150 Traditional Chinese Medicinal Dishes (Part 1)

【Dish Name】 Bai Ji Bing Tang Yan Wo (White Atractylodes and Rock Sugar Bird’s Nest)【Characteristics】 Nourishes the lungs and yin, stops cough and bleeding. Suitable for hemoptysis due to pulmonary tuberculosis, chronic bronchitis in the elderly, emphysema, and asthma.【Ingredients】 10g bird’s nest, 15g Bai Ji (White Atractylodes)【Source】 Folk recipe【Preparation Process】 Prepare the bird’s nest as per the eating method, place it together with Bai Ji in a clay pot, add an appropriate amount of water, and steam in a water bath until very soft. Strain out the residue, add an appropriate amount of rock sugar, and steam for a while to complete.【Usage】 Take 1-2 times daily. 【Dish Name】 Bai Yang Shen Geng (White Lamb Kidney Soup)【Cuisine】 Zhejiang Cuisine【Characteristics】 Strengthens the kidneys and warms the spleen and stomach. Suitable for kidney deficiency with yang decline (impotence), weakness in the lower back and knees, spleen deficiency with poor appetite, and abdominal pain due to cold stomach.【Ingredients】 50g Rou Cong Rong (Cistanche), 10g Bi Ba (Cubeb), 10g Qing Guo (Green Fruit), 5g Chen Pi (Dried Tangerine Peel), 10g Pepper, 2 pairs of white lamb kidneys, 200g lamb fat, salt, scallions, soy sauce, yeast, ginger, and other seasonings as appropriate.【Preparation Process】 1. Clean the white lamb kidneys and lamb fat; place Rou Cong Rong, Chen Pi, Bi Ba, Qing Guo, and pepper in a cloth bag, tie it up, and put it in an aluminum pot with the lamb kidneys and lamb fat, adding enough water. 2. Place the aluminum pot on the stove, bring to a boil over high heat, then simmer on low heat until the lamb kidneys are fully cooked, adding scallions, ginger, yeast, and soy sauce as per usual method to make the soup.【Usage】 Eat the lamb kidneys and drink the soup. 【Dish Name】 Bai He Hong Zao Zhou (Lily and Red Date Porridge)【Characteristics】 This porridge is especially suitable for women. Glutinous rice is sweet and neutral, benefiting qi and stopping sweating; Bai He (Lily) is sweet and slightly cold.【Ingredients】 30g glutinous rice, 9g Bai He, 10 red dates, appropriate amount of white sugar.【Preparation Process】 1. First soak the Bai He in boiling water to remove some bitterness. 2. Rinse the glutinous rice, and cook it with Bai He and red dates over low heat until it becomes porridge, adding an appropriate amount of white sugar to complete.【Dish Name】 Bai He Zao Gui Tang (Lily and Date Turtle Soup)【Characteristics】 Functions: Nourishes yin and blood, benefits the heart and kidneys, and supplements the lungs. Suitable for insomnia, irritability, and palpitations caused by heart and kidney yin deficiency.【Ingredients】 Main ingredient: 60g turtle meat. Accompanying ingredients: 30g Bai He, 10 red dates. Seasoning: appropriate amount of salt.【Preparation Process】 1. Clean and cut the turtle meat and Bai He into pieces. Remove the pits from the red dates and wash them. 2. In a pot, add 1500g of water, the turtle meat, Bai He, and red dates, bring to a boil over high heat, skim off the foam, then switch to low heat, adding a little salt, and cook until the turtle meat is tender.【Dish Name】 Bai He Zhou (Lily Porridge)【Characteristics】 Moistens the lungs, stops cough, calms the mind, and soothes the spirit. Suitable for dry cough with blood-streaked phlegm, residual heat after fever, confusion, and anxiety, as well as women’s menopausal syndrome.【Ingredients】 30g Bai He (or 20g powdered Bai He), 50g glutinous rice, appropriate amount of rock sugar.【Source】 Compendium of Materia Medica【Preparation Process】 Peel and chop the Bai He (or use dried Bai He powder) and cook it with glutinous rice in a clay pot until the rice is soft and the soup is thick, then add rock sugar to complete.【Usage】 Serve as breakfast or snack, warm. A course of treatment lasts for 20 days.