Traditional Chinese medicine generally advocates that keeping in good health in spring is mainly based on eliminating damp heat, and that the diet in spring is light and recuperated to better absorb the breath of the earth in summer. Soup is an easily absorbed food and is very popular in the family. Here are some dampness-removing soups for everyone. It's good for adults and children to drink it.

1, stewed pork trotters with fresh mulberry leaves

Ingredients: 5 grams of fresh mulberry leaves, 60 grams of pork tenderloin, half candied dates, ginger 1 tablet.

Method: Wash pork tenderloin and cut it into large pieces. Rinse fresh mulberry leaves with water, then put all the ingredients in a stew pot and stew for 3 hours, adding salt to taste when drinking.

Tip: Fresh mulberry leaves are the most in March-May, so don't miss it. Young leaves can be cooked and eaten. If you stew soup, old leaves can do no harm.

2. Chenpi Baizhu Wuhua Decoction

Ingredients: 6 grams of Xinhui tangerine peel, 30 grams of Atractylodes macrocephala, half of fresh pork belly or 1 piece, 6 grams of Amomum villosum, 5 slices of ginger, optional each time.

Methods: First, the pork belly was degreased, put into boiling water to remove fishy smell, and the white film was scraped off. Wash Pericarpium Citri Tangerinae, Atractylodis Rhizoma, Fructus Amomi and Rhizoma Zingiberis Recens with clear water. Then put all the ingredients into the soup pot, boil and simmer for 2 hours.

Efficacy: this soup has that effect of invigorating spleen and stimulate appetite. It is especially suitable for people with abdominal distension, dampness and indigestion.

3. Tommy of Huaishan Porcelain Stone Art

Ingredients: yam 15g, solid fruit 15g, fried coix seed 15g, fried lentils 15g, radix astragali 12g, Atractylodes macrocephala 10g, and ribs 200g each time.

Method: Soak yam in water to remove the sulfur smell. Stir-fry lentils and Coix lachryma-jobi seeds in a pot until they are slightly yellow, wash the ribs with blood and cut into pieces, wash the spiny stone, Radix Astragali and Atractylodis Macrocephalae with clear water, then put all the ingredients in a soup pot, cook them with medium fire for 1.5 hours and season them.

Efficacy: This soup has the effects of invigorating the spleen, waking the stomach, eliminating dampness and resisting fatigue, and is especially suitable for people with spleen deficiency and heavy dampness and listlessness.

4. Fresh chicken soup with mulberry branches

Ingredients: 40g of winter mulberry branches, chicken 1 piece, and 3 pieces of ginger.

Methods: Wash mulberry branches and soak them slightly; Wash the chicken and remove the viscera and tail. Put it in a casserole with ginger, add 3000 ml of water (about 12 bowl of water), simmer for 3 hours after the fire is boiled, and add appropriate amount of salt and oil. This quantity can be used by 3-4 people.

Efficacy: the smell is slightly fragrant and delicious, which is beneficial to essence, expelling wind and removing dampness and benefiting joints.

Don't let go of the dry ingredients!

In addition to the soup recipes provided above, you can also learn about the following dampness-removing ingredients, which can also have a good effect when added to your usual diet.

American ginseng: eating too much cold food leads to spleen deficiency. You can drink American ginseng tea, which has the effect of strengthening the spleen and benefiting the stomach.

Lotus leaf: fresh lotus leaf, dried and used. In addition to eliminating dampness and diuresis, it also has the effect of appetizing and promoting digestion.

Atractylodes macrocephala: It is a compositae plant whose roots are used for dietotherapy. Has the effects of invigorating stomach and strengthening body constitution, and can be used for treating weakness of limbs and anorexia.

Smilacis Glabrae: Smilacis Glabrae is a white family plant whose roots are used as medicine. It has the effects of promoting water flow in the body, diuresis and calming the nerves.

Coix seed: that is, Coix seed, which is responsible for eliminating dampness, has the effect of eliminating edema and benefiting the stomach, and has a strong diuretic effect.

Kapok: It has the function of eliminating dampness and clearing heat.

Rhizoma Imperatae: Rhizoma Imperatae is a good material for diuresis and dampness elimination.