🌿 Folk Prescriptions

Winter is cold and extremely dry, making people prone to catching colds, coughing, and suffering from nasal inflammation. Below are several proven health food recipes for these common conditions:
Herbal Recipe for Wind-Heat Cold
Tea Bean Drink Ingredients: 30g mung beans, 9g tea leaves, appropriate amount of sugar.
Preparation: Wrap tea leaves in gauze, combine with mung beans, add water, and simmer until beans are cooked. Remove tea bag, dissolve sugar.
Usage: Drink warm, either all at once or in portions.
Benefits: Mung beans are sweet and cold, clearing heat and detoxifying, effective for febrile rash and toxin-related conditions. Tea promotes diuresis, sugar clears heat. Suitable for seasonal colds with sore throat, fever, and urinary discomfort or pain.
Mint Porridge
Ingredients: 15g mint, 60g glutinous rice, appropriate amount of rock sugar.
Preparation: Boil mint to extract juice, cool. Cook glutinous rice with water, add mint juice and rock sugar when porridge is nearly ready.
Usage: Consume slightly warm; best when sweating occurs.
Benefits: Mint is a key herb for dispersing wind-heat. Combined with glutinous rice and rock sugar, it promotes sweating and protects the stomach. Ideal for individuals with pre-existing gastric issues experiencing new wind-heat invasion.
Moistening Lung and Relieving Cough Health Food
Stewed Pork with Chestnuts Ingredients: 500g lean pork, 300g chestnuts, a little scallion and ginger, appropriate amounts of cooking wine, sugar, and soy sauce.
Preparation: Cut pork into small cubes, remove chestnut skins. Heat oil and sugar in a pan until reddish-brown, add soy sauce, then place pork, chestnuts, scallions, ginger, and cooking wine. Simmer until meat is tender.
Benefits: Moistens lungs, resolves phlegm, tonifies kidneys and spleen.
White Pear and Fritillary Bulb Soup
Ingredients: 2 white pears, 4g fritillary bulb, 75g rock sugar.
Preparation: Peel and core pears, cut into small pieces, place in a large bowl. Add fritillary bulb, rock sugar, and 150ml water. After boiling water in the pot, place the bowl in a steamer and steam for 1 hour. Serve warm.
Benefits: Moistens lungs, relieves cough, clears heat and phlegm.
Chronic Rhinitis Health Food Recipe
Asarum Egg Soup Ingredients: 10g asarum flowers, 2 eggs.
Preparation: Place asarum in a sandpot, add 2 bowls of water, simmer until reduced to 1 bowl. Boil eggs until cooked, remove shells, prick several small holes. Return the pot to fire, pour in the decoction, bring to boil, then add eggs and simmer briefly.
Usage: Drink soup and eat eggs. One day’s dose, divided into two servings.
Benefits: Disperses wind, opens nasal passages. Suitable for chronic sinusitis and purulent rhinorrhea.
Loofah Vine and Lean Pork Soup
Ingredients: 3–5 feet of loofah vine, 60g lean pork.
Preparation: Wash loofah vine, cut pork into chunks. Boil together in a pot until cooked, add a little salt for seasoning.
Usage: Drink soup and eat meat. One day’s dose, divided into two meals. A course lasts 5 days; repeat 1–3 courses.
Benefits: Clears heat, reduces inflammation, detoxifies, opens nasal passages. Suitable for acute flare-ups of chronic rhinitis, atrophic rhinitis, purulent rhinorrhea, heavy head, and headache.