Herbal soup recipe

In traditional Chinese medicine, some medicinal herbs are often used to regulate the patient's body or treat existing diseases. Of course, medicinal herbs can not only be used as medicine, but in daily life, people can also consume them through certain methods to achieve health-care effects. The most common way to use medicinal herbs in the diet is to use them to make soup. Below, I will introduce to you several soups made with medicinal herbs.

1. American Ginseng and Black Chicken Soup

Ingredients: half a black chicken, 200 grams of pork bones, 5 grams of American ginseng, about 20 wolfberries, three pitted red dates, and appropriate amount of salt.

Method: 1. Bring a pot of water to a boil, blanch the black chicken and pork bones until they change color (you can add a spoonful of cooking wine), remove them, rinse with cold water to remove the floating foam and set aside; 2. Pour an appropriate amount of water into the casserole, put in the blanched black chicken and pork bones, then add American ginseng, wolfberry, and red dates, bring to a boil over high heat, then simmer on low heat for 1.5-2 hours, turn off the heat, skim off the floating oil, and adjust the salt.

Efficacy: American ginseng has the effects of clearing heat, detoxifying, nourishing the heart and replenishing qi, while black chicken has the effects of replenishing blood and kidney.

2. Codonopsis and Amomum Pork Tripe Soup

Ingredients: 150 grams of pork tripe, 15 grams of Codonopsis pilosula, 20 grams of galangal, 5 grams of Amomum villosum, 20 grams of ginger, and appropriate amount of oil and salt.

Preparation method: remove the fat from the pig's stomach, wash it, cut it into pieces and set aside; wash Amomum villosum and Codonopsis pilosula separately, grind galangal and ginger into puree, put them into a stewing pot together with the pig's stomach, add appropriate amount of water, cover the stewing pot, stew it over low heat for 2 hours, and then season it before drinking.

Efficacy: Regulates qi and warms the spleen.

3. Adenophora Heart and Lung Soup

Ingredients: 15g each of Adenophora Root and Polygonatum Odorifera, 1 pig heart and 1 pig lung, 25g green onion, and 3g fine salt.

Preparation method: First, clean the Adenophora Root and Polygonatum odoratum, rinse them with clean water, and put them into a gauze bag; rinse the pig heart and lungs, and squeeze out the blood; then put the Adenophora Root, Polygonatum odoratum, pig heart, lungs, green onions and appropriate amount of clean water into the pot, bring to a boil over high heat, then simmer over low heat for about 1 hour. When the pig heart and lungs are cooked through, add salt.

Efficacy: Nourishes the lungs and relieves cough, nourishes the stomach and produces body fluids, nourishes the heart and calms the mind. It is suitable for the elderly with lung deficiency cough, autumn dry cough, or blood in sputum, thirst due to loss of body fluid, severe stomach heat, restlessness and insomnia at night, frequent dreams, and dry and hard stools.