Five Elements Soup Preparation and Efficacy

As the name suggests, Five Elements Soup is a soup made with five kinds of vegetables. No matter what kind of soup it is, it is beneficial to people's health. Drinking soup regularly can be diuretic, promote brain development, and supplement the protein needed by the human body. Improve immunity and enhance resistance. So soup is the most popular. The Five Elements Soup sounds complicated, so what are the methods and effects of the Five Elements Soup?

How to make five element vegetable soup

The first approach:

Recipe Ingredients:

About 400 grams (8 liang) of white radish, about 200 grams (4 liang) of radish leaves, about 200 grams (4 liang) of carrots, 3 dried shiitake mushrooms, about 200 grams (4 liang) of fresh burdock roots or about 25 grams of dried burdock (an error of about 20% is acceptable for the above ingredients).

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Preparation method:

1. Wash the radish and cut it with the skin on, because the skin contains rich biomass.

2. When cooking soup, use an aluminum pot or heat-resistant glassware; use a glass bottle to store the soup.

3. Cut the radish into large pieces with the skin on, do not cut it into small pieces.

4. Add three times the amount of water as the total amount of vegetables. After boiling over high heat, simmer on low heat for 1 to 2 hours, and you can drink it after turning off the heat (do not lift the lid to check while it is cooking, do not perform any further processing on the soup, and do not add other herbs or ingredients).

Second method:

Recipe Ingredients:

White radish (about one-quarter of a medium-sized one), white radish leaves (use about one-quarter of large radish leaves, soak the radish leaves in water for two hours before use to avoid pesticide residues), red radish (about one-half of a medium-sized one), burdock (about one-half of a medium-sized one), one dried shiitake mushroom (dried in the sun to convert vitamin D. If you can't buy them, you can use fresh sun-dried ones or use those sold in the market that have been exposed to the sun again).

Preparation method:

Do not blanch the vegetables beforehand and cut them into large pieces with the skin on. Please use a heat-resistant glass pot for cooking. Add three times the amount of water as the vegetables.

After the water boils, simmer over low heat for 2 hours. Drink vegetable soup instead of tea. Make two days' worth of it at a time. After it's done, put it into a glass, porcelain or ceramic container and store it in the refrigerator. Slightly warm it when drinking.

The third approach:

Recipe Ingredients:

1/4 white radish, 1/4 bunch of white radish leaves, 1/2 carrot, 1/4 burdock or 20-30 grams of burdock tea, and one dried shiitake mushroom.

Preparation method:

Wash the ingredients, cut into large pieces, put them in a stainless steel pot or glass pot, boil over high heat with 3 times the amount of water in the dish, simmer over low heat for an hour, and then put into a glass container. After cooling, store in the refrigerator and drink within 3 days (600 ml/day for patients). (Note: Do not lift the lid before cooking, do not remove the foam floating on the soup, and do not mix other herbs or plants into the soup.)

The fourth approach:

Recipe Ingredients:

250g white radish (medium-sized) (11g dried), 125g white radish leaves (8.5g dried), 125g carrots (17.5g dried), 175g burdock (25g dried burdock slices), 2 dried shiitake mushrooms (need to be sun-dried)

Preparation method:

Wash all the ingredients, cut them into large pieces with the skin on, cook them in a stainless steel pot or a heat-resistant glass pot, add three times the amount of water as the vegetable, boil until boiling, then simmer over low heat for one hour. The vegetable residue can also be eaten.

Health Tips:

Five Elements Vegetable Soup is also called Five Color Health-Preserving Soup, which is made by boiling vegetables of five colors into soup. The so-called five colors refer to green, red, yellow, white and black vegetables. Green represents white radish leaves, red represents carrots, yellow represents burdock, white represents white radish and black represents mushrooms. They represent the five elements of gold, wood, water, fire and earth respectively.

It is said that the five-color health-preserving soup conforms to the theory of Chinese medicine that the five elements correspond to the five internal organs of the body: black food nourishes the kidneys, white food nourishes the lungs, green food nourishes the liver, red food nourishes the blood, and yellow food nourishes the spleen and stomach.

The Five Elements Vegetable Soup can be drunk as tea on weekdays, several times a day, with more than 200ml of "vegetable soup" consumed in the morning, noon and evening. The total amount to be consumed per day is 600ml, and it should be consumed on an empty stomach before meals. The more you drink, the better, and it can be drunk hot or cold. The leftover soup can be used to cook dishes or make noodles, or poured into a container and stored in the refrigerator. If the soup becomes cloudy or sour, do not drink it. The more vegetables you put in, the better the effect is not necessarily the case. Please prepare according to the amounts shown in this recipe.