The soup culture in Guangdong has a long history, and the commonly used soup has become an indispensable delicacy on the dining tables of Guangdong people, bringing health to oneself and one's family. Today, we are sharing this kapok flower soup, which has the effects of relieving heat, clearing heat, and promoting dampness. It's perfect for drinking this season, and I hope you can also come and cook Cantonese soup.
【 Composition of Soup Formula 】
20 grams of cotton flowers, 10 grams of brown sugar, 5 pieces of fresh perilla, can be paired with pork ribs or crucian carp.
Boil soup according to the above ratio and drink it. Vegetarians can pair it with matsutake mushrooms and morel mushrooms. (This is a 2-3 person weight)
Analysis of Soup Formula
Kapok flower, also known as Panzhihua or Hero Tree flower, has a sweet and light taste with a slightly cold nature. It has the effects of relieving heat, clearing heat, and promoting dampness. Cotton flowers are rich in trace elements such as calcium, magnesium, potassium, and zinc, which have anti-inflammatory, antibacterial, and anticancer effects.
Perilla frutescens is warm in nature, capable of regulating qi, dispelling dampness and affecting the stomach, and dispersing cold. It can alleviate the wind cold and evil qi brought by air conditioning in summer, as well as discomfort symptoms such as chills, fatigue, heavy fatigue, chest tightness, and loss of appetite;.
【 Health benefits 】
Cotton blossom soup is very suitable for people who often stay in air-conditioned rooms in summer to take. It has good therapeutic effects on symptoms such as poor appetite, heavy body, heavy head, and joint muscle soreness caused by long-term invasion of cold and dampness pathogens, as well as diarrhea, diarrhea, abdominal pain caused by frequent consumption of barbecue and cold drinks and damp heat in the large intestine.