Adding different medicinal materials to chicken soup in autumn has different nourishing effects. Adding ginger can nourish essence, relieve colds and improve human immunity; Adding Lycium barbarum can supplement yang, help the growth of yang and resist the cold. You can also add some oil-absorbing foods such as wax gourd and mushrooms, which can lower cholesterol. Chicken soup has always been famous for its nutrition and delicious taste. In order to improve their health, it is suggested to add mushrooms, codonopsis pilosula and astragalus. Lentinus edodes contains an ingredient called lentinan, which can improve immunity. Astragalus membranaceus and Codonopsis pilosula, two well-known nourishing traditional Chinese medicines, are also polysaccharides, which are called Astragalus membranaceus polysaccharide and Codonopsis pilosula polysaccharide respectively, and can promote human immune function.

Best nourishing ingredients in autumn:

Chinese yam

Yam not only has the reputation of "god of food", but also has the effect of "taking medicine". Yam is beneficial to digestion and absorption of spleen and stomach; It can effectively prevent the deposition of blood lipids on the blood vessel wall, prevent cardiovascular diseases and prolong life.

The best way to eat: steaming, making soup and cooking. Steamed food has the least nutritional loss.

Best match: Lycium barbarum

You can cook medlar yam porridge with medlar to better play a nourishing role.

lotus root

When the weather is dry, eating some lotus roots can nourish yin and clear away heat, moisten dryness and quench thirst, and clear the heart and soothe the nerves. Fresh lotus root is very beneficial to treat constipation and promote the discharge of harmful substances.

Best way to eat: soup

Seven-hole lotus root has high starch content, less water, waxy but not brittle, and is suitable for soup making.

Best match: black and white fungus

With tremella can nourish lung yin, with auricularia can nourish kidney yin.

peanut

Chinese medicine believes that peanuts are flat and sweet, and enter the spleen and lungs. Has the effects of invigorating spleen, regulating stomach, moistening lung, eliminating phlegm, nourishing and regulating qi, clearing throat and relieving cough.

The best way to eat: cook with a shell.

Preferably fresh peanuts with shells. Cooked peanuts are not only easy to digest and absorb, but also can make full use of the medical and health care functions of peanut shells and inner red clothes. Peanut can treat thrombocytopenia and prevent and treat hemorrhagic diseases; Peanut shells can lower blood pressure and regulate cholesterol.

Best match: red dates.

Using red dates can strengthen the spleen, replenish blood and stop bleeding. It has certain curative effect on anemia due to spleen deficiency, especially for women.

Lily porridge

Lily tastes sweet and bitter, and its sex is flat. It is rich in nutrients, including protein, vitamins, carotene and some special effective ingredients, such as starch, which has a certain effect on inhibiting the proliferation of cancer cells. Lily has the effects of moistening lung, relieving cough, clearing heart and calming nerves, and has become the top grade for autumn consumption.

For example, lily porridge made of lily glutinous rice, with a little rock sugar, is not only delicious, but also can soothe the nerves and help sleep.

Best match: almonds

Almonds have the effects of moistening lung, relieving cough, clearing heart and calming nerves. Lily porridge is suitable for patients who are weak and have dry cough after illness.

pear

Pear is called "natural mineral water" because it is fresh and juicy, contains 85% water, is sweet and sour, and is rich in vitamins and trace elements such as calcium, phosphorus, iron and iodine. Since ancient times, it has been known as the "Hundred Fruits School". If you can insist on eating a certain amount of pears every day in autumn, you can relieve autumn dryness, promote fluid production and moisten the lungs.

The best way to eat: eat raw pears

It can obviously relieve symptoms such as dry throat, itching, pain, hoarseness, constipation and red urine of patients with upper respiratory tract infection; Boiling or steaming pears, such as steamed pears with rock sugar, can nourish yin and moisten the lungs, relieve cough and resolve phlegm.

Best match: honey

Pear toffee, which is famous at home and abroad, is made of pears and honey and has obvious curative effect on patients with chronic cough due to lung heat.