Spring is the season of high incidence of colds and coughs, if you are often plagued by colds and coughs, you may wish to drink more soup to moisturize the lungs, which not only helps to suppress cough, but also helps to prevent colds. So which soups help nourish the lungs?
Moisturize the lungs and relieve cough by drinking 5 soups
1. Almond pork lung soup
Ingredients: 10 g almonds, 250 g pig lung, ginger, ginseng, salt to taste.
Directions: Wash and cut the pig lungs into chunks. After washing the almonds, put them in a casserole dish with pork lung, ginger, ginseng and salt, add water and bring to a boil and simmer over low heat for two hours.
Efficacy: Cough and phlegm, thirst, laxative, especially beneficial for patients who often suffer from respiratory diseases.
2. Sand ginseng lily lung soup
Ingredients: 15 grams of northern sand ginseng, 30 grams of lilies, 5 figs, 18 grams of lean pork, 1 slice of tangerine peel.
Directions: First wash the figs, half-cut; wash the lean pork, fly water, northern sand ginseng, tangerine peel, lilies washed; put all the ingredients together into the boiling water, continue to simmer for about two hours, add a little salt to taste, you can drink.
Efficacy: Northern sand ginseng, lily and fig have the effect of nourishing yin and moisturizing the lungs, moisturizing the throat, plus the lean meat of the pig and the tangerine peel of the spleen and dry and humidified phlegm, which can moisturize the throat, protect the vocal cords, smooth stool, and prevent hemorrhoids.
3. Snow ear duck kidney soup
Ingredients: 20 grams of snow ear, 3 to 4 duck kidneys, 200 grams of lean pork, 3 slices of ginger.
Directions: Soak the snow ear and tear it into small flowers; wash the duck kidneys, soak them in warm water, cut into thick slices; wash the lean pork and cut into pieces. Together with ginger, add 2000 ml of water (about 8 bowls), boil over low heat and change to simmer for about 1 and a half hours, then salt.
Efficacy: Snow ear can treat palpitations and insomnia, neurasthenia, moisturizing the skin, fatigue cough, lack of heat and thirst, women's leakage, constipation knots and so on. With the duck kidney as a soup, it is clear and sweet and delicious, and has the function of strengthening the spleen and nourishing the stomach, moisturizing the lungs and relieving cough.
4. Chicken soup with apple and sichuan shellfish
Ingredients: 3/2 yellow chicken, 2 apples, 15 grams of cinnamon balls, 15 grams of Sichuan scallops, a few slices of ginger.
Directions: Wash and cut the three yellow chickens into small pieces. Blanch the chicken nuggets in boiling water and rinse with clean water to drain. Add 6 bowls of water to the soup pot and blanch the chicken nuggets in the pot. The apples are washed, cut into chunks and the cores removed. Place the washed cinnamon balls, scallops, apples, and ginger slices together in a soup pot. Bring to a boil over high heat and reduce heat to a boil for 2 hours.
Efficacy: often eat apples can improve the function of the respiratory system and lungs, apples and sichuan shells with heat and phlegm, lungs and cough together stew soup, can achieve the effect of moisturizing the lungs and coughing, coupled with nutrient-rich chicken and cinnamon meat, it is more able to replenish qi and blood, clear the heart and nourish the lungs.
5. Sydney silver ear soup
Ingredients: 1 sydney pear, 30 grams of water hair silver ear fungus, 5 grams of shellfish, sugar to taste.
Directions: Remove the roots, wash and tear the pear into small pieces; peel and seed the pear and cut it into multiple pieces. Place the white fungus slices, sydney pear pieces, shellfish and sugar in a stew dish and steam for 30-40 minutes, remove and serve on a plate.
Effect: This soup nourishes the yin and clears the lungs, eliminates phlegm and reduces fire.