Traditional Chinese medicine health preservation aims to maintain life to strengthen the body, enhance health, and promote longevity. Traditional Chinese medicine health preservation theories involve dietary taboos, daily living, mental regulation, exercise, medication, and other aspects. As the saying goes, 'dietary supplements are better than medicinal supplements.' To maintain good health, it is recommended to drink more soup. Below is a yam, ginkgo, and lily soup that is suitable for summer health preservation.
【 Composition of Soup Formula 】
50g fresh lily, 200g fresh yam, 10 dried lotus seeds, 10g goji berries, and 10 white fruits
Boil soup according to the above ratio and drink it. You can add rock sugar according to your taste (this amount can be consumed by 3-4 people)
Analysis of Soup Formula
Yam: Yam has a mild nature, sweet taste, and can nourish the spleen, lungs, and kidneys. It has the effects of nourishing the spleen and stomach, generating fluids and benefiting the lungs, and tonifying the kidneys and astringent essence. It can improve symptoms such as low appetite, prolonged diarrhea, persistent cough, nocturnal emissions, frequent urination, lower back pain, and thirst
Lily: Lily is slightly cold in nature, sweet in taste, and can nourish the heart and lung meridians. It has the effects of nourishing yin and moistening the lungs, nourishing the heart and calming the mind. It can improve symptoms such as dry mouth and throat, dry cough with less phlegm, blood in phlegm, irritability, insomnia, and dreams.
Ginkgo biloba: Ginkgo biloba, also known as white fruit, has the effects of unblocking blood vessels, protecting the liver, improving brain function, moisturizing the skin, anti-aging, treating senile dementia and cerebral ischemia.
Lotus seeds have a sweet and slightly astringent taste, with a balanced medicinal properties. They have the effects of calming the heart and mind, improving the body's immunity, and lowering blood pressure.
Goji berries have a sweet taste and a mild nature. They enter the liver and kidney meridians and can nourish essence and blood, as well as nourish the liver and kidneys.
【 Health benefits 】
Yam, Ginkgo, and Lily Soup has the effects of strengthening the spleen and kidney, moistening the lungs and relieving cough, nourishing yin and dryness, and calming the heart and mind. It can improve discomfort such as spleen deficiency, decreased appetite, fatigue and shortness of breath, dry cough, insomnia and dreams. Patients with spleen and stomach deficiency and cold can add 5g of dried ginger