June 28, 2019
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【愛心湯水】媽媽總愛為有咳的家人煲鱷魚肉湯
鱷魚肉湯健脾益氣
感冒過後的咳嗽很難纏，不少人以為喝鱷魚肉湯可以止咳，其實也是一個謬誤，調理還是要配合體質為重 。鱷魚肉性熱，具健脾益氣、燥濕化痰的功效，因此鱷魚肉湯應該是在感冒咳嗽痊癒後或有寒痰（色白、質清稀）時飲用，以強化肺臟。當患上感冒及咳嗽時，已不應飲湯進補，應該祛除外邪，而不是補益肺臟，尤其風熱型感冒患者，病徵為發燒、喉嚨痛、咳嗽有黃綠痰、口乾等，再飲屬性溫熱的鱷魚肉湯更會加重症狀！
健脾益氣湯水小貼士：
適當地添加健脾益氣食材如白扁豆、淮山、茯苓、太子參、黨參、北芪等。
雪梨鱷魚肉川貝湯
功效：健脾益氣、燥濕化痰、強化肺臟，紓緩感冒後呼吸道不適、呼吸道不暢順等症狀
材料：雪梨2個、鱷魚肉乾30克、川貝10克、陳皮1角、南北杏40克、無花果3-4枚
做法：
1. 所有材料洗淨，雪梨去皮去芯切塊；鱷魚肉乾汆水備用。
2. 鍋內加入約2500毫升水，全部材料加入鍋裡，以武火煮至水滾，調文火煮約2小時，最後下鹽調味即可。
3. 注意：感冒未清、咳嗽初起、熱性咳嗽者不宜飲用。
Crocodile meat soup can strengthen spleen and nourish qi
A cough after a cold is difficult to recover from. Many people think that drinking crocodile meat soup can help with that, but that is actually not true. You should choose ingredients according your body condition. Crocodile meat is hot in nature. It can strengthen spleen, nourish qi, eliminate dampness and clear phlegm. Therefore, crocodile meat soup should be used to strengthen the lungs after you have recovered from cold/flu or from having cold phlegm (white and thin). When you have cold and cough, you should not drink soup to nourish the body. You should clear the invasion of exogenous pathogens and not nourishing your lungs and spleen. This is especially true for the wind-heat type cold patients, the symptoms are fever, sore throat, cough, yellow-green phlegm, dry mouth, etc. Drinking crocodile meat soup which is hot in nature will aggravate the symptoms!
Tips for soup to strengthen spleen and nourish qi:
Appropriately add in ingredients such as hyacinth bean, Chinese yam, poria, radix pseudostellariae, codonopsis root and astragalus root, etc.
Crocodile meat soup with pear and chuan bei
Effects: Strengthens spleen and nourishes qi, eliminates dampness, clears phlegm and strengthens the lungs. Alleviate symptoms such as respiratory discomfort after a cold and troubled breathing .
Ingredients: 2 pears, 30g dried crocodile meat, 10g chuan bei, 1 dried citrus peel, 40g sweet and bitter almonds, 3-4 figs
Preparation:
1. Rinse all ingredients thoroughly. Peel and core pears and cut into pieces. Blanch dried crocodile meat.
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 2 hour. Add salt to taste.
3. Note: It is not suitable for those recovering from a cold/flu, those with early coughing or hot cough.
