Chinese medicine health science
In hot summer, a cup of refreshing sour plum soup will not only quench your thirst vitality.
As a delicious traditional Chinese medicine decoction, sour plum soup can be a good solution to the problem of excessive heat in summer.
In addition, it can replenish the body’s water and salt lost due to sweating, and at the same time, it can also appetize and promote digestion.
Drinking a cup of sour plum soup when drinking too much has a good effect of sobering up and protecting the liver.
If you eat too much greasy food such as meat, drinking sour plum soup can help digestion, strengthen the spleen and reduce fat.
Drinking sour plum soup is also a good choice when you have symptoms such as deficient heat, thirst, poor appetite, lack of stomach acid, and indigestion.
“good soup” is more expensive than “good medicine”
Nowadays, there are many sour plum soup recipes that have been handed down, but no matter how the recipe changes, the five flavors of black plum, hawthorn, licorice, tangerine peel, and rock sugar are all essential.
Don’t underestimate them, every taste is very particular!
Black plum
Sour, astringent, flat in nature . Returns liver, spleen, lung, large intestine meridian. It has the effects of astringing the lungs and astringent intestines, promoting fluid and relieving ascaris, and hemostasis. In summer, fire in the heart overcomes gold in the lungs, and black plum can restrain the qi in the lungs.
Hawthorn
Sour, sweet, slightly warm in nature . Return to the spleen, stomach and liver meridians. It has the functions of digesting food and strengthening the stomach, promoting qi and dissipating blood stasis, dispelling turbidity and lowering lipids. Hot weather leads to loss of appetite, eating hawthorn can promote gastrointestinal digestion.
Chenpi
Pungent, warm, bitter in taste. Return to the lung and spleen meridians. It has the effect of regulating qi and strengthening the spleen, drying dampness and resolving phlegm. It is often used for abdominal distention, vomiting and diarrhea due to lack of food, and cough with excessive phlegm.
Licorice
Sweet and flat. It has the functions of tonifying the spleen and nourishing qi, clearing heat and detoxifying, removing phlegm and relieving cough, relieving acute pain and reconciling various medicines. It can be used for weak spleen and stomach, fatigue, palpitations and shortness of breath in summer.
rock sugar
recorded in “Ben Cao Zaixin” Rock sugar “invigorates the middle and invigorates the qi, harmonizes the stomach and moistens the lungs. Stops coughing, resolves phlegm and salivation.” For the effect of quenching thirst, hawthorn and tangerine peel play a role in eliminating accumulation and resolving greasy food, and licorice and rock sugar play a role in reconciling the spleen and stomach and correcting the taste.
Homemade sour plum soup with good health effects
In life, many people like to buy finished sour plum soup to drink, but the sour plum soup sold on the market often contains a lot of sugar, which is not conducive to human health.
Actually, the production of sour plum soup is not complicated, you can easily make it at home.
Sour plum soup recipe one
Ingredients: 25 grams of black plum, 25 grams of black dates, 30 grams of raw hawthorn, 6 grams of dried tangerine peel, 2 grams of licorice, 2 grams of cardamom, 3 grams of dried osmanthus, and appropriate amount of rock sugar.
Boil method:
1. Wash the above herbs, soak them in cold water for 2 to 3 hours, and then boil them in a pot.
2. When the head is frying, bring to a boil over medium heat, turn to low heat, cover and cook for 25 minutes.
3. Take an appropriate amount of rock sugar according to taste and place it in another soup pot, pour the boiled soup directly into the soup pot from the colander, and melt the rock sugar .
4. For the second frying, keep the herbs in the pot, add 600~1000 ml of water, bring to a boil over high heat, then turn to medium-low heat and cover Cook for 30 minutes. When the time is up, pour the Erjian into the soup from the colander and stir well with a small spoon.
5. Sprinkle dry sweet-scented osmanthus, the temperature of the soup is about 70 degrees at this time, not high temperature. Prevent the fragrance of osmanthus from volatilizing.
6. Let it cool at room temperature and drink immediately.
7. Strain out the sweet-scented osmanthus with a colander, and a bowl of glycolic sweet-scented sweet-scented sweet-scented plum soup will do, and the soup will be bright reddish-brown.
Sour plum soup recipe II
Materials: 50 grams of ebony, 30 grams of hawthorn, 10 grams of licorice, and 15 grams of dried tangerine peel.
Boil method:
1. Soak the selected ebony, hawthorn, tangerine peel and licorice in salt water for 10 minutes to remove the microorganisms in the raw materials, and then rinse with water until there is no salt and control the moisture.
2. Put the above ingredients into a pot, add 5 liters of water, soak for 2 to 3 hours, boil over high heat, and simmer over low heat After 1 hour, strain the boiled concentrated juice through a sieve and set aside.
3. Add an appropriate amount of rock sugar according to your own taste, boil it a little to make it melt, and stir well. After it cools down, store it in the refrigerator and drink it anytime.
01Note
Sour plum soup is not suitable for everyone, because black plum and hawthorn in medicinal diets should be treated by physicians or pharmacists with weaker spleen and stomach functions. use under guidance. In addition, because ebony has a strong astringent effect, it will astringe the evil and prevent the evil from being closed. Cold patients who need to sweat, and cough patients with phlegm in the respiratory tract should not drink more. In addition, it is not suitable for patients with gastric ulcer to drink sour plum soup, which may cause stomach bleeding.
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