【Dish Name】 Bei Mu Jia Yu (Fritillaria and Turtle)【Cuisine】 Zhejiang Cuisine【Effects】 Nourishes yin and supplements the lungs. Suitable for cough due to yin deficiency, wheezing, low fever, and night sweats. Healthy individuals can consume it to prevent illness and strengthen the body.【Ingredients】 1 turtle, 5g Chuan Bei Mu (Fritillaria), 1000g chicken broth, appropriate amount of cooking wine, salt, pepper, ginger, and scallions.【Preparation Process】 Cut the turtle into pieces and place it in a steaming bowl, add chicken broth, Chuan Bei Mu, salt, cooking wine, pepper, ginger, and scallions, and steam for 1 hour.【Dish Name】 Bie Rou Bu Shen Tang (Turtle Meat Kidney Soup)【Characteristics】 Enhances physical strength, tonifies essence and blood, and strengthens the kidneys.【Ingredients】 Main ingredient: 1 turtle, about 800g. Accompanying ingredients: 30g goji berries, 30g Huai Shan (Chinese Yam), 15g Nu Zhen Zi (Ligustrum), 15g Shu Di Huang (Rehmannia). Seasoning: appropriate amount of cooking wine, salt, scallions, ginger slices, lard, and chicken broth.【Preparation Process】 1. Kill the turtle, remove the internal organs, soak it in hot water, remove the skin, and cut it into 5 pieces. Blanch in boiling water to remove blood, then rinse. Goji berries, Huai Shan, Nu Zhen Zi, and Shu Di Huang should be cleaned and prepared. 2. In a pot, add chicken broth, turtle pieces, herbs, cooking wine, salt, scallions, and ginger, and cook until the turtle meat is tender.【Dish Name】 Bing Tang Dun Hai Shen (Rock Sugar Stewed Sea Cucumber)【Characteristics】 Nourishes the kidneys, benefits essence, and moistens dryness. Suitable for hypertension.【Ingredients】 50g soaked sea cucumber, appropriate amount of rock sugar.【Source】 Folk recipe【Preparation Process】 Stew the sea cucumber until soft, then add rock sugar and stew for a while to complete.【Usage】 Take on an empty stomach before breakfast.【Dish Name】 Bing Tang Gui Rou (Rock Sugar Turtle Meat)【Characteristics】 Benefits qi and nourishes blood, increases essence and marrow. Suitable for those with deficiency after high fever and chronic illness. Also used as an auxiliary treatment for hemoptysis and hematochezia.【Ingredients】 Main ingredient: 1 live turtle, 250-500g. Accompanying ingredients: 50g rock sugar. Seasoning: 500g chicken broth, 15g scallions, 15g ginger, 10g peppercorns, 25g cooking wine, 5g soy sauce, and appropriate amount of vegetable oil.【Preparation Process】 1. Cut off the head of the live turtle, open the abdomen to remove the intestines, and cut off the feet, then cut into eight pieces. 2. In a frying pan, heat vegetable oil, fry the peppercorns slightly, add scallions and ginger to release fragrance, then add the turtle meat, cooking wine, and soy sauce, stir-fry, then add chicken broth and rock sugar, bring to a boil, then simmer until tender.【Dish Name】 Bing Tang Huang Jing Tang (Rock Sugar Polygonatum Soup)【Characteristics】 Nourishes yin and moistens the heart and lungs. Suitable for those with physical weakness, lung deficiency cough, tuberculosis, low fever, hemoptysis, and women with low fever and leukorrhea.【Ingredients】 30g Huang Jing (Polygonatum), 50g rock sugar.【Source】 Compendium of Materia Medica【Preparation Process】 Soak Huang Jing in cold water, add rock sugar, and simmer on low heat for 1 hour to complete.【Usage】 Eat Huang Jing and drink the soup, twice daily.【Dish Name】 Bing Tang Suan Cu Drink (Rock Sugar Vinegar Drink)【Characteristics】 Removes stasis and generates new, aids digestion and strengthens the stomach, supplements qi, and clears heat. Suitable for those with hypertension leaning towards yin deficiency and blood stasis.【Ingredients】 100g vinegar, 500g rock sugar.【Source】 New Chinese Medicine【Preparation Process】 Dissolve rock sugar in vinegar.【Usage】 Take 10g each time, three times a day, after meals.【Cautions】 Not suitable for those with ulcer disease or excessive gastric acid.