Traditional Chinese Medicine Medicated Diet Recipe Book

Pork Back Bone with Apple and Pear Soup (雪梨苹果猪骨汤)

Ingredients:

1. Ping guo (苹果) apple 1


2. Li (梨) pear 1


3. Zhu ji g u (猪脊骨) Pork back bone 1 Ib


4. Wu hua guo (无花果) fig 2


5. Sheng jiang (生姜) fresh ginger 3 slices

Seasoning: pinch of salt

Cooking methods:

1. Rinse apples and pears, and then cut into pieces. Discard the seeds


2. Scald pork back bone in boiling water for a while. Dish up. Rinse figs


3. Put all ingredients in pot and add 2 liters of water. Bring to boil and then turn to
   medium heat. Cooking until ingredients are tender and soup thickens.


4. Add in seasoning and serve.

Function:

1. Moisturize the lung, relieve heat type cough and relieve phlegm


2. Remove summer heat and clear away pathogenic heat


3. Tone the kidney and nourish the blood


4. Replenishing yin-essence and moisten dryness of the viscera


5. Promote the production of body fluid


6. Relieve restlessness and thirsty


7. Promote functional activity of stomach


8. Dispel the effect of alcohol