Raw materials: yam 100g, Polygonatum sibiricum 50g, rabbit meat 500g, Lycium barbarum 10g, hawthorn 30g, salt, monosodium glutamate or chicken essence, oyster sauce, starch, water starch, onion, ginger and salad oil.

Practice: yam peeled and cut into pieces; Polygonatum sibiricum is bought from a drugstore and washed for later use. Wash rabbit meat, boneless and diced, add salt and starch, grab it evenly, oil it and pour it out; Heat the oil in a pan, add onion and ginger, stir-fry until fragrant, add Polygonatum sibiricum, Fructus Lycii and Fructus Crataegi, simmer over medium heat until the rabbit meat is cooked, then add yam, add oyster sauce, monosodium glutamate or chicken essence and salt to taste when the yam is cooked, thicken and collect juice, and serve.

Efficacy: Yam can nourish the spleen and stomach, help digestion and restrain sweating; Polygonatum sibiricum moistens lung and nourishes yin, tonifies spleen and benefits qi, and has nourishing effect on people who are tired and weak and have yin deficiency; Rabbit meat is a healthy food with low fat and cholesterol. Hawthorn contains a variety of vitamins and acids, and has the functions of promoting fluid production, quenching thirst, promoting digestion and invigorating stomach. The above raw materials, like Lycium barbarum, can also help digestion, reduce blood pressure, benefit eyesight, tonify the middle energizer and replenish qi.

2. Lotus root and melon ribs soup

Ingredients: 250g of lotus root, 250g of wax gourd, 200g of ribs, 3 slices of ginger, a little pepper, salt and chicken essence.

Practice: wash lotus root, peel and cut into pieces, and peel and cut melon for use; Cut the ribs into small pieces, put them in a pot, pour in cold water and heat them. After the water boils, skim off the blood foam, then add ginger slices and pepper and cook until it is 80% cooked. Then add lotus seeds, simmer for 40 minutes, and then add wax gourd. When the wax gourd is ripe, season it with salt and chicken essence.

Efficacy: Lotus root can clear away heat, relieve annoyance, strengthen spleen and stomach, and benefit digestion; Wax gourd has good effects of clearing away heat and relieving summer heat and diuresis. It contains a variety of vitamins and trace elements necessary for human body, which can regulate the metabolic balance of human body. Pork ribs also have the effects of nourishing yin and moistening dryness, nourishing essence and nourishing blood, and are suitable for people with deficiency of both qi and blood and yin deficiency. On a hot summer day, after a busy day, you come home and drink a bowl of lotus root and winter melon sparerib soup, which is really refreshing and makes your summer heat disappear.