What are the soups that can moisten the lungs and relieve coughs in autumn?

Drinking soup is the best way to relieve cough in autumn. Do you know which soups can relieve cough and moisten the lungs? The following soups are very simple to make. Just follow the recipes and even a novice can make them delicious!

1. Dried cabbage, monk fruit and pork bone soup

Ingredients: 400 grams of pork bones. Appropriate amount of cabbage, monk fruit, candied dates, almonds, tangerine peel, salt, 3 slices of ginger, and water.

Method: Wash and cut the pork bones into pieces, put them into water and boil them to remove the blood. After a lot of bubbles appear, continue to cook for a while, then scoop it out and rinse it with running water for later use. Wash the dried cabbage with clean water and soak it for about half an hour. Pour an appropriate amount of water into the casserole, add the washed pork bones and ginger slices, and cook over high heat. After the water boils, pour in the dried cabbage, monk fruit and candied dates, almonds, tangerine peel and ginger. Bring to a boil and then simmer on low heat for 2 hours. Finally, add appropriate amount of salt to season.

Efficacy: Luo Han Guo has the effects of clearing heat and cooling blood, promoting fluid production and relieving cough, lubricating the intestines and relieving constipation, rejuvenating the skin and improving complexion, moistening the lungs and resolving phlegm. It can be used for symptoms such as dry cough, sore throat and aphonia, dry intestine and constipation. When the weather is dry, it is best to use dried cabbage to make soup. Because dried cabbage can nourish the heart and regulate blood, relieve restlessness and quench thirst, and has the effects of eliminating dryness and heat, clearing the stomach and intestines, and relieving gas and digestion.

2. Olive, radish and lean meat soup

Ingredients: 250 grams of green olives, 500-1000 grams of white radish, 150 grams of lean pork, and 2-3 slices of ginger.

Preparation method: Wash the green olives, radish, and lean pork with clean water, cut the white radish into pieces, and do not need to cut the lean pork whole. Then put them into a clay pot together with the ginger, add 2500 ml of clean water (about 10 bowls of water), boil it with high heat, then simmer it with low heat for about 2 hours, and add appropriate amount of salt and cooking oil.

Efficacy: As the saying goes, green olives are the "Qinglong Soup" for treating throat diseases, and white radish is the "Baihu Soup" for treating throat diseases. Green olives and radish stewed with lean pork as a medicine can treat acute pharyngitis, influenza, common colds, tonsillitis, bronchitis, side pain caused by liver qi stagnation, and food stagnation.

3. Fig and pig lung soup

Ingredients: 8 figs, about 350 grams of pig lung (about a quarter), 1 slice of tangerine peel, 2 slices of ginger, and salt.

Preparation: After cleaning the pig lungs, put them into boiling water and cook for 5 minutes, then remove them and set aside; soak the figs for half an hour and set aside; slice the washed pig lungs, add figs, tangerine peel, ginger slices, and appropriate amount of water, and heat them under high pressure; simmer over high heat for half an hour, then remove from the pot and add appropriate amount of salt, and serve.

Efficacy: Figs nourish the throat and lungs, nourish the stomach and intestines, reduce swelling and detoxify, and have a therapeutic effect on symptoms such as sore throat, dry cough and constipation.