Autumn diet should be based on nourishing yin, clearing heat and moistening dryness. It can be said that there is no need for delicacies, old fire and old soup. Therefore, when the climate is dry and the weather turns cold, you need to take in a lot of nutritious water. We recommend several autumn nourishing soups-

-Autumn flu prevention soup-

Stewed pork lungs with olive and radish

Can be use for preventing and treat autumn influenza, common cold, tonsillitis and bronchitis, and can also be used for adjuvant treatment of bilateral rib pain caused by stagnation of liver qi and food stagnation.

【 Materials 】 Olive 150g, radish 500 ~ 1000g, pig lung 1.

Olive is a good medicine for people in Chaoshan to clear pharyngitis and treat throat diseases. As the saying goes, olives are Qinglong soup for throat diseases, radishes are Baihu soup for throat diseases, and olives and radishes can be described as Qinglong and Baihu. The former is warm, sweet and astringent, enters the lung and stomach meridians, and has the functions of lowering qi, promoting fluid production, quenching thirst, clearing away lung heat, relieving sore throat, relieving hangover, promoting digestion and appetizing; The latter is slightly cool, sweet and pungent, and has the functions of invigorating stomach, promoting digestion, relieving cough and resolving phlegm, inducing diuresis, and clearing away heat and toxic materials. Combined with pig lung with lung tonifying function, it has the effects of clearing away heat, relieving sore throat, moistening lung and relieving cough. It is really a soup that treats both the symptoms and root causes.

[Cooking] Wash radish, peel, cut into pieces, wash olives and soak in water for a while; Cut the pig lungs into thick slices, soak them in clean water, squeeze them dry by hand and wash them, cook them in boiling water for 5 minutes, scoop up cold water, drain the water, put them together in a clay pot, add clean water 1000 ml (about 10 bowl of water), boil them with strong fire, and then cook them with slow fire for about 2 hours. Add a proper amount of salt and crude oil, which can be used by 2 ~ 4 people.

-Heat-clearing and dryness-moistening old fire soup-watercress, jujube and sashimi soup

Moisturizing and delicious, it has the functions of moistening lung, invigorating stomach, clearing heat and moistening dryness. At the same time, it can also assist in the treatment of dry throat, lung heat and dry cough, intestinal dryness and constipation.

【 Materials 】 750g watercress, 5 candied dates, 500-600g raw fish, 0/20g pork/kloc, 3-4 slices ginger.

Cabbage is a vegetable in autumn, which has the function of clearing heat and moistening dryness; Candied dates are flat and sweet, and have the effects of benefiting qi, promoting fluid production, moistening lung and stomach. Raw fish is cold and sweet, and has the function of strengthening the spleen and nourishing yin; Pigs fighting for meat are equally flat and sweet, which can strengthen the spleen and moisten dryness; Ginger is pungent and warm, which can strengthen the stomach and eliminate dampness. Cabbage and candied dates are used together, which is more moist and has better effect; When raw fish and pigs compete for meat, they will strengthen the spleen in the process of moistening, so that the spleen is healthy and the body fluid can be restored. Combined into soup, it can clear away heat and nourish yin, nourish stomach and quench thirst, moisten lung and relieve cough.

[Cooking] First, remove the scales and intestines from the raw fish, wash it, drain the water, take it out of the pan, fry it, and shovel it; Wash the candied dates, remove the core and soak them slightly; Pigs compete for meat washing; Wash watercress and pick it short; Then put them together in a clay pot, add 1200ml of clean water (about 12 bowl of water), bring them to a boil with high fire, then simmer for 3 hours, and add appropriate amount of salt and oil. This soup can serve 3-4 people.

-Qiuyangfei Decoction-According to the theory of correspondence between man and nature in TCM, time corresponds to viscera, and autumn belongs to lung. Therefore, autumn is the best time to nourish, tonify or treat lung diseases.

Nan Shen xing di old duck soup

It has the effects of invigorating lung qi and nourishing kidney yin, and can also be used for adjuvant treatment of lung and kidney yin deficiency, manifested by lung dryness and dry cough, or asthma due to qi inversion and phlegm.

【 Materials 】 Nanxing 12g, Dangshen 30g, Rehmannia glutinosa 30g, Fritillaria cirrhosa 12g, 2-3 slices of ginger, and old duck 1 piece.

Nanxing is warm and bitter, and it has the same effect of relieving cough and asthma as Beixing, but Nanxing is good at nourishing lung, moistening lung, moistening dryness, relieving cough and asthma; Fritillaria cirrhosa is slightly cold, sweet and bitter, and has the function of moistening lung and resolving phlegm. If it is compatible with Nanxing, the effect of moistening lung, resolving phlegm and relieving cough is better. Codonopsis pilosula is flat and sweet, not dry or greasy, and has the functions of invigorating spleen and benefiting qi, promoting fluid production and quenching thirst; Rehmannia glutinosa is warm and sweet. It can nourish yin and kidney, quench thirst and promote fluid production. It is used together with Dangshen for invigorating spleen and kidney and replenishing essence. Sufficient sources of essence, qi and body fluid can cure lung dryness. Old duck is flat, sweet and salty, and has the function of nourishing yin and nourishing liquid; Ginger is pungent and warm, which can strengthen the stomach and remove fishy smell. Combined into soup, * * * plays the role of nourishing the lung and stomach, relieving cough and resolving phlegm.

[Cooking] Nanxing scalds clothes with boiling water. Wash and soak Radix Codonopsis, Radix Rehmanniae Preparata and Bulbus Fritillariae Cirrhosae for a while, and wash and chop the old duck. Then put it in a casserole with ginger, add 1200ml water, boil it with strong fire, stew it with low fire for about 3 hours, add proper amount of salt and oil, and it can be eaten by 2 ~ 3 people.