Dryness in summer can easily lead to lung heat. These health-preserving soups can help you moisturize your lungs in one step.
Introduction: Summer is dry and hot, which can easily cause symptoms of dehydration. As autumn approaches, learning to moisturize the lungs can effectively prevent and treat lung diseases and treat coughs. Below, I will recommend some medicinal foods for nourishing the lungs, you might as well try them!
1. Adenophora and Polygonatum odoratum soup
Ingredients: 20 grams each of Adenophora and Polygonatum odorifera, 25 grams of scallions, 100 grams each of pig heart and pig lung.
Method: Wrap Adenophora and Polygonatum odorifera with gauze, put them in a stew pot with pig heart, pig lungs, and scallions. Add an appropriate amount of water and stew until the pig heart and pig lungs are cooked. Add salt to taste.
Efficacy: This prescription has the effect of nourishing yin, clearing the lungs, replenishing qi and moisturizing dryness. It is used for dry mouth, dry cough, hoarse voice, upset and thirst.
2. Nanxing Runfei Decoction
Ingredients: 12 grams of southern apricots, 9 grams of northern apricots, 4 candied dates, and 200 grams of pig lungs.
Method: Peel the southern apricots and northern apricots, wash the pig lungs and cut them into small pieces, fry them in an iron pot with a little cooking oil, add an appropriate amount of boiling water, put them in a casserole with candied dates, and cook for 1 -2 hours and it’s ready to eat.
Efficacy: It can replenish lung qi, moisturize the lungs, resolve phlegm and relieve cough. It is suitable for daily consumption in dry weather or for children with weak lung energy and prone to coughing. It can also be used to replenish the body during the recovery period of pneumonia.
3. Chicken soup with monk fruit and lily
Ingredients: 300 grams of chicken, half of monk fruit, 30 grams of dried lily, 6 red dates, green onions, ginger, and salt.
Method: Chop the chicken into sections, blanch in running water to remove the blood foam, remove and set aside; wash the mangosteen, lily, and red dates separately and set aside; add the chicken pieces, mangosteen, lily, red dates, green onions, Put the shredded ginger into the soup pot and add an appropriate amount of water. After boiling over high heat, simmer over low heat for 2 hours. When drinking, add salt to taste.
Efficacy: Lily can moisten the lungs and relieve cough, calm the heart and mind, and replenish qi. Luo Han Guo not only clears away heat and moisturizes the lungs, resolves phlegm and relieves cough, nourishes the liver and spleen, lowers blood pressure, but also prevents and treats respiratory tract. Infectious and anti-cancer effects. Ripe Luo Han Guo and lily are used together to make chicken soup. It not only tastes sweet, but is also very useful for post-autumn women to replenish their body functions.
4. Boiled pig lungs with coix kernels
Ingredients: 1 pig lung, 30 grams of coix kernels, appropriate seasoning.
Method: Wash the coix kernels and mash them into powder. Wash the pig's lungs. Pour clean water into the pig's lung tube while washing. Gently tap the pig's lungs with your hands, pour out the dirty water, and pour again. Do this several times until the lungs turn white. Add an appropriate amount of water to the pot, add coix kernels and pig lungs and cook them together. Boil over high heat first to remove the foam on the soup surface, then cook over low heat until the pig lungs are very rotten. Season to taste and serve.
Efficacy: Refreshing the lungs and relieving cough, nourishing the lungs and clearing away heat, strengthening the spleen and stomach. It has the functions of strengthening the spleen and lungs, diuresis and dehumidification.
5. Lily, red dates and ginkgo soup
Ingredients: 50 grams of lily, 10 red dates, 50g of ginkgo, 300g of beef, two slices of ginger, and a little salt.
Method: Wash fresh beef in boiling water and cut into thin slices. Peel the ginkgo shells and soak them in water to remove the outer film. Wash the lilies, red dates and ginger, remove the cores of the red dates and peel the ginger. Add an appropriate amount of clean water to the clay pot, bring to a boil, add lily, red dates, ginkgo and ginger slices, simmer over medium heat until the lilies are cooked, add beef, continue simmering until the beef is cooked, add a little salt and serve.
Efficacy: Nourish blood and nourish yin, moisturize and nourish the skin, moisten the lungs and replenish qi, relieve asthma and astringent essence.
6. Stewed chicken with yam
Ingredients: 1 hen, appropriate amounts of yam, polygonatum odorifera, and adenophora.
Method: Wash the hen and put it into the pot. Add moderate water and bring it to a boil. Wash the yam, polygonatum odorifera and adenophora root, wrap them in homemade cloth and put them in the pot. Add onions, ginger, and seasonings and cook slowly over low heat. When the chicken is cooked, add salt and MSG and enjoy.
Efficacy: relieve cough, moisturize the lungs, strengthen the spleen and replenish qi. It is suitable for patients with cough, hemoptysis, dry mouth, night sweats, tuberculosis and other diseases.