【Dish Name】 Bo Zhou (Porridge)【Characteristics】 Expands the chest and relieves pain, promotes qi and stops dysentery. Suitable for coronary heart disease, angina, and acute and chronic dysentery, and enteritis.【Ingredients】 10-15g Xie Bai (Garlic Chives) (30-60g if fresh), 2 scallions, 100-150g white flour (or 50-100g japonica rice).【Source】 Pu Ji Fang【Preparation Process】 First wash and chop the Xie Bai and scallions, mix with white flour using cold water, then cook in boiling water until done. Alternatively, cook with japonica rice to make a thin porridge.【Usage】 Used as an auxiliary treatment for coronary heart disease and angina, can be taken warm intermittently. For treating enteritis and dysentery, a course lasts 3-5 days, taking 2-3 times daily warm.【Cautions】 Not suitable for febrile patients.【Dish Name】 Spinach Porridge【Cuisine】 Zhejiang Cuisine【Effects】 Nourishes blood and moistens dryness. Suitable for anemia, constipation, and hypertension.【Ingredients】 250g spinach, 250g japonica rice, appropriate amount of salt and monosodium glutamate.【Preparation Process】 Clean the spinach, blanch in boiling water, and cut into sections; rinse the japonica rice and place it in an aluminum pot, add an appropriate amount of water, and simmer until the rice is cooked, then add the spinach to the porridge and continue cooking until done; finally, add salt and monosodium glutamate to complete.【Usage】 Serve as a meal.【Dish Name】 Bu Xu Zheng Qi Zhou (Porridge for Supplementing Qi and Nourishing Vitality)【Characteristics】 Greatly supplements original qi and strengthens the spleen and stomach.【Ingredients】 30g Huang Qi (Astragalus), 10g Ren Shen (Ginseng), 90g japonica rice, appropriate amount of white sugar.【Source】 Sheng Ji Zong Lu【Preparation Process】 1. Slice Huang Qi and Ren Shen, soak in cold water for half an hour, boil in a clay pot to extract the concentrated juice, then strain. Add cold water to the remaining herbs and repeat the process to extract juice again. 2. Combine the two juices, divide into two portions, use one portion in the morning and one in the evening, and cook with japonica rice and water to make porridge, adding white sugar when done.【Usage】 Take on an empty stomach for breakfast and dinner. A course lasts for 5 days.【Dish Name】 Shen Ling Zhou (Ginseng and Poria Porridge)【Characteristics】 Strengthens the spleen, benefits qi, and supplements deficiency. Suitable for those with deficiency of qi and blood; can also treat disharmony of stomach qi, loss of appetite, and gradual weight loss.【Ingredients】 10g Ren Shen (Ginseng), 10g Bai Fu Ling (Poria), 100g japonica rice, 10g fresh ginger, a little salt.【Source】 Sheng Ji Zong Lu【Preparation Process】 1. Boil Ren Shen, Bai Fu Ling, and ginger in water, strain to extract the juice. 2. Add the japonica rice to the herbal juice and cook into porridge, adding a little salt before serving.【Usage】 Take on an empty stomach.【Dish Name】 Chi Jiang Ni Chou (Fermented Soybean and Eel)【Cuisine】 Zhejiang Cuisine【Characteristics】 Regulates the middle, benefits qi, and strengthens yang. Suitable for those with weak spleen and stomach, poor digestion, and early ejaculation or impotence.【Ingredients】 500g live eel. Accompanying ingredients: 15g fermented soybeans. Seasoning: 5g salt, 10g ginger slices, 5g minced garlic, 25g soy sauce, 15g lard.【Preparation Process】 1. Place the eel in a bamboo basket, cover it, and scald it with hot water to kill it, then wash off the slime, remove the gills and intestines, and cut into 5cm long sections. 2. In a pot over high heat, add lard, fry the minced garlic, add water (just enough to cover the eel), then add ginger slices, fermented soybeans, and salt, bring to a boil, then simmer until the eel is tender.【Dish Name】 Chi Dou Li Yu (Red Bean Carp)【Characteristics】 Promotes urination and reduces swelling. Suitable for patients with yang water and yin water, especially for those with yang water symptoms. Avoid salt, best eaten plain.