30 days and 30 diets to help you become a health expert in a month! Every summer, it is recommended that you boil a bowl of sour plum soup to drink, which can solve problems such as sweating, thirst, weakness in limbs, and insomnia.
Sour plum soup has been a good summer drink since ancient times, and it is also a unique drink in our old Beijing. Someone once described it as "hot to cool it, dry to clear it". It is said that the sour plum soup was particularly loved by the Qianlong Emperor, and every midsummer, a bowl of sour plum soup was served before and after the meal. [Three major effects of sour plum soup, most suitable for drinking in summer] 1. The real ancient sour plum soup is also called black plum soup, which can be a good medicine for treating temperature diseases before being put in. It can not only reduce liver fire, but also help the spleen and stomach to digest and nourish the liver. When you stay up late at work or are mentally exhausted, drinking a cup of black plum soup is a great way to refresh your mind!
2. Traditional Chinese medicine believes that sour plum soup has three major benefits: clearing heat and relieving heat, quenching thirst and strengthening the stomach, which is very suitable for drinking in summer, especially for people with yin deficiency and easy thirst. 3. At the same time, the sour taste has an astringent effect, some people have a weak spleen and stomach, easy to diarrhea, can not drink mung bean soup, can use some sour plum soup, relieve the heat and at the same time can stop diarrhea.
【Note】Although sour plum soup is good, it has an astringent effect, so it is not suitable for drinking when we need to "diverge". Experts remind these 3 conditions not to drink: (1) frequent constipation; (2) depressed recently; (3) You have a fever and a cold. The most important medicine in this bowl of sour plum soup is black plum. "Shennong's Materia Medica" says: "Black plum, sour taste, flat." The main breath, in addition to the heat and annoyance, peace of mind. "What do you mean? In other words, it allows the qi to run downward, eliminates the feeling of heat and boredom, and calms the mind. The sour taste enters the liver, and Liu Hongen, a famous doctor in the Qing Dynasty, described that black plum is the purest among the sour herbs, which can best replenish the liver, converge the liver, and produce blood.
Hawthorn and mulberries were also put in. Because people's appetite is generally not too good in summer, blood pressure and blood lipids are also easy to fluctuate, and hawthorn has the effect of eliminating food and strengthening the stomach, dissipating qi and stasis, and more importantly, it can also dissolve turbidity and reduce lipids, which can help friends with three high problems to control blood pressure and blood lipids. Mulberries can nourish yin and blood, nourish the intestines, and help them improve constipation.
In addition, tangerine peel, roselle, licorice, mint and osmanthus can be added, with these medicines, this bowl of sour plum soup is cooler and more delicious while clearing the heart and removing troubles. 【Qingxin Sour Plum Soup】【Ingredients】: 25g of black plum, 10g of hawthorn, 10g of mulberry, 6g of tangerine peel, 5g of roselle, 5g of licorice, 1g of mint, appropriate amount of rock sugar, 3g of osmanthus [Method]: 1. Put all the ingredients into the pot after cleaning, add 1200ml~1500ml of water, and soak for half an hour;2. Then turn on high heat and boil, then turn to low heat and cook for 40 minutes, filter out the ingredients;3. Add an appropriate amount of yellow rock sugar to the juice, and then simmer for 15 minutes. After turning off the heat, add 3g of osmanthus and drink. 【Note】Children can add 5 grams of hawthorn, 5 grams of white grass root, and 3 grams of Huoxiang on the basis of the above, which can have the effect of strengthening the spleen and appetizing.