What are the benefits and contraindications of drinking sand root (Radix Adenophorae) soaked in water? It is better when used in soup with these ingredients

Sand root, also known as white ginseng, pao shen and sheep's milk, is a medicinal herb commonly found in low mountain grasslands or rock crevices. Because of its high nutritional value and its effects of relieving cough, nourishing the body and boosting immunity, it is widely used as a medicinal herb. At present, many people also like to soak it in water and drink it, so what are the benefits of drinking sand root soaked in water? What are the contraindications? It is better when used in soup with these ingredients!

1. What are the benefits of drinking sand root soaked in water?

1. Sand root can relieve cough and reduce phlegm

Sand root can relieve cough and reduce phlegm. The substances it contains, such as sitosterol and palmityl alcohol, have certain cough-relieving and phlegm-reducing effects. It has a good therapeutic effect on unpleasant conditions in humans such as cough, asthma and excessive phlegm.

2. Sand root can improve body immunity

Sand root can increase human cell activity and also enhance their cellular immune function. It can strengthen the balancing ability of the immune system in the human body, and sand root can also accelerate lymphocyte regeneration, thereby playing an important role in improving human immunity.

3. Sand root can promote lactation

Sand root also has a good relieving effect on women who have no milk after childbirth. Its lactation-promoting effect is very obvious. When needed, sand root can be stewed with lean pork and water. After stewing, eat the meat and drink the soup. In addition, sand root can clear heat and reduce internal fire. It also has a good therapeutic effect on toothache caused by deficient fire in humans. During treatment, sand root can be decocted into a soup, then eggs can be cooked in the medicinal soup, and then the eggs can be eaten and the soup drunk.

2. What are the contraindications of sand root?

Sand root is rich in nutrients and has excellent medicinal effects, but people with wind-cold cough cannot take it, and people without excess heat also cannot take it. In addition, during the period of taking sand root, spicy and stimulating foods cannot be eaten, otherwise its medicinal effect will be significantly reduced.

3. What is good to cook sand root in soup with?

1. Sand root and lily duck soup

Ingredients: northern sand root, lily, fatty duck meat, fragrant solomonseal rhizome, dwarf lilyturf root, ginger slices, bone broth, refined salt, monosodium glutamate

Method:

(1) Wash the prepared northern sand root, lily and fatty duck meat separately;

(2) Put all ingredients into a pot together, add an appropriate amount of water, and first bring to a boil over high heat for 20 minutes;

(3) Then simmer over low heat for 50 minutes until the duck meat is cooked and tender. After the soup is ready, add seasonings. It is then ready to eat and drink.

2. Sand root, fragrant solomonseal rhizome and pork rib soup

Ingredients: 300 g pork ribs, 10 g sand root, 10 g fragrant solomonseal rhizome, 30 g lotus seeds, 6 figs, 10 red dates, 1 slice ginger, appropriate amount of salt

Method:

(1) Add ginger to the pork ribs, boil in water for a while to remove the blood water;

(2) Remove the pits from the red dates and soak and wash them together with fragrant solomonseal rhizome, sand root, lotus seeds and figs;

(3) Put all ingredients into a soup pot, add an appropriate amount of water and stew for 2 hours;

(4) After stewing, add salt to season and it is ready.

3. Sand root, white fungus and chicken soup

Materials: old chicken, winter melon, white fungus, sand root, fragrant solomonseal rhizome, several slices of ginger, a little cooking wine, salt, appropriate amount of sugar

Method:

(1) First remove the skin from the old chicken, then blanch and wash it clean for later use.

(2) Keep the skin on the winter melon, wash it clean and cut it into large pieces. Soak the white fungus in water, wash it clean and tear it into small pieces. Soak the sand root and fragrant solomonseal rhizome in water and wash them clean.

(3) After the water in the clay pot comes to a boil, add the old chicken, sand root, fragrant solomonseal rhizome, ginger and cooking wine. After bringing to a boil over high heat, turn to low heat and stew for about three hours.

(4) Add the winter melon and white fungus, then stew over low heat for two hours. Add an appropriate amount of salt and sugar to season and it is ready to serve.

4. Sand root and goji berry chicken soup

Ingredients: 1/4 chicken, appropriate amount of sand root, appropriate amount of goji berries, appropriate amount of salt, appropriate amount of monosodium glutamate

Method:

(1) Wash the sand root and goji berries in advance and soak them in water for a while. Wash the chicken clean and cook it with a small amount of water.

(2) After boiling for a while, turn off the heat, pour out the soup water, wash the chicken clean, put it back into the pot with more than half a pot of water and cook together with the sand root.

(3) After bringing to a boil over high heat for a few minutes, turn to medium-low heat and continue cooking. When about half a pot of soup water remains, add the goji berries and continue cooking over low heat.

(4) After about ten minutes, add an appropriate amount of salt and monosodium glutamate to season and it is ready.