【Ingredients】 Main ingredient: 1 live carp, about 1000g. Accompanying ingredients: 50g red beans, 6g grass fruit, 6g Chen Pi (Dried Tangerine Peel). Seasoning: 6g scallions, 3g pepper, 6g ginger, appropriate amount of chicken broth.【Preparation Process】 1. Clean the carp, remove scales, gills, and internal organs. 2. Stuff the red beans, Chen Pi, and grass fruit into the carp’s belly, place in a bowl, add ginger, scallions, and chicken broth, and steam until cooked.【Dish Name】 Chong Cao Du Zhong Dun Hai Xia (Cordyceps and Eucommia Stewed Sea Shrimp)【Cuisine】 Zhejiang Cuisine【Ingredients】 1 pound fresh sea shrimp, 3 qian Cordyceps, 3 qian Eucommia, 1 teaspoon wine, 1 teaspoon salt.【Preparation Process】 (1) Keep the shrimp shell on, cut off the whiskers and legs, remove the mud intestine, wash and drain. (2) Clean the Cordyceps and Eucommia with water. (3) Take 5 bowls of water and add Cordyceps and Eucommia to make soup. (4) After about 40 minutes, add the processed shrimp, and add wine to remove the fishy smell, cook until the shrimp is done, then add salt to complete.【Dish Name】 Chong Cao Dun Niu Bian (Cordyceps Stewed Bullwhip)【Cuisine】 Jiangsu Cuisine【Characteristics】 The soup is refreshing and delicious, the bullwhip is soft and tender, Cordyceps nourishes the skin and strengthens the body, goji berries improve eyesight, making it a high-nutrition tonic.【Ingredients】 500g soaked bullwhip, 1000g beef broth, 20g Cordyceps, 10g goji berries, 2g salt, 2g monosodium glutamate, 20g scallions, 20g ginger, a little white pepper.【Preparation Process】 (1) Soak the bullwhip in hot water, cut it into pieces, and wash it clean. (2) In a pot, add beef broth, bullwhip pieces, herbs, cooking wine, salt, scallions, and ginger, and cook until the bullwhip is tender. 【Usage】 Serve as a meal.【Dish Name】 Chong Cao Quan Ya (Cordyceps Whole Duck)【Cuisine】 Zhejiang Cuisine【Characteristics】 【Effects】 Nourishes the lungs and kidneys, benefits essence and marrow. Suitable for symptoms such as deficiency cough, spontaneous sweating, impotence, and weakness in the lower back and knees.【Ingredients】 10g Cordyceps, 1 old male duck, cooking wine, ginger, scallions, white pepper, salt, and monosodium glutamate as appropriate.【Preparation Process】 1. Slaughter the duck, remove the feathers and internal organs, wash clean, and cut off the feet; blanch in boiling water, then cool; wash the Cordyceps with warm water. 2. Cut the duck head open, stuff 8-10 pieces of Cordyceps into the head, tie it with cotton thread, stuff the remaining Cordyceps and ginger and scallions into the duck’s belly, then place in a bowl, add broth, season with salt, white pepper, and cooking wine, seal with wet cotton paper, and steam for about 2 hours. After steaming, remove the cotton paper, discard the ginger and scallions, and add monosodium glutamate to complete.【Dish Name】 Chuan Bei Niang Li (Chuan Bei Pear)【Cuisine】 Zhejiang Cuisine【Characteristics】 Moistens the lungs and resolves phlegm, clears heat and removes fire. Suitable for cough due to lung tuberculosis, dry cough, hemoptysis, etc.【Ingredients】 12g Chuan Bei Mu (Fritillaria), 6 pears, 100g glutinous rice, 100g winter melon strips, 180g rock sugar, appropriate amount of alum.【Preparation Process】 1. Wash the glutinous rice and steam it into rice; cut the winter melon into small pieces; crush the Chuan Bei Mu. 2. Peel the 6 pears, cut off the top as a lid, scoop out the core, soak them in alum water to prevent discoloration, then blanch the pears in boiling water, cool them in cold water, and place them in a bowl; mix the steamed rice, winter melon strips, and appropriate amount of rock sugar into 6 equal portions, stuff them into the pears, cover with the lids, place in a bowl, and steam for about 50 minutes until the pears are soft.【Usage】 When consuming, eat one pear at a time, twice daily.