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Lamb soup with DangGui, Ginger | 當歸生薑羊肉湯

Lamb soup with DangGui, Ginger

Ingredients:

Lamb 500g

DangGui (Angelica sinensis) 9g

Ginger 15g


Cooking method:

1. Wash and chop lamb into cubes, and slice ginger into large pieces for later use.

2. Put the lamb, ginger, and angelica slices into a pot, add enough water at a time, cook with high heat, skim off the foam after boiling, simmer for about one hour. When the lamb is well cooked, add little salt.

3. Enjoy the soup and meat all together.


Function:

Lamb soup with DangGui, Ginger was originally written by Zhang Zhongjing in the "Synopsis of the Golden Chamber", which consisted only of the three herbs of angelica, ginger and lamb. Mainly used for warming and nourishing blood, dispelling cold and relieving pain.


Lamb soup with DangGui, Ginger has a wide range of indications. It can be used to treat relieve hernias pain, abdominal pain, and pain in hypochondiac region. It can also be used for postpartum conditioning, such as, abdominal pain caused by Yang deficiency, low milk supply due to Blood deficiency, lochia, etc.


In Chinese food therapy, Lamb soup with DangGui, Ginger is especially benefit for people with weak and cold conditions. For patients with anemia who are aversion to cold, patients with chronic bronchitis who are old and physically weak, and those who suffer from malnutrition due to chronic diarrhea, this soup can be used as a support diet.


If you are tired from long-term work, mental stress, or live in a cold and humid place for a long time, causing fatigue, dizziness, insomnia, easily catch cold, and pale complexion, you may wish to use Lamb soup with DangGui, Ginger regularly.

 

當歸生薑羊肉湯:

食材:

當歸3兩; 生薑5兩(老薑為佳); 羊肉1斤


制法:

1、羊肉洗淨切成小塊,薑切成大片備用。

2、把羊肉塊、薑片、當歸片,放入砂鍋內,一次加足水量,大火燉煮,煮沸後撇去浮沫,調成中火繼續煮約一小時,待羊肉熟爛後,放入鹽調味,即可。

3、吃時連湯帶肉一起食用。


功效:

當歸生薑羊肉湯,最初是張仲景在《金匱要略》里記載了一個方子,僅由當歸、生薑、羊肉三味藥組成。主要用於溫中養血,祛寒止痛。


當歸生薑羊肉湯的適應症非常廣泛,可用於主治寒性的疝氣、腹痛、兩脅疼痛等,也可用於產後的調理,適用於婦女氣血虛弱,陽虛失溫所導致的腹部涼痛、血虛乳少、惡露不止等。


作為藥膳,當歸生薑羊肉湯特別適用於體質虛寒的人日常食用。對於怕冷的貧血病人、年老體虛的慢性支氣管炎患者,以及由於慢性腹瀉引起營養不良者,此湯均可作為輔助調理的藥膳。


如果由於長期工作勞累、精神緊張或長期處於陰冷潮濕之地,導致疲倦乏力、惡風怕冷、頭昏失眠、容易感冒、面色偏白,不妨將當歸生薑羊肉湯作為保健藥膳。


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