How to cook Dendrobium soup

Dendrobium is a common Chinese medicinal material with a relatively cold property and has many benefits for the human body. In addition to using Dendrobium for decocting and taking medicine, some friends also use Dendrobium to match other ingredients to make soup. The efficacy can also be exerted, and you can also taste delicious soup. This method is also very suitable for the general public's taste.

The role of Dendrobium

As a traditional Chinese medicine, Dendrobium has a sweet, mild and slightly salty taste and is cold in nature. It enters the stomach, kidney and lung meridians and has many functions. It can nourish yin and clear heat, promote fluid production and moisten dryness, and benefit the stomach and gallbladder. It is often used for symptoms such as dry mouth and thirst, loss of appetite and dry retching, damage to the yin and deficiency of body fluid, fever after illness, and blurred vision.

1. It can be used to treat hepatitis, cholecystitis, gallstones and other liver and gallbladder diseases. It can also nourish yin fluid and lubricate joints, thereby strengthening tendons and bones, facilitating joint circulation, and resisting rheumatism.

2. It can also enhance insulin activity, significantly lower blood sugar levels, promote circulation, dilate blood vessels, lower blood cholesterol and triglycerides, and has a good therapeutic effect on diabetes.

3. Dendrobium contains many trace elements needed by the human body. Its anti-aging effect on the human body is better and more comprehensive than general drugs, and it is closely related to health and longevity.

Detailed explanation of how to make Dendrobium soup

As a health product, the most common way to consume Dendrobium is to soak it in water or drink it as tea. In fact, Dendrobium can also be used to make soup, which is more delicious and nutritious.

Dendrobium can be used with many ingredients to make soup, such as old duck, old pigeon, lean meat, fish maw, etc., and it has a very good nourishing effect.

Dendrobium officinale and duck soup

Wash the Dendrobium officinale and soak it in clean water for 10 minutes. Blanch the old duck, cut into pieces, add appropriate amount of ginger, salt, cooking wine, water and ham slices and stew for 20 minutes. Then put the old duck soup and the soaked Dendrobium officinale into the stewing pot and stew or steam it for an hour.

Dendrobium and fish maw stewed with lean meat

Wash the dendrobium, soak the fish maw for 1 hour, then rinse it in boiling water and cut it into sections. Wash the lean meat and cut it into pieces. Put dendrobium, fish maw and lean meat into a stewing pot, add appropriate amount of water, stew for 2 hours and then season.

White Peony Root and Dendrobium Lean Meat Soup

Cut the lean pork into pieces, wash the white peony root, dendrobium and red dates, put all the above ingredients into the pot, then add appropriate amount of water, bring to a boil over high heat, then switch to medium-low heat and cook for at least an hour, then adjust the taste.

Dendrobium officinale and pork ribs soup

Wash the Dendrobium candidum and soak it for 10 minutes. Clean the Codonopsis pilosula, wolfberry and pork ribs, put them into a stewing pot, add appropriate amount of water, and steam them for one hour.