【Dish Name】 Chuan Xiong Tea (Chuan Xiong Tea)【Cuisine】 Sichuan Cuisine【Characteristics】 Chuan Xiong is warm and spicy. It enters the liver and gallbladder meridians. It invigorates blood, promotes qi, dispels wind, and relieves pain. Treats wind-heat headaches.【Ingredients】 5g Chuan Xiong, 10g tea leaves.【Preparation Process】 Boil in water and drink hot before meals.【Dish Name】 Cong Rong Yang Shen Zhou (Cistanche and Lamb Kidney Porridge)【Characteristics】 Nourishes the kidneys, calms the liver, and strengthens deficiency. Suitable for liver and kidney insufficiency, weakness, yellowish complexion, dry hair, dizziness, and tinnitus.【Ingredients】 15g Rou Cong Rong (Cistanche), 1 lamb kidney, 15g antelope horn powder, 20g Ling Zhi Shi (Magnetite), 20g Yi Yi Ren (Coix Seed).【Preparation Process】 1. Wash Rou Cong Rong, then boil it with antelope horn powder and magnetite to extract the juice. 2. Cut the lamb kidney into thin slices, then cook it with Yi Yi Ren in the herbal juice to make porridge. Take on an empty stomach as desired.【Dish Name】 Cong Bai Li Yu (Scallion and Eel)【Characteristics】 Promotes urination, removes dampness, strengthens the spleen, and reduces swelling. Suitable for nutritional edema, pregnancy, and spotting.【Ingredients】 50g scallions. Seasoning: cooking wine, ginger slices, soy sauce as appropriate.【Preparation Process】 Clean the eel, remove the intestines, wash it, and place it in a container, adding a little water, cooking wine, and scallions, then steam for 20 minutes.【Dish Name】 Cong Stewed Pig’s Trots (Scallion Stewed Pig’s Trotters)【Cuisine】 Zhejiang Cuisine【Characteristics】 【Effects】 Nourishes blood and reduces swelling. Suitable for blood deficiency, limb pain, edema, and sore swelling.【Ingredients】 50g scallions, 4 pig’s trotters, appropriate amount of salt.【Preparation Process】 Remove hair from the pig’s trotters, wash them, and make a cut; place the trotters and scallions in a pot, add enough water and a little salt, boil over high heat, then simmer until tender.【Usage】 Can be eaten in portions, drinking the soup as a side dish.【Dish Name】 Cu Cha (Vinegar Tea)【Characteristics】 Activates blood, relieves pain. Treats three-year heart pain. Vinegar is warm; its taste is sour. It enters the liver meridian. It removes stasis, benefits blood, generates new, aids digestion, and strengthens the stomach.【Ingredients】 Lake tea【Preparation Process】 Brew lake tea, mix with vinegar, and drink it.【Dish Name】 Da Zao Bai He Tang (Jujube and Lily Soup)【Cuisine】 Zhejiang Cuisine【Effects】 Supplements qi, moistens the lungs, stops cough, and nourishes the spleen and stomach. Treats chronic cough or weak cough due to deficiency.【Ingredients】 10 jujubes, 60g lilies, appropriate amount of rock sugar.【Preparation Process】 (1) Wash the jujubes, remove the pits; wash the lilies and tear them apart. (2) Boil the two ingredients together in a clay pot until soft, adding water and rock sugar to taste.【Usage】 Drink the soup, eat the jujubes and lilies. Once daily for 5-7 days as a course of treatment.【Dish Name】 Da Zao Dong Guo Tang (Jujube and Mushroom Soup)【Cuisine】 Zhejiang Cuisine【Characteristics】 Benefits qi and opens the appetite. Suitable for treating various deficiency symptoms, poor appetite, hypertension, coronary heart disease, cancer, and gastric and duodenal ulcers.【Ingredients】 15 jujubes, 15 dried mushrooms, appropriate amounts of ginger, cooked peanut oil, cooking wine, salt, and monosodium glutamate.【Preparation Process】 First, wash the dried mushrooms to remove sand; wash the jujubes and remove the pits; then add water, mushrooms, jujubes, salt, monosodium glutamate, cooking wine, ginger slices, and a little cooked peanut oil into a steaming bowl, cover tightly, and steam for 60-90 minutes until done.【Usage】 Serve as a side dish.