Text/Yangcheng Evening News all-media reporter Lin Qingqing
Li Dong "make up for the winter". Lin Juxuan, deputy chief physician of the Department of Traditional Chinese Medicine of Guangdong Provincial People's Hospital, said that Chinese medicine pays attention to "nourishing yang in spring and summer, nourishing yin in autumn and winter", and appropriate supplementation is provided while nourishing yin and dryness, which can prepare for the winter with peace of mind.
At this time, how should the elderly in the family drink soup? Lin Juxuan designed a "black bean chestnut red date pot pond lice soup" suitable for the elderly to adjust and prevent diseases and strengthen the body.

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Tonic Yiyang "Elderly Health Soup"
Black bean is a kind of soybean, which is rich in protein, a variety of vitamins and calcium, iron and other nutrients, because of its black color, according to the chinese medicine theory of black kidneys, so people with kidney deficiency can eat black beans. In addition, black beans contain the highest content of vitamins B group and E group, which also has the effect of blindness and black hair, making the skin white and tender.
Chestnuts are very rich in nutritional value and have a sweet taste. From the perspective of traditional Chinese medicine, the temperament is warm and sweet, and it has a certain effect of nourishing the stomach and spleen, replenishing qi and nourishing the blood, strengthening the muscles and bones, dispelling wind and dehumidification. It can improve joint soreness caused by rheumatism and rheumatoid.
Red jujube has the effect of nourishing the stomach, strengthening the spleen, benefiting blood, nourishing and strengthening the body. Its vitamin content is very high, has the reputation of "natural vitamin pills", and has the effect of nourishing yin and yang. As a good tonic, red dates are known as "eclipse three dates, immortality".
Pond lice is catfish, it is rich in nutrition, but also has medicinal value, often eat on the body has a good tonic effect, it has the effect of tonifying The Yang, eliminating edema, the body is weak, malnourished people can often eat. Traditional Chinese medicine diet therapy believes that commonly used pond lice fish to cook soup or boil porridge to eat, for liver and kidney deficiency, waist and knee pain, impotence, premature ejaculation symptoms also have a certain alleviating effect.
The black beans in this soup recipe can nourish blood and replenish weakness, chestnuts strengthen muscles and bones, pond lice nourish yin to supplement kidneys, and red dates to nourish blood and spleen. This soup can be used for tinnitus caused by kidney deficiency, kidney qi weakness, waist and legs, weakness and thrombocytopenia, and the elderly can drink more in autumn and winter.
Black bean chestnut red date pot pond lice soup
【Ingredients】 80 grams of black beans, 200 grams of fresh chestnut meat, 5 red dates, 600 grams of pond lice, 100 grams of pork ribs, 3 slices of ginger.
【Preparation】 Wash each ingredient; soak the black beans overnight; wash and pit the red dates; wash and slaughter the pond lice, drain the water, then raise the oil pot, put it into the pond lice on both sides and fry until yellowish; pour all the ingredients into the clay pot together, add about 2500 ml of water (about 10 bowls of water), boil over low heat and then change to simmer for about 1.5 hours, add an appropriate amount of salt to taste when drinking, and then warm it. This is the amount of 3-4 people.
【Effect】Nourish yin and nourish blood, tonify kidneys and strengthen the body.