Efficacy: clearing away heat and resolving phlegm, nourishing blood and caring skin, nourishing yin and moistening dryness, invigorating spleen and nourishing stomach.

Nutritional value: dietary fiber, mucin, vitamins and trace elements, calcium phosphate, bone collagen, bone mucin.

Suitable for people: ordinary people can eat it, especially those with anemia and insomnia.

Taboo population: people with damp-heat phlegm and blood stasis, hyperlipidemia and spleen-stomach deficiency and cold.

Ingredients for ribs and lotus root soup.

The main ingredients are ribs, lotus root, ginger slices and chopped green onion.

Practice of ribs and lotus root soup

1 lotus root peeled, washed and cut into thick slices.

2 Wash the ribs with clear water and rinse them off.

3 Put the ribs, lotus root and ginger slices into the pot, add appropriate amount of water, simmer for two hours after the water boils, then put the pot into a bowl and sprinkle with chopped green onion.

Efficacy and function of ribs and lotus root soup

Lotus root has the effects of relieving summer heat, quenching thirst, nourishing heart and promoting blood production, clearing away heat and moistening lung, strengthening spleen and stimulating appetite. Spareribs are rich in nutrition, and have the effects of nourishing yin, strengthening yang, benefiting essence and enriching blood. Lotus root ribs soup has the effects of clearing away heat and resolving phlegm, nourishing blood, caring skin, tonifying kidney and nourishing blood, moistening intestine and expelling toxin, nourishing yin and moistening dryness, strengthening spleen and stomach and strengthening bones and muscles. Such a health-preserving soup can replenish qi and blood, improve human immunity, have a certain laxative effect, and can also enhance physical fitness, strengthen the spleen and stimulate appetite.