Monk fruit is the dried fruit of the monk fruit of the gourd family. In autumn, the fruit is harvested when it changes from tender green to dark green, and after a few days of drying, it is dried at low temperatures. Luo Han Guo, also known as La Han Guo, is mainly produced in Guangdong and Guangxi, and is a unique fruit in southern China. When selecting, it is better to be round, large, solid, shaky, and yellow-brown.
Luo Han Guo is sweet and cool, and belongs to the lungs and large intestine meridians. Function clears heat and moisturizes the lungs, opens the throat, and smooths the bowel and laxative. It is used for lung heat and dry cough, sore throat, loss of sound, dry bowel and constipation.
Monk fruit has a special sweetness, sweeter than licorice, and is added as a sweetener to various foods. In addition, monk fruit is also an excellent refreshing drink, which can not only refresh the mind, but also prevent respiratory infections.
Modern research shows that monk fruit is good for the liver, diabetes, cancer, immune system and more.
The toxic side effects of monk fruit are very few, whether it is medicinal or edible, it is worth in-depth study and further promotion.
Recommended Diet:
Monk fruit fig tea
Ingredients: 20 grams each of monk fruit and fig.
Preparation: Slice and bracing in boiling water for 15 minutes.
Serving Method: Substitute tea.
Benefits: Clear lungs, relieve cough, moisturize intestines and laxative. It can protect the throat, teachers and actors can often drink and take; the treatment of hoarseness caused by wind and heat on the lungs has a good effect.
Monk fruit lean broth
Ingredients: a quarter of monk fruit, 500 grams of lean pork, 1 small piece of tangerine peel.
Method:
1. After washing the lean meat, cut into pieces and blanch water, wash the monk fruit, and soak the tangerine peel with water.
2. Put the lean meat, monk fruit and tangerine peel into the pot, add water to an appropriate amount and cook the soup.
3. Add salt to taste.
Serving instructions: Eat meat and drink soup.
Effect: Clears and repairs weakness, moisturizes lungs, relieves cough and phlegm. It is suitable for long-term cough and lung deficiency fever or tuberculosis cough, constipation and other symptoms.
Luo Han Guo pork lung soup
Ingredients: 1/2 monk fruit, 250 g of pig lung.
1. Cut the pig lungs into pieces, squeeze and wash the foam by hand and wash.
2. Put the pork lungs in a pot with monk fruit, add water to an appropriate amount, and cook the soup.
3. Season with ginger, green onion, salt, etc.
Directions: Serve with a meal.
Effect: Moisturize the intestines and clear heat, suppress cough and phlegm. It is suitable for dry mouth and throat, lung fever cough, whooping cough and pediatric sputum nucleus (i.e., cervical lymphadenitis) and other symptoms.
Author: Li Yingqiong (The First Affiliated Hospital of Guangzhou University of Chinese Medicine)
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