Introduction: With the heating on, your throat feels like it's on fire, you have mouth ulcers, and your bowel movements are dry. What should you do?
Fire-Reducing Soup ― Winter Melon with Seaweed
Many families love to make tomato and cucumber slice soup, but the best soup for winter is actually winter melon soup. Remember to add dried shrimp and seaweed. These two ingredients from the sea are effective for replenishing calcium and reducing internal heat. When it comes to eating pears, many people struggle; they get diarrhea after eating just half a pear. For those with a weak and cold spleen and stomach, the best way is to make rock sugar pear water. It can protect the stomach and intestines while also reducing internal heat.
Dried Scallop and Winter Melon Soup
Moistening Remedy: Sesame Oil for External and Internal Use
Besides its common use in cold dishes, sesame oil can also help when the heating makes your nasal passages dry, especially for people from the south on business trips in the north who are prone to nosebleeds. In this case, you can use an eye dropper bottle to put some sesame oil. Before getting off the plane, squeeze a little sesame oil from the bottle onto a cotton swab and gently apply it from the inside to the outside of your nasal passages for guaranteed comfort. If you feel a dry throat every morning after waking up, you can also swallow 10ml of sesame oil before bed to let it form a protective layer in your throat. To soothe the roof of your mouth, you can hold a small spoonful of sesame oil in your mouth, lie down, and then swallow.
Lung-Cleansing Dish: Radish in Two Ways
In winter, you can also choose the inexpensive, green-skinned, and spicy Weiqing radish. If you can't remember which radish is best, just buy the cheapest one at the market; Weiqing radishes are often sold in large bundles for just two yuan. Weiqing radishes promote bowel movements, warm the stomach, and stimulate intestinal peristalsis. They add a special flavor to dough drop soup. The thicker, white-skinned radishes are suitable for two preparations: you can slice them and eat them like fruit, or you can steam them with rock sugar. Eating some radishes every week helps regulate qi, moisten the lungs, and promote bowel movements.
Cilantro and Radish
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Nourishing the Spleen and Stomach: Tremella and Hyacinth Bean Porridge
It's good to steam some yam to eat regularly, preferably iron yams that are as thick as a finger. This is especially helpful for those with a weak and cold spleen and stomach who are prone to diarrhea, as yam can help stop diarrhea. In addition, hyacinth beans and tremella also have nourishing effects; you can add them to porridge and cook them until they are soft and glutinous for the best effect. Tremella also has a small external remedy: when cooked until soft and glutinous, you can apply it to your heels to prevent them from cracking.
Expert Reminder: Food is not as fast-acting as medicine. To achieve medicinal effects from food, you must choose the right foods, eat them correctly, and persist for a long enough time. This is especially important for those with chronic conditions.
Dried Tangerine Peel, Tremella, and Mung Bean Soup