Horseshoe Water with Bamboo Cane, Carrot and Horseshoe

This is a refreshing soup that is often boiled in spring in Guangdong and Hong Kong. It has a sweet taste, nourishing yin, nourishing body fluid, clearing away heat and detoxification. It is quite effective for common damp-heat skin diseases in spring and summer, as well as measles and chickenpox in children. A commonly used drink for warming and removing dampness and toxins.
Carrots are a combination of food and medicine. Modern nutrition believes that it is rich in carotene, which can invigorate the stomach and aid digestion and prevent diseases caused by vitamin A deficiency. Chinese medicine believes that it is warm in nature, sweet in taste, and pungent, enters the lungs and spleen meridian, can broadly promote qi, dissipate intestinal and stomach evil qi, and help digestion.
The coldness of horseshoe is sweet and has functions of clearing away heat, cooling blood, diuresis, laxative, detoxification, and resolving phlegm.
Bamboo cane is a kind of sugarcane, it is rich in many kinds of vitamins, many kinds of amino acids, calcium, phosphorus, iron and so on. Traditional Chinese medicine believes that it can clear away heat, relieve fire, moisturize dryness and detoxify, and is also the fruit of the spleen.
The grass root is sweet and cold in nature and enters the lung, stomach, and small intestine meridian. It can cool blood to stop bleeding, clear away heat and diuresis.
The above four materials are combined into a soup, which can clear the liver and stomach, moisturize the lungs and produce fluids, which can quench thirst and diuresis, clear heat and detoxify, and can nourish the heart and spleen, and relieve the poison of tobacco and alcohol. For those with cold-deficiency physique, a little tangerine peel and ginger can be added during frying. "