Ingredients: 12 red dates, about 300g yam, 2 tablespoons longan meat, 1/2 cups sugar.

Practice: soak the red dates soft. Peel and cut the yam, and cook it in clear water until it becomes soft. Add longan pulp and sugar to taste. When the longan meat has been cooked until it is scattered, you can turn off the fire and serve it.

Efficacy: Yam has the function of strengthening spleen and stomach; Longan and jujube are beneficial to qi and blood, spleen and stomach.

Yam lotus root ribs soup

Ingredients: a catty of ribs, 300g of yam, and lotus root 100g.

Seasoning: onion ginger, a small piece of angelica, aniseed, fragrant leaves, salt and pepper.

Practice: Boil a pot of boiling water and put the washed ribs in boiling water for later use. Wash yam and lotus root, peel and cut into pieces. Put water into a pot, add onion, ginger, angelica, aniseed and fragrant leaves and bring to a boil. Then put the ribs and lotus root in a stew pot, simmer for 40 minutes, add the Chinese yam pieces, add salt to taste, continue cooking for about 15 minutes, and add pepper to taste.

Efficacy: cooked lotus root can strengthen spleen, stimulate appetite and nourish blood; Yam nourishes the spleen and stomach, produces fluid and benefits the lungs, and tonifies the kidney and astringents essence.