What kind of stew is good to drink after lung surgery?

Lung surgery is also a relatively common surgical method. For example, patients with early lung cancer need surgical treatment during the removal of lung tumors. After lung cancer surgery, the patient's immunity is relatively poor. At this time, timely dietary adjustments are required. You can drink some soups that moisturize and clear the lungs to enhance nourishment, thereby improving the patient's body's immune ability. For example, almond pig lung soup, radix adenophorae and lily lung moisturizing soup, etc., all have a good conditioning and health care effect, and help the patient's physical recovery. In addition to strengthening diet, you should usually get enough rest and maintain an optimistic and cheerful attitude.

What soup is good for the lungs?

1. Almond Pig Lung Soup

Ingredients: 10 grams of almonds, 250 grams of pig lungs, ginger, codonopsis, and salt as appropriate.

Method: Wash the pig lungs and cut them into pieces. Wash the almonds and put them into a casserole together with pig lungs, ginger, codonopsis and salt. Add water, bring to a boil and then simmer over low heat for two hours.

Efficacy: It can relieve cough and reduce phlegm, promote salivation and quench thirst, and moisten the intestines and promote bowel movements. It is especially beneficial for patients who often suffer from respiratory diseases.

2. Adenophora and Lily Lung-Moistening Soup

Ingredients: 15 grams of Northern Adenophora, 30 grams of lily, five figs, 18 grams of lean pork, and 1 piece of tangerine peel.

Preparation: Wash the figs and cut them in half. Wash the lean pork, blanch it, and wash the northern adenophora, tangerine peel, and lily. Put all the ingredients into boiling water and continue to cook over medium heat for about two hours. Add a little salt to taste and it is ready to drink.

Efficacy: Northern Adenophora, lily and fig all have the effects of nourishing yin and moistening the lungs, moistening dryness and clearing the throat. Combined with lean pork that nourishes yin and tangerine peel that promotes qi and strengthens the spleen, dries dampness and resolves phlegm, it can also moisturize the throat, protect the vocal cords, facilitate bowel movements, and prevent hemorrhoids.

3. Snow Ear and Duck Kidney Soup

Ingredients: 20 grams of snow fungus, 3 to 4 cured duck kidneys, 200 grams of lean pork, and 3 slices of ginger.

Preparation: Soak the snow fungus and tear it into small pieces; wash the cured duck kidneys, soak them in warm water, and cut them into thick slices; wash the lean pork and cut it into pieces. Put them together with ginger in a clay pot, add 2000 ml of water (about 8 bowls), boil over high heat, then simmer over low heat for about 1.5 hours, then add salt.

Efficacy: Tremella can cure palpitations, insomnia, neurasthenia, nourish the skin, treat fatigue cough, deficiency heat and thirst, metrorrhagia in women, constipation, etc. The soup made with cured duck kidney is refreshing, sweet and delicious, and has the effects of strengthening the spleen and stomach, moistening the lungs and relieving cough.

4. Apple and Fritillaria Chicken Soup

Ingredients: half a three-yellow chicken, 2 apples, 15 grams of longan meat, 15 grams of Fritillaria cirrhosa, and a few slices of ginger.

Method: Wash the three-yellow chicken and cut it into small pieces. Blanch the chicken in boiling water, rinse with clean water and drain. Add 6 bowls of water into the soup pot and put the blanched chicken pieces into the pot. Wash the apples, cut into pieces and remove the core. Put the cleaned longan meat, Fritillaria cirrhosa, apple and ginger slices into the soup pot. Bring to a boil over high heat, then turn to low heat and simmer for 2 hours.

Efficacy: Eating apples regularly can improve the function of the respiratory system and lungs. Stewing apples with Sichuan Fritillaria, which has the functions of clearing away heat and reducing phlegm, moistening the lungs and relieving coughs, can achieve the effect of moistening the lungs and relieving coughs. Adding nutritious chicken and longan meat to the soup can further replenish qi and blood, clear the heart and nourish the lungs.

5. Pear and Tremella Soup

Ingredients: 1 snow pear, 30 grams of water-soaked white fungus, 5 grams of Fritillaria, and appropriate amount of white sugar.

Preparation method: Remove the roots and impurities of the soaked white fungus, wash it, and tear it into small pieces; peel and seed the pear, and cut it into several pieces. Put white fungus slices, snow pear pieces, Fritillaria and sugar in a stewing dish and steam for 30-40 minutes. Take out and serve.

Efficacy: This soup nourishes yin, clears the lungs, eliminates phlegm and reduces fire.