In winter, the climate is dry, and people are prone to symptoms such as coughing and dry throat if they don't pay attention to it. What should we do at this time? Why not try Mai Dong?
Wheat Dong is used as medicine to dissolve phlegm and relieve cough
Mai Dong is also called Mai Men Dong, is a small tubular root on the fibrous root of the large-leaved Mai Dong of the Lily family perennial herbaceous plant along the step grass or the large-leaf wheat Dong of the genus Mai Dong, with sweet taste, slightly bitter, slightly cold in nature, and enters the heart, lungs and stomach meridians.
Mai Dong can nourish yin and moisten the lungs, dissolve phlegm and relieve cough, so it is often used to treat yin deficiency and lung dryness, dry cough with less phlegm, or cough with thick phlegm, as well as vomiting blood, hemoptysis and other symptoms.
Zhang Zhongjing recorded in "Jin Kui Yaolu" that Maimendong soup can cure "the fire is reversed, and the throat is unfavorable", and it has a very good effect on relieving the feeling of dry throat and burning sensation.
Many people get hot in winter, manifested as dry throat, dry mouth at night, and even have to get up to drink water, eat some spicy and hot food on sore throat, and often tonsil inflammation, and dry stool, body irritability, these are all indications for wheat winter.
In daily life, when these symptoms of dryness and heat appear, soaking in water with Mai Dong can play a certain role in alleviating the situation, or eating some Mai Dong medicinal diet can also nourish yin and moisturize dryness, and nourish the stomach.
However, it should be noted that people with weak spleen and stomach, frequent cold diarrhea, and cold hands and feet are not suitable for eating wheat winter.
Moisturize and clear heat, you can drink more wheat soup
Mai Dong can make tea or stew soup, and the following are two recommended wheat soup suitable for winter for everyone——
1. Nourish yin and moisten lung soup
Ingredients: 5 grams of Ophiopogon vulgaris, 3 grams of Pseudostellaria radix, 5 grams of Polygonatum japonica, 250 grams of fresh yam, 2 grams of bellflower, 50 grams of red beans, white fungus and rock sugar.
Method:
Wash the yam, cut into pieces, soak the white fungus until soft and set aside; Put the prince ginseng, jade bamboo and wheat dong into a filter bag, add water and boil for about 1 hour, and the soup is set aside; put the red beans into the pot, add water and soak for 1 hour, turn on high heat and boil, turn to low heat and cook for 10 minutes, turn off the heat and simmer for about 1 hour;
Then turn to high heat, add yam and white fungus, bring to a boil, turn to low heat, about 5 minutes, turn off the heat and simmer for about 30 minutes.
Efficacy: Nourish yin and clear heat, nourish qi and nourish blood. It is suitable for people with dry mouth, heat and sweating, and dry stool.
2. Yuzhu wheat winter duck soup
Ingredients: 60 grams of Yuzhu, 30 grams of wheat Dong, about 400 grams of half duck, 150 grams of lean pork, 4 slices of ginger.
Method: Wash the above materials, slice the jade bamboo, soak the wheat dong in water for a short time, cut the duck into pieces for later use, and then put them into the pot together, add an appropriate amount of water to boil together, boil over high heat and then use a simmer for about 2 hours, and finally season with an appropriate amount of salt.
Efficacy: This soup has the effect of nourishing yin and moistening dryness, clearing lung heat, and quenching thirst, especially suitable for people with yin deficiency and thirst.
(Health Talk)