Source: Chinese Health Care

In the cold winter, besides hot pot, the favorite thing is to drink soup. At night, when you go home, you can drink a bowl of hot soup. It's warm and the fatigue of a day disappears. In order to change the way to cook soup for the family, the chefs at home are also racking their brains. What soup is suitable for drinking in winter? That must be five kinds. Preventing diseases and tonifying the body is absolutely fantastic! 

These five kinds of soups are suitable for drinking in winter with different effects.

1. Tonifying Yang and Removing Cold

In cold winter, the body's Yang will be insufficient. Once out of the house, it will be cold and easy to be injured by cold evil. Some people are especially afraid of cold, cold hands and feet in winter, tired and tired, pale face, are the manifestation of Yang deficiency. Therefore, in winter, we should supplement Yang Qi properly and dispel the cold in our body in time so as not to be invaded by cold evil.

Recommended recipe: Angelica ginger mutton soup

Efficacy: This is a dietary therapy prescription in Zhang Zhongjing's Synopsis of the Golden Chamber of the Eastern Han Dynasty, especially suitable for cold winter. This medicinal diet consists of angelica, ginger and mutton. Among them, Angelica sinensis can nourish blood, its nature is warmer, and it has the effect of nourishing blood and promoting blood circulation. Ginger, as a commonly used Chinese medicine, can disperse cold in warmth and relieve surface sweating.

Mutton is a delicious food for all ages. It is warm in nature and can make up deficiency in warmth. Together, they have the functions of warming blood, dispelling cold and relieving pain. Women can drink this soup when their hands and feet are cold in winter; patients with a history of chilblain can take it before winter and prevent chilblain.

Practice: Wash mutton, remove fascia, cut into small pieces and put it in casserole; cut ginger into thin slices, wash angelica, wrap ginger and Angelica with gauze, put them in casserole together; add water to casserole, boil them in high heat first, then simmer them for about two hours. Add some salt, eat meat and drink soup.

2. Strengthening the Spleen and Nourishing the Stomach

Winter is also the season when many people suffer from stomach diseases. The cold and dry air easily makes the spleen and stomach uncomfortable and the appetite bad. Therefore, we should pay more attention to invigorating the spleen and nourishing the stomach in peacetime.

Recommended recipe: pepper pork belly soup

Efficacy: White pepper has the function of warming and dispersing cold, and pork belly nourishes stomach and invigorates stomach.

Practice: Take 15 grams of white pepper and break it into spare parts. Fresh pork belly, wash, and then put the broken white pepper into the washed pork belly, add about 20 ml of water, tighten the head and tail with thread. Cook in slow heat for 1 hour. Serve after seasoning.

3. Clearing the lung and moistening the throat

Whether it is the haze in the north or the dust in the air in the south, our respiratory system suffers a lot, especially the throat and lungs, and cough is easy in winter. Clearing the lung, moistening the throat and improving the throat are very important.

Recommended recipe: Yuzhu Shashen Pig Lung Decoction

Efficacy: Yuzhu is a kind of traditional Chinese medicine for nourishing yin. It has the function of nourishing yin, moistening dryness, nourishing body fluid and stopping thirst. It has the function of moistening lung, relieving cough and nourishing stomach and nourishing body fluid.

Practice: Wash and cut the ginseng, rinse the Yuzhu clear water, and wrap it with gauze for reserve; rinse the pig lungs with clean water and remove them after flying in boiling water; put the gauze and pig lungs in a casserole, add proper amount of water, boil over a large fire, simmer over a small fire for 1.5-2 hours, and season with salt.

4. Early stage of cold

In winter, people often catch a cold accidentally, but sneezing and runny nose are really uncomfortable. At this time, Wuhu soup will be dispatched.

Recommended recipe: Wuhu soup

Efficacy: Wuhu Decoction was invented by Li Ke, a well-known veteran Chinese medicine. It consists of ginger, jujube, onion, walnut and black bean. Ginger, can sweat away evil, drive cold from the body surface; walnut can invigorate the kidney, help the qi; jujube can nourish the stomach to nourish the stomach; black soybean into the kidney to nourish the essence, onion white hollow spicy taste, can sweat to dissolve the table, access to yang, which is also "to shape, to regulate qi". Most suitable for early winter cold and allergic rhinitis.

Practice: fresh ginger 45 grams, jujube 45 grams, jujube, break open without core removal; walnut 6, broken with shell into medicine; black soybean 30 grams, black skin yellow heart is preferred. Add about 1000 ml of water and fry for 45-60 minutes; 1-2 shallots are white, the northeastern shallots are Beijing shallots. Take the white part and remove the whiskers. Cut each into 4 sections, and then drop in the last 15 minutes.

5. Enhancing immunity

Traditional Chinese medicine believes that the lung is the main body fur, nasopharynx and throat is the door of the lungs and Fu organs. The dirty air filled with viruses, bacteria and harmful fumes not only does harm to the above organs, but also spreads the harm to the whole body through the above organs. Usually, you can drink some soup to improve immunity, and enhance the resistance of the lungs and the body.

Recommended Recipes: Ganoderma lucidum and lean meat soup

Ingredients: 12 grams of Ganoderma lucidum, 50 grams of lean pork and two fig.

Method: first slice the Ganoderma lucidum and wash it, then rinse pork lean meat and fig, then put the food in the casserole and cook in medium heat for 1~2 hours. Keep warm after ripening and eat in groups.

Reminder:

These five kinds of soups are suitable for the general population to supplement in winter, and for the special population, they vary from person to person. At the same time, attention should be paid to the control of less salt in the soup of patients with hypertension, while the gout patients should not drink the old fire soup, and those with excessive stomach acid should drink less broth.