Pork leg soup with papaya

Dec. 21, 2017-lili Chen, department of traditional Chinese medicine and pharmacy, zhongshan hospital, zhejiang province

Papaya is warm, sour, into liver, spleen, traditional Chinese medicine believed that papaya has the functions of relaxing tendons and activating collaterals, strengthening spleen and appetizing, relieving liver pain, removing wind and removing dampness, can be used for the prevention and treatment of rheumatism, dysentery, enteritis and so on. Papaya is both food and medicine, which contains rich nutrients and is an excellent green health food. The following to recommend a papaya diet recipe - papaya pig's feet soup.

Ingredients: 20 g papaya (Chinese medicinal herb), 10 g extender grass, 150 g pig's feet, 3 slices ginger.

Method: all materials cleaned, Chinese herbal medicine soup bag packed; Remove the hairs from pigs' feet and cut into pieces. Add the ginger to the pot and add water to it. Cook over low heat for 1.5 hours. Add salt and serve.

Efficacy: this medicinal diet has the effect of dispelling wind and dampness, replenishing liver and kidney. It has certain effects on joint disease, scapulohumeral periarthritis, lumbar leg pain and foot cold disease.

Tip: 1. Do not boil papaya in an iron pot. 2. The content of organic acids in papaya is higher, and it is better not to eat papaya in people who are suffering from excessive gastric acid.