Ingredients

  • Winter melon 200g (with skin)
  • Cornstalk 30g (pack)
  • Lean 50g
  • Ginger slices, a little salt

Principle

Winter melon clears heat and benefits water, expands gallbladder; corn purslane; lean flesh replenishes deficiency. The Nutrition Department of Tongji Hospital recommends that the skin of winter melon be thickened and the gallbladder be bloated; the all-round clearing heat and diuresis, and the gallbladder (need to be differentiated).

Effects & uses

Suitable for chronic cholecystitis with mild water and moisture, for daily light soup (must be differentiated).

Method

  1. Lean flesh drains cold water to remove bloody droplets.
  2. Winter melon with peel cut into pieces; corn mustard baked to remove fur packets.
  3. Boiling water into the pot, cook slowly for about 35 minutes, season with less salt before leaving the pot.

How to use

  • Drink soup, eat winter melon, lean meat, accompany the meal.

Caution

Salt should be reduced. It should not be stewed for more than 40 minutes to avoid weakening the diuretic effect. Acute biliary colic requires medical attention. No substitute for medication. Daily regimen.

Source

Department of Nutrition, Tongji Hospital affiliated to Tongji University; Xiamen Network and other winter melon corn beard lean broth finishing. To be manually verified.

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