Traditional Chinese Medicine Medicated Diet Recipe Book

Winter Melon Soup

General/Hypertension, CHD, Diabetes

Ingredients:
450g winter melon
100g Dai Dai
250g Pork Bone
3 slices ginger
2 stalk green onion
1 Tbsp rice wine
Salt to taste

Directions:

1. Blanch pork bone, drain and clean,


2. Clean and cut winter melon (with skin), Hai Dai.


3. Add water, ginger, green onion, pork bone, rice wine, salt, bring to boil and simmer for 1
   hour.


4. Add winter melon and hai dai and simmer for ½ hour..

Actions/Indications/Functions
o Clear summer heat, induce diurresis, treat edema, beriberi strabguria
o Detoxification
o Transform phlegm, treat cough and asthma with rale
o Soften hardness, dissipate nodule
o Weight loss
o Tonify kidney, nourish blood, replenish yin, moisten dryness, strengthen tendon
and bone