What soup is better for the lungs?

When people are sick, they don’t necessarily have to rely on medication. In fact, paying attention to diet has a very obvious therapeutic effect on their body. There are also many medicinal foods in life that can treat human diseases. Especially when you feel that you have a lung disease, you should choose medicinal foods for treatment more often. Moreover, the lungs play a very important role in the internal organs, so what kind of medicinal food is good for the lungs?

What soup is good for the lungs?

1. Almond Pig Lung Soup

Ingredients: 10 grams of almonds, 250 grams of pig lungs, ginger, codonopsis, and salt as appropriate.

Method: Wash the pig lungs and cut them into pieces. Wash the almonds and put them into a casserole together with pig lungs, ginger, codonopsis and salt. Add water, bring to a boil and then simmer over low heat for two hours.

Efficacy: It can relieve cough and reduce phlegm, promote salivation and quench thirst, and moisten the intestines and promote bowel movements. It is especially beneficial for patients who often suffer from respiratory diseases.

2. Adenophora and Lily Lung-Moistening Soup

Ingredients: 15 grams of Northern Adenophora, 30 grams of lily, five figs, 18 grams of lean pork, and 1 piece of tangerine peel.

Preparation: Wash the figs and cut them in half. Wash the lean pork, blanch it, and wash the northern adenophora, tangerine peel, and lily. Put all the ingredients into boiling water and continue to cook over medium heat for about two hours. Add a little salt to taste and it is ready to drink.

Efficacy: Northern Adenophora, lily and fig all have the effects of nourishing yin and moistening the lungs, moistening dryness and clearing the throat. Combined with lean pork that nourishes yin and tangerine peel that promotes qi and strengthens the spleen, dries dampness and resolves phlegm, it can also moisturize the throat, protect the vocal cords, facilitate bowel movements, and prevent hemorrhoids.

3. Snow Ear and Duck Kidney Soup

Ingredients: 20 grams of snow fungus, 3 to 4 cured duck kidneys, 200 grams of lean pork, and 3 slices of ginger.

Preparation: Soak the snow fungus and tear it into small pieces; wash the cured duck kidneys, soak them in warm water, and cut them into thick slices; wash the lean pork and cut it into pieces. Put them together with ginger in a clay pot, add 2000 ml (about 8 bowls) of water, boil over high heat, then simmer over low heat for about 1.5 hours, then add salt.

Efficacy: Tremella can cure palpitations, insomnia, neurasthenia, nourish the skin, treat fatigue cough, deficiency heat and thirst, metrorrhagia in women, constipation, etc. The soup made with cured duck kidney is refreshing, sweet and delicious, and has the effects of strengthening the spleen and stomach, moistening the lungs and relieving cough.

4. Apple and Fritillaria Chicken Soup

Ingredients: half a three-yellow chicken, 2 apples, 15 grams of longan meat, 15 grams of Fritillaria cirrhosa, and a few slices of ginger.

Method: Wash the three-yellow chicken and cut it into small pieces. Blanch the chicken in boiling water, rinse with clean water and drain. Add 6 bowls of water into the soup pot and put the blanched chicken pieces into the pot. Wash the apples, cut into pieces and remove the core. Put the cleaned longan meat, Fritillaria cirrhosa, apple and ginger slices into the soup pot. Bring to a boil over high heat, then turn to low heat and simmer for 2 hours.

Efficacy: Eating apples regularly can improve the function of the respiratory system and lungs. Stewing apples with Sichuan Fritillaria, which has the functions of clearing away heat and reducing phlegm, moistening the lungs and relieving coughs, can achieve the effect of moistening the lungs and relieving coughs. Adding nutritious chicken and longan meat to the soup can further replenish qi and blood, clear the heart and nourish the lungs.

5. Pear and Tremella Soup

Ingredients: 1 snow pear, 30 grams of water-soaked white fungus, 5 grams of Fritillaria, and appropriate amount of white sugar.

Preparation method: Remove the roots and impurities of the soaked white fungus, wash it, and tear it into small pieces; peel and seed the pear, and cut it into several pieces. Put white fungus slices, snow pear pieces, Fritillaria and sugar in a stewing dish and steam for 30-40 minutes. Take out and serve.

Efficacy: This soup nourishes yin, clears the lungs, eliminates phlegm and reduces fire.

6. Stewed pig lung with snow pear, reed root and sugarcane

Ingredients: 1-2 snow pears, 50g Imperata root, 100-150g sugarcane, about 500g pig lung, 3 slices of ginger.

Preparation method: Wash all ingredients, remove the core of the pear and cut into pieces; cut the imperata root and bamboo sugarcane into sections; pour clean water into the pig's throat and rub it, repeat several times, cut into pieces, squeeze out the water, and stir-fry in a wok without oil or salt for a while. Put them together with ginger in a clay pot, add 2500 ml of water (about 10 bowls), boil over high heat, then simmer for about 2 hours on low heat, then add salt.

Efficacy: Dispel dryness, promote salivation, nourish and moisturize the lungs.

7. Red Date and Pigeon Soup

Ingredients: 12 grams of roasted Stemona, 4 red dates, 1 baby pigeon, 2 slices of ginger.

Preparation: Roast the Stemona bulbus and red dates, and remove the pits from the red dates; slaughter the baby pigeon, clean it, remove the hair, claws and dirt, boil it in boiling water for a while, and then wash it; put it and the ginger into a clay pot, add 1500 ml (6 bowls) of water, boil it over high heat, then simmer it over low heat for 2 hours, and add appropriate amount of salt and a little cooking oil.

Efficacy: Roasted Fritillaria thunbergii is mild in nature and sweet in taste, and has the effect of warming the lungs, resolving phlegm and relieving cough. Therefore, this soup has the effect of warming the lungs, resolving phlegm and relieving cough.