Today, I will explain in detail 2 1 kinds of Chinese herbal medicines commonly used in soup, as well as the efficacy and function of these Chinese herbal medicines, so that you can fully understand what kind of Chinese herbal medicines are most suitable for soup, so as to cook the most suitable health soup for you.
1, yam: yam is flat and sweet, and enters spleen, lung and kidney meridians. Has the effects of invigorating spleen, nourishing stomach, promoting fluid production, benefiting lung, tonifying kidney and astringing essence. Regular consumption of yam soup can improve hormone imbalance, enhance disease resistance, accelerate the repair of damaged tissues, maintain vitality, and prevent and improve symptoms such as malignant tumor, diabetes, arteriosclerosis, heart disease, obesity and Alzheimer's Harmo's disease.
Examples of eating methods: the practice of ribs and yam soup, how to deal with yam so as not to itch.
2, Sanqi: Sanqi has medicinal effects such as removing blood stasis, stopping bleeding, reducing swelling and relieving pain, and can be used for dietotherapy of hemoptysis, vomiting blood, epistaxis, hematochezia, metrorrhagia, traumatic bleeding, chest and abdomen tingling, traumatic swelling and pain. Cooking soup with Radix Notoginseng and chicken or ribs has the effects of invigorating qi, nourishing blood and strengthening the body. It has a good therapeutic effect on metrorrhagia, postpartum weakness, spontaneous sweating and night sweats, and can also be used to treat head wind pain or weak waist creatine in the elderly.
Examples of eating methods: Hakka Sanqi pork tripe chicken soup, soup for nourishing blood and qi.
3, Lycium barbarum: Lycium barbarum has the effect of nourishing liver and kidney, benefiting the heart and calming the nerves, and can be used for diet therapy of exhaustion, waist and knee pain, dizziness and tinnitus, internal heat to quench thirst, blood deficiency and chlorosis or blurred vision.
Examples of eating methods: Lycium barbarum and barley ribs soup, Jieqiuzao soup.
4. Astragalus membranaceus: Astragalus membranaceus has the effects of benefiting qi, consolidating exterior, promoting diuresis, expelling pus, healing sores and promoting granulation. It can be used for dietotherapy of qi deficiency, fatigue, anorexia, loose stool, diarrhea, proctoptosis, metrorrhagia, spontaneous sweating due to exterior deficiency, edema due to qi deficiency, carbuncle swelling, chronic collapse, flaccidity, yellow blood deficiency, and thirst quenching due to internal heat. It can also be used for treating chronic nephritis, proteinuria and diabetes.
Examples of eating methods: the practice and efficacy of astragalus black-bone chicken soup
5. Crataegus pinnatifida: Crataegus pinnatifida has the effects of promoting digestion, invigorating stomach, promoting qi circulation and removing blood stasis, and can be used for dietotherapy for food stagnation, fullness in the stomach, diarrhea and abdominal pain, blood stasis amenorrhea, postpartum stasis, stabbing pain in the heart, hernia pain and hyperlipidemia. In particular, burnt hawthorn has a stronger digestion promoting effect, which is mainly used to treat meat stagnation and diarrhea.
How to eat: stewed duck with hawthorn. How to stew duck is the best?
6. Angelica sinensis: Angelica sinensis has the effects of enriching blood and promoting blood circulation, regulating menstruation and relieving pain, and relaxing bowels. It can be used for dietotherapy of diseases such as blood deficiency and sallow, dizziness and palpitation, menoxenia, amenorrhea and dysmenorrhea, abdominal pain due to deficiency of cold, constipation due to intestinal dryness, rheumatic joint pain, traumatic injury and carbuncle. Angelica wine has the effect of promoting blood circulation and dredging channels, and is mainly used to treat amenorrhea, dysmenorrhea, rheumatic joint pain and traumatic injury.
Example of eating: delicious and freckle-removing angelica black chicken soup
7. Gastrodia elata: Gastrodia elata is moist but not dry. It mainly enters the liver meridian, and can calm the liver and nourish blood, stop wind and dispel wind, and relieve pain. Especially good at calming the liver and calming the wind. Whenever the liver wind blows and the head is dizzy, regardless of the actual situation, angelica is the main medicine. When returned, it can be used to treat infantile convulsion, epilepsy and tetanus, and has good curative effect on dizziness, headache, limb numbness and hemiplegia caused by wind phlegm.
How to eat: radish, gastrodia elata and watercress soup, which is simple and easy to make yangwei decoction.
8. Adenophora adenophora: Adenophora adenophora, also known as Adenophora adenophora, has the functions of nourishing yin, clearing lung, resolving phlegm and benefiting qi. It can be used for dietotherapy of lung heat dry cough, fatigue cough due to yin deficiency, dry cough with phlegm, deficiency of both qi and yin, and dry mouth.
How to eat it: Shashen Yuzhu Fishtail Soup, Fan Bingbing's favorite soup.
9. Glehnia littoralis: Glehnia littoralis is also called Laiyang Ginseng, Haisha Ginseng, Yinsha Ginseng or Liaosha Ginseng. Its leaves are sweet and bitter, and its nature is cool, and it enters the lungs and spleen. It has the effects of nourishing yin, clearing away lung-heat, invigorating stomach and promoting fluid production, and can be used for dietotherapy of lung heat, dry cough, expectoration with blood, fever, body fluid injury and thirst.
