Mung Bean and Kelp Sweet Soup (绿豆海带糖水)

Ingredients:
1. Hai dai (海带) kelp 50 g
2. Lu dou (绿豆) mung bean 200 g
3. Sheng jiang (生姜) fresh ginger 10 g
4. Bing tang (冰糖) crystal sugar: a specific amount
Cooking methods:
1. Soak the kelp in water for 60 minutes, rinse, and cut into small pieces.
2. Rinse the mung bean
3. Put the kelp, mung bean and ginger slices in a pot and add 4 liters of cold water.
Bring to boil and then turn to medium heat. Cooking until ingredients are tender
(around 60 minutes).
4. Add the sugar; stir until the sugar is dissolved.
Function:
1. Cold hot syndrome, clear away pathogenic heat and summer heat
2. Induce diuresis
3. Loss weight
4. Prevent hypertension, high cholesterol and coronary heart disease
5. Detoxification