Cactus Flower, Longli Leaf and Lean-Pork Soup

Why people make this soup

When the weather shifts, a lot of people find that the cough after a cold lingers on and on. As the saying goes, a long cough strains the lungs: lung yin becomes depleted, an empty heat smoulders inside, and you get a scant sticky phlegm, a hoarse voice, a dry mouth and throat, and dry stools. Nourilo shares this gentle soup to help ease that kind of dry, drawn-out cough.

Method

1. Soak and rinse the cactus flower; rinse the longli leaf; blanch (out-water) the lean pork.
2. Put everything into a pot with 2.4 L of water.
3. Simmer about 2 hours, down to roughly 1.2 L, and serve.

Nourilo’s Tips

This soup benefits chronic bronchitis, whooping cough, and lung conditions of the lung-heat type. But it is not suitable for people with a cold, sluggish stomach and poor appetite, or a cold-type cough.