Guangdong Noodle Soup · Clear and Moist Edition: Clear and Moist Edition

Author: Qin Yanfen
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Publish Date: 2004-05-01
Features: This book features 180 types of Guangdong-style clear and nourishing soups, primarily using common vegetables, fruits, dried fruits, beans, and traditional Chinese medicinal herbs, paired with various poultry, aquatic products, and mountain delicacies. Based on the geographical climate and dietary habits of Lingnan, as well as the prevalence of conditions such as damp-heat, damp-toxin, damp-stagnation, summer-heat, and dry-fire, the soups are designed to provide effects like clearing heat, detoxifying, reducing fire, cooling summer heat, moisturizing, promoting bowel movement, and anti-cancer. The book outlines the selection and preparation knowledge of Guangdong clear and nourishing soups, categorizing them into thirteen major types based on their therapeutic effects:
1. Clearing heat, detoxifying, and cooling
2. Clearing heat, cooling summer heat, and dispelling dampness
3. Clearing the lungs, resolving phlegm, and relieving cough
4. Strengthening the spleen, resolving stagnation, and stimulating the appetite
5. Clearing heat, promoting diuresis, and relieving constipation
6. Lowering blood sugar, reducing fat, and lowering blood pressure
7. Clearing heat, cooling blood, and stopping bleeding
8. Clearing heat, detoxifying, and reviving from smoking/drinking
9. Nourishing yin, moisturizing dryness, and enhancing beauty
10. Strengthening the brain, calming the mind, and improving intelligence
11. Post-illness, post-surgery, and postpartum recovery
12. Detoxifying, anti-cancer, and preventing cancer
13. Dispelling wind, promoting blood circulation, and soothing muscles
Each soup recipe clearly lists its effects, ingredients, and preparation methods, with brief explanations of the functions and contraindications of the main ingredients. The ingredients are easily sourced, and the preparation is simple. The soups made according to the recipes are delicious and offer both culinary and therapeutic benefits, making them ideal for daily health maintenance and disease prevention in households.