Peel and core the apple for use, and wash and core the fresh white lotus for use.
Wash fresh lily petals for later use.
Cut the ribs and blanch them for later use.
Add cold water to the ribs, bring them to a boil and simmer for half an hour. Add apples, fresh lilies, lotus seeds and ginger slices and stew for another half an hour. The soup tastes sweet and the meat is rotten. Those who like salt can eat it with salt.
Apple is also called the fruit of wisdom and memory, and is called "all-round healthy fruit" or "general practitioner" by some scientists and doctors. Apple belongs to Rosaceae, which is not only the most important fruit in China, but also the most widely planted fruit with the highest yield in the world. Apples are slightly round in shape, and their skins are mostly blue, yellow and red. It tastes sweet and sour and is nutritious. It is one of the fruits suitable for all ages.
Its taste is sweet and sour, its nature is cool, and apples are used as medicine. It was recorded as early as the Tang Dynasty. Apples not only benefit the heart, strengthen the spleen, but also produce fluid to quench thirst, which has the functions of "moistening the lungs and pleasing the heart, producing fluid to stimulate appetite and sober up".
Lotus seeds with nuclei moisten lung, clear heart, nourish heart and soothe the nerves, lily nourish yin, moisten lung and relieve cough, clear heart and soothe the nerves. Ginger warms the middle and dispels the cold, ribs taste sweet and flat, nourish yin and strengthen the spleen, replenish the middle and replenish qi, and strengthen bones and muscles. Therefore, this soup has the effects of nourishing body fluid, moistening lung, nourishing heart and calming nerves.
It is suitable for people with itchy throat, dry cough, dry mouth, dry throat, polydipsia, asthenic fever after illness, staying up late for a long time, upset and insomnia, dreaminess, fever of hands and feet, climacteric weakness, hot flashes and night sweats, radiotherapy and chemotherapy, and body fluid injury after initial recovery from serious illness.
Before and after the Double Ninth Festival, this soup is slightly sour, sweet and delicious, so it is best to take it at this time. If you cough, you can add almond 10g, 3 figs and 5g dried tangerine peel. Adding 6 grams of dried tangerine peel and 4 grams of Fritillaria cirrhosa to yellow phlegm can turn apples into Sydney; Dry mouth, obviously add 8 grams of Ophiopogon japonicus, Adenophora adenophora 10 grams; Sleepy and dry, add Lycium barbarum10g; Spleen deficiency plus dried tangerine peel 10g. Do not take it for those who are deficient in cold, afraid of cold and have diarrhea.