Clearing heat, nourishing the lungs and relieving cough decoction

Clearing heat, nourishing the lungs and relieving cough decoction

Overview

The synonyms of sword flower include Tianchi flower, Overlord flower, Seven-star sword flower, Dragon bone flower and Overlord whip. [Nature and flavor] "Guangdong Traditional Chinese Medicine" II: sweet, slightly cold. [Functions and Indications - Efficacy of Jianhua] ① "Lingnan Medicine Collection": relieves gas pain, relieves phlegm and fire-fire cough, decoct it with pork and take it. ②Guangzhou Air Force's "Commonly Used Chinese Herbal Medicine Manual": clears away heat, moistens the lungs, and relieves coughs. Watercress is also called watercress. Watercress is sweet, slightly bitter and cold in nature. It has the effects of clearing dryness and moisturizing the lungs, resolving phlegm and relieving cough, and being a diuretic. It is a health-care vegetable that is beneficial to the brain and fitness. The Origin of Watercress There is quite a legend about the introduction of watercress in China. Legend has it that there was a businessman named Huang Sheng from Guangdong who was doing business in Portugal. Due to the unfamiliarity of the people and the language barrier, it was difficult to do business, and he was tired from running the business, so he fell ill soon after. The doctor diagnosed him with lung disease. The disease was considered a terrible and incurable disease at the time. Most people with this disease do not live long and can infect others. Huang Sheng fell ill in a foreign country and had no money to return to his hometown for treatment, so he was in trouble. The local government was afraid that Huang Sheng would infect others with his lung disease, so he was ordered to be driven to a desolate wilderness for isolation. At that time, Huang Sheng was poor and ill, and his hunger and desire for survival prompted him to pick a wild vegetable growing in shallow water to satisfy his hunger. After a while, a miracle happened. His cough subsided, his vomiting of blood stopped, his face gradually became rosy, and his limbs became stronger. After eating it for several years, the stubborn disease of lung disease was finally conquered by mizuna. Huang Sheng recovered his health and returned to Lisbon to continue doing business. His family gradually became more prosperous, and he married a wife and had children. In the 1930s, when Huang Sheng and his wife returned to their hometown to visit relatives, they brought the seeds of this kind of watercress back to their hometown in Zhongshan County, Guangdong for planting. They gave some of the seeds to relatives and friends in Macao, and later introduced them to Hong Kong. From then on, this vegetable and medicinal water dish began to benefit the Chinese people, and also benefited compatriots in Hong Kong and Macao. Since Macau people at that time used to call the Portuguese Westerners, they called this water dish watercress. Today, people in Guangdong, Hong Kong and Macao continue to use this name. As for its famous name watercress, few people know it. People in Hong Kong and Macao pay attention to soup, such as stewing watercress, lean pork or duck kidney, stewing the watercress until black, and then drinking it together with the soup. There is a soup in the restaurant called fresh and aged watercress kidney soup, which is stewed with fresh duck kidney, dried duck kidney and watercress, plus longan meat. It tastes great! Folk custom is to stew pig lungs, pork bones or pig blood with watercress; Guangzhou also stews pig lungs, cuttlefish and watercress, plus a few candied dates, and simmers for two to three hours until the stems and leaves are all soft and rotten. Hong Kong and Macao people, who have always paid attention to the quality of life, love watercress so much, which shows its high health value. In the winter and spring of Hong Kong and Macao, the climate is cold and dry, and the defense function of the upper respiratory tract mucosa of the human body is relatively weakened, making it susceptible to bacteria and viruses. Symptoms such as dry throat, sore throat, hoarseness, cough with thick phlegm, and constipation may occur. At this time, watercress, which has good functions of moistening the lungs and relieving coughs, is on the market. Eating it can help people spend the end of the year peacefully, and it is known as a natural clearing and lung-saving soup.

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Steps

  1. A handful of watercress.

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  2. Take an appropriate amount of watercress, pick and wash it.

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  3. sword flowers, washed.

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  4. Wash and cut the pork into pieces, chop the pork bones into small pieces and wash them.

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  5. Add pork bones, sword flowers and appropriate amount of water to the casserole and simmer for 3 hours.

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  6. Before eating, add salt to taste.

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  7. Add watercress and blanch until cooked.

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  8. Finally, serve it out.

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