10, Dendrobium: Dendrobium is sweet and slightly salty, cold in nature, and enters the stomach, kidney and lung meridians. It has the effects of nourishing yin, promoting fluid production, improving eyesight, invigorating spleen, invigorating stomach, protecting liver, promoting gallbladder function, clearing away deficiency heat, strengthening tendons and bones, and inhibiting tumors, and can be used for dietotherapy of diseases such as yin deficiency, thirst, anorexia, retching, deficiency heat after illness, blurred vision, etc.
Examples of eating methods: Dendrobium cavity bone soup, summer tonic soup is "deficiency without tonic"
1 1, Euryale ferox: Euryale ferox, also known as Euryale ferox rice or chicken's head rice, is sweet and astringent, belonging to spleen and kidney meridian. It has the effects of tonifying kidney, arresting spermatorrhea, invigorating spleen, relieving diarrhea, removing dampness and stopping leukorrhagia, and can be used for dietotherapy for nocturnal emission, leukorrhagia, urinary incontinence, loose stool and dyspepsia.
The method of classic yangwei decoction gorgon fruit pork tripe soup.
12, Polygonatum odoratum: Polygonatum odoratum is sweet and flat. Enter the lung and stomach meridians. It has the effects of nourishing yin, moistening lung, nourishing stomach and promoting fluid production, and can be used for dietotherapy for dry cough, fatigue cough, dry throat and thirst caused by fever, internal heat and thirst quenching, yin deficiency and exogenous pathogenic factors, dizziness and muscle spasm.
How to eat it: Shashen Yuzhu Fishtail Soup, Fan Bingbing's favorite soup.
13, Pericarpium Citri Tangerinae: Pericarpium Citri Tangerinae is bitter in taste and warm in nature, and belongs to spleen and lung meridians. It has the effects of regulating middle energizer, relieving depression, regulating qi, resolving phlegm, and dredging five internal organs, and can be used for dietotherapy of abdominal distension or pain, dyspepsia, chest distress and abdominal distension, anorexia due to damp loose stool, and lung asthma due to phlegm stagnation.
Examples of eating methods: Chenpi Pig Bone Soup, Summer Calcium Supplement, Jianpi Yiqi Soup.
14, longan: longan, also known as longan, has the effects of nourishing the heart and strengthening the spleen, nourishing blood and calming the nerves, and can be used for the treatment of deficiency of both qi and blood, palpitation, forgetfulness, insomnia, blood deficiency and chlorosis.
Examples of eating methods: the practice and efficacy of jujube longan soup
15, Lily: Lily has the health-preserving effects of nourishing yin, moistening lung, clearing away heat and heart-fire, nourishing blood and calming the nerves, and can be used for dietotherapy for chronic cough due to yin deficiency, blood in phlegm, irritability, fright, insomnia, dreaminess and trance. Lily is suitable for clearing heart and moistening lung, while lily is suitable for baking with honey.
Examples of eating methods: the practice of lily loofah soup, which is used for insomnia.
16. Stigma Maydis: Stigma Maydis is sweet and light in taste, and belongs to kidney, liver and gallbladder. It has diuretic, repercussive, liver calming, cholagogic and blood pressure lowering effects, and is mainly used for dietotherapy of edema, urinary leakage, jaundice, cholecystitis, gallstones, hypertension, diabetes and galactorrhea.
17, red beans: The red beans here refer to adzuki beans, which are sweet and flat. It has the effects of invigorating spleen, promoting diuresis, promoting blood circulation, detoxicating and enriching blood, and is mainly used for dietotherapy of edema, beriberi, postpartum hypogalactia, diarrhea, jaundice, dysuria, anemia, hemorrhoids and intestinal carbuncle.
Examples of eating methods: beauty and blood-enriching soup and red bean and chicken feet soup.
18, sweet almond: sweet almond, also known as south almond, tastes bitter, slightly warm and slightly toxic. It can moisten lung and relieve constipation, and can be used for dietotherapy of lung heat due to yin deficiency, cough, dry throat and tongue, and dry stool.
19, Siraitia grosvenorii: Siraitia grosvenorii tastes sweet and cool, and has the effects of clearing away heat and moistening lung, relieving cough and resolving phlegm, moistening intestine and relaxing bowels. The main function of Siraitia grosvenorii is to relieve cough and resolve phlegm, and it can be used for dietotherapy of lung dryness, cough, whooping cough and thirst caused by lung heat or summer heat.
Examples of eating methods: Siraitia Grosvenorii Bone Soup, Qingxin Runfei Soup.
20, perilla: perilla is pungent, warm, and belongs to the spleen and lungs. Its leaves and stems have the functions of pungent and warm hair, regulating qi and chest, regulating sleep, warming stomach and helping digestion, but perilla leaves tend to relieve exterior syndrome, promote qi and stomach, while perilla stems are good at regulating qi and chest, relieving pain and preventing miscarriage.
For example, stewed eggs with perilla have a good effect on colds and coughs in autumn.