Winter climate is dry and easily leads to colds, often accompanied by symptoms of cough. In addition to medication, traditional Chinese medicine often uses snow soup to treat excessive phlegm or persistent coughing, as well as dry cough without phlegm. So how should snow soup be made?
[Name]
Snow Soup
[Ingredients]
30g of jellyfish, 15g of fresh water chestnuts
[Method]
Soak 30g of jellyfish in warm water, wash and chop it; peel 15g of fresh water chestnuts. Put them together in a pot, add an appropriate amount of water, and simmer over low heat for one hour. Drink it once or in multiple servings. It can treat indigestion, gastrointestinal stagnation, pale complexion and weight loss, diarrhea, and other symptoms. Jellyfish is a type of marine animal, with a salty taste and neutral nature. It has the functions of clearing heat, resolving phlegm, promoting digestion, and moistening the intestines. It can treat cough with phlegm and wheezing, distension and fullness in the abdomen, constipation, swelling, and other symptoms. Water chestnuts are a plant of the sedge family. They are the tubers of the water chestnut. They have a sweet taste and cold nature. They can be used to treat fever with thirst, jaundice, and red eyes.
[Efficacy]
Nourishing yin and clearing heat, moisturizing the lungs and stopping cough. It is used for cough with internal heat and yellow and sticky phlegm, dry mouth and throat, as well as hypertension and cardiovascular diseases.
[Suitable Population]
Snow soup is suitable for patients with cough with internal heat, yellow and sticky phlegm, dry mouth and throat, as well as hypertension and cardiovascular diseases.
[Introduction to Ingredients]
Jellyfish: clears heat, soothes liver, resolves phlegm, and moistens intestines. It is used for lung heat cough, phlegm heat asthma, food stagnation and distension, constipation, and hypertension.
Water chestnuts: clears heat and relieves thirst, diuretic and phlegm-resolving, and lowers blood pressure. It is used for heat injury with thirst, sore throat, oral inflammation, damp-heat jaundice, hypertension, difficult urination, measles, lung heat cough, silicosis, bleeding hemorrhoids.
[Treatment Case]
Chen X, female, 6 years old, came to our hospital for treatment in December 1993. She reported having had fever and coughing up blood in September, and was diagnosed with pneumonia. Examination of the phlegm revealed the presence of dark red blood clots, accompanied by anemia. She continued to have intermittent attacks, sometimes mild and sometimes severe. In January 1994, hemosiderin-laden macrophages were found in the phlegm, and chest X-ray revealed extensive interstitial fibrosis. She was given a herbal medicine for nourishing qi and blood, activating blood circulation, and resolving stasis, and also took "snow soup". After more than a year of treatment, the attacks significantly reduced, the lung lesions improved significantly, and the cough and hemoptysis stopped.
[Nutritional Value of Water Chestnuts]
Water chestnuts contain a higher amount of phosphorus compared to other tuberous vegetables, which promotes growth and development and maintains physiological functions. It has great benefits for the development of teeth and bones, and can also promote the metabolism of sugar, fat, and protein in the body and regulate acid-base balance. Therefore, water chestnuts are suitable for children to consume.
In studies of water chestnuts in the UK, a substance called "water chestnutin" was found to have inhibitory effects on Staphylococcus aureus, Escherichia coli, Enterobacter aerogenes, and Pseudomonas aeruginosa, and it also has a certain effect on lowering blood pressure. This substance also has preventive and therapeutic effects on tumors.
Water chestnuts are tender and juicy, and can treat symptoms of heat injury with thirst in febrile diseases. They have a certain auxiliary therapeutic effect on polyuria in diabetes.
Water chestnut decoction can diuretically eliminate urine and has a certain therapeutic effect on patients with urinary tract infection. It can be used as a therapeutic food for patients with urinary tract infection. In recent years, it has been found that water chestnuts contain antiviral substances that can inhibit meningococcus and influenza viruses, and can be used to prevent the spread of meningitis and influenza.
