Usually, after beginning of autumn, the weather becomes cold and the climate becomes dry. At this time, people often feel the mouth, nose, skin and other parts dry to varying degrees. Some people also have a series of symptoms such as dry mouth, short urine, dry stool, stuffy nose and cough. Many people's nasal mucosa can't adapt to the stimulation of cold air, and they often catch a cold, catch a cold and have a runny nose. These are called "autumn dryness". Traditional Chinese medicine believes that dryness is the main qi in autumn, which is easy to hurt its body fluids. When autumn comes, the climate changes from hot to cool, and the moisture in the air decreases, the human body will have a series of physiological changes due to dryness, which is often called "autumn dryness". Autumn dryness is mainly manifested as thirst, dry throat, hoarse cough, dry skin and so on.

Traditional Chinese medicine has always advocated diet conditioning to resist "dryness" and has a health preservation theory of "dryness means moistening dryness". Practice has proved that it is very beneficial to drink more nourishing and moistening soup in autumn!

■ Rhizoma Imperatae Sydney Pork Lung Soup

[Ingredients] 200g fresh cogongrass rhizome, 2 Sydney, pig lung 1 pair, 5g dried tangerine peel.

[Method] Wash the pig lungs and cut into pieces, put them in boiling water for 5 minutes, pick them up and rinse them off; Cut the Sydney into pieces, and remove the core; Dice cogongrass rhizome. Soak tangerine peel in water until soft, and cook it with pig lung, Sydney and cogongrass rhizome for 2 hours.

【 Function 】 Clearing heat and moistening lung, resolving phlegm and relieving cough, cooling blood and helping digestion. Can be used for body heat, nosebleeds, autumn cough, or dry cough without phlegm, or blood in phlegm, thick yellow phlegm, sore throat, hoarseness, dry mouth and constipation. It is also suitable for patients with hepatitis, cirrhosis, tracheitis and pneumonia.

■ Sydney Nanxing lean broth

[Ingredients] A fresh Sydney, almonds and lean pork.

[Method] Peel Sydney and cook with almonds and lean meat for 2 hours.

【 Function 】 This soup has the functions of moistening lung, promoting fluid production, clearing away heat and resolving phlegm, relieving cough and moistening dryness.

■ Chuanbei Apple Beverage

[Ingredients] One apple, Chuanbei about 10g, and appropriate amount of honey.

[Method] Flatten the apple cover, hollow out the heart, add Fritillaria 10g, cover with a proper amount of honey, fix it with a toothpick, stew for 2 hours, and eat the soup residue together.

【 Function 】 Moistening lung, resolving phlegm and relieving cough, used for cough with excessive phlegm, dry throat and thirst.

■ Dried duck kidney and red jujube soup

[Ingredients] 4 salted duck kidneys, 100g lean pork, 250g dried cabbage and 5 candied dates.

[Method] Dry Chinese cabbage was soaked in clear water and cut into sections. Soak the salted duck kidney in warm water and cut into pieces; Wash the lean pork. Put all the ingredients in the pot, add appropriate amount of water, boil with strong fire, and stew for 2-3 hours to taste.

【 Function 】 Clearing dryness and moistening lung, relieving cough and promoting fluid production, used for dry cough without phlegm, dry throat and thirst.

■ Radix Pseudostellariae and Lily Clear Soup

[Ingredients] Pseudostellaria heterophylla100g, lily 50g, Siraitia grosvenorii half, lean pork150g.

[Method] Wash the original slice of lean pork, clean Pseudostellaria heterophylla, Lily and Siraitia grosvenorii, put them in a pot, add appropriate amount of water, boil with strong fire, add lean pork, and cook with slow fire for 65,438+0-2 hours to taste.

【 Function 】 Clear and moisten lung dryness, benefit lung and promote fluid production. It is suitable for people with qi deficiency, lung dryness, cough, asthma, shortness of breath, dry mouth and thirst, lung injury caused by hot cough and dry throat.