Winter flower and white fungus soup is the "nectar" for treating tracheitis

Tracheitis is a very common disease in life. Its main symptoms are long-term coughing, sputum or wheezing. I remember when I was a kid my neighbor had tracheitis. He was seen coughing constantly all day long, and when his condition worsened he couldn't breathe and was in great pain. So what should you do if you unfortunately get bronchitis? Just drink some winter flower and white fungus soup.

Why is coltsfoot so effective in treating bronchitis? There is actually a little story about this. A long time ago, there lived a father and a daughter on the Red Mountain in Yulin Village. The daughter was named Donghua. The mother died of complications during childbirth, leaving the father and daughter to depend on each other. Donghua is sixteen years old. She is very beautiful and smart, and she is also a well-known filial daughter. But due to the hardships of life. My old father, who has been working hard for many years, suffers from a cough. Donghua looked for famous doctors around, worshipped Bodhisattvas from all directions, and received many treatments, but her father's condition could not be alleviated. We cannot watch the condition continue to worsen. There was no other way, so Donghua decided to go to Yaowang Mountain in Guanzhong to seek medical treatment for her father. The old Taoist priest at Yaowang Temple prescribed her a folk remedy that was both economical and practical. It used the spicy hemp seeds grown in Donghua's hometown, known as Jiaotinglizi in Chinese medicine, to eliminate phlegm and treat cough. After returning home, Donghua immediately ran to the hillside behind Wujialiang to pick spicy hemp seeds. When she got home, she boiled the decoction for her father to take. That night, the old man passed a lot of pus and phlegm, and his asthma was relieved. The next day, she went up the mountain to collect herbs again. Due to excessive fatigue and anxiety, Donghua suddenly felt a fishy smell in her heart while weeding. She couldn't help but spit out a mouthful of blood, which sprayed on the yellow soil. However, because he was concerned about his father's illness, he continued to pull out the weeds and destroy the seeds. For so many days, blood was spilled all over the nearby land, and even the stones turned red.

Just when his old father recovered from his illness, Donghua passed away. People admired her and buried Donghua at the place where she vomited blood during her lifetime. In the spring of the following year, at the place where Donghua died, wherever her blood was shed, a kind of grass shaped like a lotus leaf grew. Strangely, even in the cold winter, it still thrives and even blooms small pink and slightly purple flowers in the dead of winter. It defies the frost and snow and is not afraid of the severe cold. What's more amazing is that this flower has magical effects on coughs and sputum. So, everyone believed that this was the regeneration of winter flower and named this flower winter flower. Coincidentally, when Tu Zongjun, the governor of Yansui, was in charge of the construction of Zhenbeitai and Kuangong City, he heard this legend many times. So he ordered his soldiers to transplant a large number of winter flowers growing around Hongshan to Kuangong City and renamed it Kuangong Flower.

The story is just a legend, but what cannot be denied is its good effect in treating tracheitis and cough with phlegm. Especially when combined with Tremella fuciformis to make soup, the effect is even better. So how do you make this coltsfoot and tremella soup? You need 15 grams of coltsfoot, 30 grams of tremella, a snow pear and 20 grams of rock sugar. First, wrap the coltsfoot with gauze, then peel the snow pear and cut it into slices. Then put it into a casserole together with white fungus and rock sugar, add appropriate amount of water and stew it. After the water boils for 10 minutes, take out the medicine bag. Just take it.

Why is coltsfoot and tremella soup so effective in treating bronchitis? First, let’s talk about coltsfoot. Coltsfoot flowers can not only relieve coughs, but also have the effects of removing phlegm, relieving bronchial spasms, and stimulating breathing. They are especially effective in treating cough, phlegm and asthma caused by acute and chronic bronchitis. They are the main medicine in this medicinal diet. Tremella also has the effect of moistening the lungs and relieving asthma, and is a ministerial medicine.

Everyone is familiar with Tremella fuciformis because it is a food that often appears on every dining table. Tremella is also called white fungus, snow fungus, and silver ear. It has always been known as the "king of fungi". Royal aristocrats of all dynasties regarded Tremella fuciformis as a "longevity product" and "elixir of life".

In fact, regarding the nourishing effect of Tremella fuciformis, Zhang Hongan’s "Notes on Materia Medica Poems and Antidotes" said, "Tremella fuciformis has the moisture of Ophiopogon japonicus without its coldness, and the sweetness of Polygonatum odoratum without its greasiness. It is truly an essential product for moistening the lungs and nourishing yin, which is beyond the reach of ginseng, deer antler, and Yanxuanwo." Because of its lung-moisturizing effect, Tremella fuciformis is the best choice for preventing and treating bronchitis. In addition, from the perspective of Chinese medicine's five-color health-preserving, white foods are good for the lungs, and Tremella fuciformis clearly meets this standard. Therefore, Tremella has a good therapeutic effect on those with yin deficiency and excess fire, especially chronic bronchitis in the elderly.

Make yourself a pot of winter flower and white fungus soup every day. It is delicious and can maintain your health at the same time. Why not do it?