Author: Huang Suiping, M.D., Chief Chinese Physician, Professor, Doctoral Supervisor, Postdoctoral Co-supervisor, Guangdong Famous Traditional Chinese Medicine, is currently the Administrative Director of the Department of Spleen and Gastroenterology of Guangdong Provincial Hospital of Traditional Chinese Medicine.
As the saying goes, "three points of food, seven points of drink", "it is better to eat no meat, not to eat without soup", "autumn and winter to make up for easy old age". On the dinner table of Cantonese people, there is often a bowl of beautiful soup, and the soup is one of the food cultures passed down from generation to generation by the old Cantonese. Cantonese-style soup is all-encompassing, paying attention to taste, but also taking into account the characteristics of the four hours to add seasonal health elements. For example, in autumn, the weather is relatively dry, and the soup often adds a moist element. Today I recommend two soups suitable for autumn.
01 The condiment of Cantonese soup - dates
Dates belong to the dried fruit category, use the date cutter to cut the jujube once, so that it is easy to absorb sugar, and then put into the pot with white sugar to cook, sun-dried, it becomes the usual eating dates. According to the moisture from more to less, dates can be divided into: Beijing-style dates, Hui-style dates and Gui-style dates. Among them, The Beijing-style dates are the softest, and the Gui-style dates are the hardest. According to the place of origin, dates can be divided into: Suizhou dates and Wuzhou dates. Among them, Suizhou golden dates are famous for their "cherry blossom color, transparent core, sweet honey, and crisp sand".
Dates taste very sweet, can be eaten directly, since ancient times there has been a habit of taking a bitter mouth medicine after eating a date to relieve the bitterness. Nowadays, dates are mostly used as condiments.
Dates as a condiment is often used in soup, for Lao Guang, a good soup is not only fragrant, fresh, but also sweet, which makes dates become the soup material necessary for most Cantonese soups, whether it is salty or sweet, adding a jujube soup as if it has the soul of Cantonese soup. In addition, dates can also be used to make tea, with a fresh aroma of dates.
Honey jujube is also often used as rice dumpling filling, and honey jujube rice dumplings occupy half of the Dragon Boat Festival. The so-called "half two glutinous rice and one date, three rice dumpling leaves and two strands of rope", this is the color and fragrance that the people pursue when wrapping rice dumplings, and it is also another kind of "poetry and far away" of life.
Chinese medicine believes that the jujube is flat, sweet, in addition to tonifying qi and blood, jujube also has the effect of tonifying the spleen, moisturizing the lungs and intestines, and eating dates in moderation can nourish the spleen and stomach, and can also prevent or improve the dryness of the human lungs and large intestines in autumn. Modern scientific research has found that jujube has many health benefits such as improving human immunity, fighting cancer, preventing osteoporosis and anemia, enhancing appetite, beauty and beauty.
However, dates have a high sugar content, diabetic patients or phlegm wet constitution of the population, it is not recommended to eat more.
‖ Dietary remedies are recommended
Southern apricot date pork rib soup
Ingredients: 10 g of southern almonds, 2 dates, 500 g of pork ribs, 3 slices of ginger (for 2 people).
Directions: Wash the southern almonds and dates, wash the pork ribs and cut into pieces and blanch, add water to the above ingredients and cook them slowly until the ribs are cooked, then add salt to an appropriate amount.
Effect: Tonify the lungs and spleen, moisturize and dry.
Suitable for people: dry lungs and cough, common dry cough, dry nose, dry throat, dry mouth, dry stool and dry tongue and other symptoms.
Southern almonds are flat, sweet, return to the lungs, stomach meridians, long in running the lungs, coughing and asthma, moisturizing the intestines and laxatives; honey dates tonic spleen, moisturizing lungs and intestines; both and pork bone soup, can supplement the lungs and spleen, raw and dry, suitable for dry lungs and cough people diet therapy, but also suitable for autumn general population health care consumption.
02 Exotic soup - seabed coconut
Undersea coconuts are a great choice for soups in autumn.
The seabed coconut is not born on the seabed, but is the fruit of palm plants that grow in the primeval forests of Thailand, and most of the seabed coconuts on the market are now from Thailand. The origin of the name of the seabed coconut, the legend is that in Southeast Asia, someone picked up this product at the seaside, thinking that it was the fruit of the plant on the seabed, and there are many similarities with the local coconut, so it is called the submarine coconut, also known as sugar palm.
The "Chinese Materia Medica" records that "brown cold, can clear heat, eliminate phlegm, cough, so hot cough should be eaten"; "Yunnan Materia Medica" said that the seabed coconut "cures cold and cough"; "Simple Unilateral" also introduces that the use of seabed coconut alone can "clear up phlegm, sharp pharynx, cure wind and heat". Modern scientific research has found that brown fruits do have expectorant and antitussive effects, and the expectorant effect is stronger than antitussive. Therefore, people who cough and cough yellow phlegm have wind fever or lung fever, and can use the seabed coconut soup to eat therapy.
At the end of summer and the beginning of autumn, there is still the summer heat, coupled with the gradual emergence of autumn dryness. Autumn main lung, so this period is easy to be invaded by the evil of dry heat lung guard, outpatient clinics can see many colds or cough and phlegm patients, these conditions of home food therapy can use the seabed coconut soup, for prevention and treatment can be. It should be noted that people with cold coconuts on the seabed and cold spleen and stomach should use less or not.
Modern scientific research has found that seabed coconut is rich in amino acids, containing 17 kinds of amino acids, of which 6 are essential for the human body. Therefore, there is a basis for the seabed coconut as a natural nutritional health food.
Undersea coconut silver ear Sydney lily sugar water
Ingredients: 50 g of seabed coconut, 1 white fungus, 1 sydney pear, 1 fresh lily (for 2 people).
Method: Wash the herbs, soak the white fungus in advance, soak the rest of the materials slightly, cut the sydney pear into pieces, put the above materials into the pot, turn the heat to a low heat and simmer for about 1 hour, you can add an appropriate amount of rock sugar to taste.
Effect: Nourish yin and clear heat, moisturize the lungs and relieve cough.
Suitable for people: yin deficiency lung dry fever, common cough, cough yellow phlegm, red tongue and less moss and other symptoms.
Seabed coconut cold, long in heat, phlegm, cough, white fungus can nourish the yin lungs, laxative, Sydney moisturize the lungs, cough and phlegm, lily nourish yin moisturizing lungs, clear heart and calm. The above materials play a role in clearing heat and dissolving phlegm, moisturizing the lungs and suppressing cough, and are suitable for people with yin deficiency and lung dryness and heat.
[Source: Huang Suiping said spleen and stomach]