October 11, 2019
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【時令湯水】霸王花原來是仙人掌科植物的花蕾
#新鮮和乾品都可煲湯
#最適合紓緩秋天肺熱燥咳
#星期五湯水
霸王花湯清熱潤燥
秋天是燥邪旺盛的季節，其對應五臟為肺經，所以這個季節特別容易出現呼吸系統問題，例如咳嗽、咽喉痛等症狀，所以養生重點在於潤肺，肺臟「喜潤而惡燥」，適當滋潤肺臟就可減低秋燥對身體的影響。霸王花性寒，具有清心潤肺、清暑解熱、除痰止咳的功效，用來煲湯最適合秋天飲用。
潤肺湯水小貼士：
1／適當地添加潤肺食材如雪耳、石斛、杏仁、海底椰等。
2／新鮮霸王花及乾品功效及使用分量也相約，但新鮮相對水分較多，而且帶黏液，煲出的湯水會較濃稠，味道也較清甜，下次在街市看到有新鮮霸王花不妨試試。
霸王花沙參玉竹湯
功效：清熱潤燥，紓緩嘴唇乾、口渴、咽喉不適及便秘症狀。
材料：乾霸王花2朵 （或鮮霸王花1-2朵）、粟米2根、沙參20克、玉竹20克、百合15克、蜜棗2枚
做法：
1. 所有材料洗淨，粟米去衣切塊備用。
2. 鍋內加入約2500毫升水，放入全部材料，以武火煮至水滾，調文火煮約1.5小時，最後下鹽調味即可。
注意：寒咳、脾胃虛寒、容易腹瀉者不宜飲用。
Soup to clear heat and relieve dryness
Autumn is a season full of dry pathogens, and its corresponding organs are the lungs. People may be prone to respiratory problems, such as cough, sore throat and other symptoms, so the focus of health would be to moisten the lungs. The lungs like moisture and hate dryness. Appropriately moistening the lungs can reduce the impact of autumn dryness on the body. Night-blooming cereus is cold in nature, with the effect of clearing the heart and moistening lungs, clearing heat, clearing phlegm and relieving cough, it is best for making soup during autumn.
Tips for soup to moisten lungs:
1/ Appropriately add in ingredients that can moisten lungs such as snow fungus, dendrobium, almonds, sea coconut.
2/ The effect and serving of fresh and dried night-blooming cereus are about the same, but fresh one has higher water content and more sticky, so the soup will be thicker and sweeter. So try to buy the fresh one in the market next time.
Night-blooming cereus soup with radix adenophorae and radix ophiopogonis
Effects: clears heat and moistens dryness, relieves dry lips, thirst, throat discomfort, and constipation.
Ingredients: 2 dried night-blooming cereus (or 1-2 fresh night-blooming cereus), 2 ears of corns, 20g radix adenophorae, 20g polygonatum, 15g lily bulb, 2 candied dates
Preparation:
1. Rinse all ingredients. Peel corn, keep silk and cut into pieces.
2. Combine all ingredients with 2500ml of water in a pot and cook on high heat until boiling. Turn to low heat and simmer for 1.5 hour. Add salt to taste.
Note: Those with cold cough, weak and cold spleen and stomach, prone to diarrhea should not have this soup.
