The saying goes: "Food supplements are better than medicine supplements." In spring, the weather is warm during the day and cold at night, and people's immune system is relatively low. It is especially important to pay attention to health and prevent diseases. So why not make some nourishing herbal soups in spring? Eating the right herbal soups can help boost your immune system and make your body healthier. Let's find out together!
Nourishing Herbal Soups
1. Snow Pear Tremella Red Date Lotus Seed Soup
Ingredients: 1 snow pear, 30g tremella, 20g lotus seeds, 5 red dates.
Method: Peel and cut the snow pear into pieces. Soak and wash the tremella, lotus seeds, and red dates. Put the snow pear, tremella, red dates, lotus seeds, and rock sugar into a pot. Add enough water (approximately 2-3 times the volume of all ingredients). Bring to a boil over high heat, then simmer over low heat for 1 hour.
Effects: Snow pear tremella red date lotus seed soup has the benefits of moisturizing the lungs, relieving cough, aiding digestion, invigorating the spleen, and nourishing yin.
2. Pork Stomach Atractylodes Soup
Ingredients: 1 pork stomach, 60g atractylodes, 45g ginger, 15g pepper, salt to taste.
Method: Wash the pork stomach, remove the fat, blanch it in boiling water, then let it dry. Put atractylodes, ginger, and pepper inside the pork stomach, sew it up, and make small holes on the outside. Put it in a pot with enough water, bring to a boil over high heat, then simmer over low heat for 2 hours. Season with salt. Cut the pork stomach into pieces and serve with the soup.
Effects: This soup has the effects of warming the middle and dispelling cold, invigorating the spleen, and replenishing qi. It is especially suitable for people with deficient spleen and stomach.
3. Sea Cucumber and Chinese Wolfberry Soup
Ingredients: sea cucumber, Chinese wolfberry, codonopsis pilosula, salt, monosodium glutamate.
Method: Soak the sea cucumber in water until soft, then cut into pieces. Blanch it in boiling water, then let it dry. Slice the codonopsis pilosula and decoct it in water to extract concentrated medicinal juice. Wash the Chinese wolfberry. Add the sea cucumber and codonopsis pilosula juice to the pot with appropriate amount of water. Bring to a boil over high heat, then simmer over low heat until cooked. Add Chinese wolfberry, salt, and monosodium glutamate to taste.
Effects: Sea cucumber nourishes yin and replenishes the kidneys, Chinese wolfberry nourishes essence and improves vision, and codonopsis pilosula generates fluids and relieves thirst. This soup is suitable for people with lung and kidney yin deficiency, restlessness, dry cough, and fatigue.
4. Chinese Yam Red Date Congee
Ingredients: 25g red dates, 25g Chinese yam, 100g glutinous rice, sugar to taste.
Method: Soak the red dates in warm water until soft, then wash. Wash the glutinous rice. Peel and wash the Chinese yam, then cut into small pieces. Cook the red dates, glutinous rice, and Chinese yam together to make a savory congee. Add sugar to taste before serving.
Effects: This congee has the effects of nourishing deficiency and replenishing qi, invigorating the spleen and stomach, calming the mind, whitening and moisturizing the skin, and dispelling dampness.
Spring Health Tips
1. Drink plenty of water every day
Drinking plenty of water every day can enhance the circulation of the body's systems, relieve tension in the body, and improve alertness and energy consumption.
2. Thoroughly clean your surroundings to avoid allergies
Spring is the season of allergies, respiratory diseases, and infectious diseases, so it is necessary to do a thorough spring cleaning to prevent them.
3. Comb your hair in the morning and soak your feet at night
"Yang Sheng Lun" says: "In the spring, comb your hair 100-200 times in the morning, and at night, soak your feet in hot water with a pinch of salt added, washing from the knees down to the feet to dispel wind toxins and foot odor." This means that combing your hair in the morning and soaking your feet in diluted saltwater at night in spring can promote the circulation of qi and blood in the body and promote health and disease prevention.
4. Go to bed late and get up early, avoid staying in bed
In spring, it is important to maintain the habit of "going to bed late and getting up early" for better health.
