12/26/2021
Winter time soup recipe: for improving the immune system & antioxidants, brighten the skin, and good for chronic diarrhea;
All the foods are herbs.
lots of Chinese herbs are very gentle and can be consider as food for daily use.
Today I am going to introduce a traditional soup recipe: Astragalus (Huangqi) & Chinese Yam (Shanyao) with pork rib bone.
Astragalus 10g, shanyao 300g,
Pork rib bone: 2Lbs,
Dates: 6 pieces,
Gouqi 3g;
Carrot 100g;
Diabetes patients have to remove dates from the recipe;
Astragalus: in the soup, it uses for improving the immune system & antioxidants;
Research found Astragalus can significantly increase the total number of white blood cells in the blood, promote the function of neutrophils and macrophages, improve the Nature-Killer cell activity, also increase the IgM and IgE in the plasma, so that promote humoral and cellular immunity.
Astragalus has an antioxidant effect, which can reduce the content of lipid peroxide and liver lipofuscin in animal serum, so it can extend cell lifespan to achieve the purpose of slowing down aging;
Astragalus appears to lower blood sugar, for treating diabetes;
Chinese Yam,
In the soup, it can it uses for improving the immune system & antioxidants, brighten & rejuvenation of the skin.
As the herbs, Chinese Yam always in the formular with the function as follows:
Adjust the Gastrointestinal motility, thereby treat the symptoms as: poor appetite, chronic diarrhea, asthma, dry coughs, frequent urination and diabetes;
It also contains trace amounts of zinc, manganese, iron, copper, and selenium, and that taking it as a daily supplement as an antioxidants,
It is a very nutritious food which including: vitamin B-1, vitamin C, mucilage, amylase, amino acids, glutamine;
It doesn’t contain estrogen, but it has properties that can cause it to act like a mild form of estrogen, so it is really good for brighten & rejuvenation of the skin. Because of this, pregnant or breast-feeding women should avoid it, as should women with hormone-sensitive disorders such as endometriosis, uterine fibrosis
breast, uterus, or ovaries cancer.