With the popularity of medicinal diet, more and more people like to add some Chinese herbal medicines when boiling soup to achieve the effect of strengthening the body. Some people may use Smilacis Glabra to cook soup, but due to our lack of understanding of the effects and functions of some Chinese herbal medicines, we may enter some misunderstandings when eating them. So, what are the effects and functions of Smilacis Glabra soup? Generally speaking, it has the effects of detoxifying, strengthening the body, improving immunity, promoting saliva secretion and relieving thirst.

Effects and Functions of Smilacis Glabra Soup

1. Detoxification: Smilacis Glabra is a kind of cool and cold Chinese herbal medicine. Eating it can relieve the heat in the body, has the effect of clearing heat and cooling blood, and is suitable for people with hot stagnation. While stewing soup, it will intake rich water, which is beneficial for promoting saliva secretion, quenching thirst, clearing heat and relieving summer heat. Therefore, regularly drinking Smilacis Glabra soup has a good dietary effect on people with internal heat, dry mouth and thirst due to heat.

2. Strengthening the body: Smilacis Glabra contains mineral elements such as zinc, potassium, iron, and magnesium, as well as various trace elements needed by the human body, which has good medicinal effects. Therefore, stewing it in soup and drinking it can supplement nutritional elements, strengthen the body, and is very beneficial to the body.

3. Boosting immunity: Smilacis Glabra is rich in nutrients, which can inhibit cellular immunity and has good anti-inflammatory, antibacterial, and antifungal effects. White-collar workers who are often in a sub-health state can eat more to enhance their immunity and reduce the risk of illness.

Suitable and Unsuitable People for Cooking Soup

1. Suitable people: Smilacis Glabra soup has good dietary effects and is suitable for people with weak constitution and anemia.

2. Unsuitable people: Some people who are allergic to Smilacis Glabra and other Chinese herbal medicines are advised to avoid eating Smilacis Glabra soup to prevent allergic reactions.

Home-style Cooking Methods for Soup

1. Smilacis Glabra Old Turtle Soup: Ingredients: 15 grams of Smilacis Glabra, 1 grass turtle, red dates, lean meat, ginger. Seasonings: appropriate amount of clear soup, salt, Shaoxing wine, and a little pepper powder. Method: First, cut Smilacis Glabra into thin slices, clean the grass turtle, cut it into large pieces, cut the lean meat into pieces, peel and slice the ginger. Pour an appropriate amount of water into the pot, and when the water boils, put in the grass turtle and lean meat, cook for 5 minutes over medium heat until the blood disappears, then pick it up and rinse it clean. Then put Smilacis Glabra, grass turtle, red dates, lean meat, and ginger into the clay pot, add clear soup, Shaoxing wine, and pepper powder, cover with a lid and simmer for 3 hours over low heat. Season with salt and simmer for another 20 minutes.

2. Fresh Smilacis Glabra and Red Bean Soup with Pig Spine: Ingredients: Smilacis Glabra, Red Bean, Pig Spine, Ginger, about 8 bowls of water. Method: Clean the outer skin of Smilacis Glabra and cut it into pieces. Soak the red beans. Cut the pig spine into pieces. Put all the ingredients into the clay pot. After boiling over high heat, turn to low heat and simmer for one and a half hours.