Ingredients: Scallions, aged ginger slices, brown sugar to taste. Method: 1. Rinse scallions and ginger slices thoroughly. 2. Place scallions and ginger slices in a small pot. Add water to reduce to half a bowl. Strain out solids, add a small amount of brown sugar, and serve.
Note: This soup promotes sweating to expel pathogens, dispels cold, and invigorates yang energy. It primarily treats wind-cold colds and is especially effective for children with wind-cold colds accompanied by coughs.
Ginger and Autumn Pear Soup
Ingredients: 5 slices of ginger, 1 autumn pear, brown sugar to taste.
Method:
1. Wash the ginger and autumn pear separately, then slice thinly and set aside.
2. Place sliced ginger and pear in a pot with two bowls of water. Bring to a boil over high heat, then reduce to low heat and simmer for 15 minutes. Add a small amount of brown sugar to taste.
Note: This soup helps relieve coughs and dissolve phlegm. It can assist in treating childhood colds with coughs, nasal congestion, and similar symptoms. Ginger is used to dispel wind-cold, primarily for treating mild cold symptoms.
Method: Thoroughly wash the cabbage including stems, chop finely, and simmer with ginger and scallion whites in sufficient water. Strain before serving.Ginger helps stop vomiting and loosen phlegm, treating wind-cold colds, nausea, bloating, and diarrhea. Radish, Ginger, and Jujube Soup Ingredients: 1 white radish, 1 piece ginger, jujubes, honey, etc. (all in appropriate amounts). Method: 1. Wash the radish and ginger separately, pat dry, and slice thinly. Set aside.
2. Place 5 slices of white radish, 3 slices of ginger, and 3 jujubes in a pot. Add one bowl of water, bring to a boil, and simmer for 20 minutes. Strain out the solids, reserving the liquid.
Note: This soup is suitable for early stages of colds or cold prevention. From a therapeutic perspective, ginger and brown sugar water is only suitable for wind-cold colds or patients with fever after getting wet in the rain. It should not be used for summer-heat colds or wind-heat colds. Fresh ginger juice can treat vomiting caused by exposure to cold.
Scallion and Coriander Soup
Ingredients: Scallion whites, coriander, and other ingredients as needed.
Method: Wash both ingredients thoroughly, combine them, and simmer in an appropriate amount of water.
Note: This soup has the effect of resolving exterior patterns and dispelling cold, suitable for wind-cold invasion.