About the recipes
In autumn and winter, many friends are defeated by the dry weather. They have either sore throats or cough, and their skin is going to dry out. Sweet lemon balm can relieve this syndrome efficiently. Rock sugar can clear away heat and moisten lung, and lemon can eliminating phlegm and stopping cough. Both of them are stewed for more than 10 hours and are cooled to balm shape.Eating it regularly can nourish yin, moisten dryness and clear heat. Its taste is sweet, a little bit sour and astringent. It has a certain effect on pharyngeal inflammation, cough, excessive phlegm and pertussis in child
Efficacy
Lemons are rich in vitamin C, sugar, calcium, phosphorus, iron, vitamin B1, vitamin B2, niacin, quinic acid, citric acid, malic acid, hesperidin, naringin, coumarin, high potassium and low sodium, which is very beneficial to human' s bodies. Vitamin C can maintain the production of various tissues and intercellular substance, and maintain their normal physiological function. Vitamin C is needed to protect the parent material, adhesion and gelation in human body. When vitamin C is absent, intercellular stroma--the amount of gelatinous material decreases as following. In this way, the cell tissue will become brittle, and lose the ability to resist external forces. The human body will be prone to bad blood disease.
Ingredients
| 1000 | g | Rock sugar |
| 100 | g | Honey |
| 500 | g | Lemon |
Cooking Steps
- Soak the lemons in the salt water, then wash them. Weigh the lemons and the rock sugar. Rock sugar weighs twice as much as lemon.
- Remove both ends of lemons. Slice them and remove the seeds.
- A layer of lemon and a layer of ice sugar are repeatedly overlapped to cover the stew pot
- Stew for 15 hours. Stir it halfway.
- It's balm shape when it's cooled. Take a spoon and soak it in a cup. The sweetness of rock sugar and the fragrance of lemon spread in the mouth with a little bit acerbity.