【Dish Name】 Da Zao Zhou (Jujube Porridge)【Characteristics】 Strengthens the spleen and benefits qi. Suitable for spleen and stomach deficiency, anemia, and weak appetite.【Ingredients】 10 jujubes, 100g japonica rice, appropriate amount of rock sugar.【Source】 Sheng Ji Zong Lu【Preparation Process】 Wash the japonica rice and jujubes, place them in an aluminum pot, add enough water, boil over high heat, then simmer until the porridge is thick, adding rock sugar to taste.【Usage】 Serve as a meal.【Dish Name】 Dan Xian Yang Rou Tang (Single County Lamb Soup)【Cuisine】 Lu Cuisine【Characteristics】 Careful selection of ingredients, meticulous preparation, rich seasoning, milky soup, not fishy or greasy, delicious, and has the effects of tonifying deficiency, strengthening yang, and warming the middle.【Ingredients】 500g lamb, 5g pepper, 5g cinnamon, 5g Chen Pi (Dried Tangerine Peel), 50g coriander, 5g grass fruit, 10g ginger, 5g Bai Zhi (Angelica Dahurica), 10g scallions, 15g salt, 25g red oil, 15g pepper water, 5g clove powder, 5g cinnamon powder, 5g soy sauce, 25g sesame oil.【Preparation Process】 Clean the lamb, cut it into pieces of 10cm long, 3.3cm wide, and 3.3cm thick, break the lamb bones and lay them on the bottom of the pot, place the lamb on top, add water to cover the meat, boil over high heat, skim off the blood foam, and discard the broth. Add clean water, boil again, skim off the foam, then add more clean water, boil again, skim off the foam, then add lamb fat, boil for a while, and skim off the foam again. Place the spices in a cloth bag, along with ginger slices, scallions, and salt, and continue boiling until the lamb is 80% cooked, then add red oil and pepper water, and cook for about two hours until done. At this point, the soup should remain boiling, remove the cooked lamb, slice it thinly, and place it in a bowl, sprinkle with coriander before serving. Serve with chili oil and scallions on the side, along with lotus leaf pancakes.【Dish Name】 Dang Gui Yang Rou Geng (Angelica Lamb Soup)【Cuisine】 Zhejiang Cuisine【Effects】 Suitable for blood deficiency and insufficient qi and blood after illness and various types of anemia.【Ingredients】 25g Dang Gui (Angelica), 25g Huang Qi (Astragalus), 25g Dang Shen (Codonopsis), 500g lamb, scallions, ginger, cooking wine, monosodium glutamate, and salt as appropriate.【Preparation Process】 Clean the lamb, place Dang Gui, Huang Qi, and Dang Shen in a cloth bag, tie it up, and place it in an aluminum pot with scallions, ginger, salt, cooking wine, and enough water, then boil over high heat and simmer until the lamb is tender.【Usage】 When eating, add monosodium glutamate, eat the meat, and drink the soup.【Dish Name】 Di Huang Hua Zhou (Rehmannia Flower Porridge)【Cuisine】 Zhejiang Cuisine【Effects】 Nourishes the kidneys, clears heat, relieves irritability, and quenches thirst. Suitable for diabetes and kidney deficiency with low back pain.【Ingredients】 Appropriate amount of Di Huang Hua (Rehmannia Flower), 100g corn.【Preparation Process】 1. Dry the Di Huang Hua and crush it into powder, using 3g each time. 2. First, cook the corn into porridge, then add the Di Huang Hua powder, stir well, and boil until done.【Usage】 Can be taken in the morning and evening.【Dish Name】 Dong Sun Xue Cai Huang Yu Tang (Winter Bamboo Shoot, Snow Vegetable, and Yellow Fish Soup)【Cuisine】 Zhejiang Cuisine【Characteristics】 Benefits qi, opens the appetite, fills essence, and calms the spirit. Suitable for those with physical weakness, poor appetite, lung tuberculosis, and postoperative nutritional supplementation.【Ingredients】 30g winter bamboo shoots, 30g snow vegetables, 30g fatty meat, 1 yellow fish (about 500g), scallions, ginger, peanut oil, sesame oil, clear broth, cooking wine, pepper powder, salt, and monosodium glutamate as appropriate.【Preparation Process】 (1) First, clean the yellow fish, remove the scales and internal organs, wash it, prepare the winter bamboo shoots, cut them into slices, wash the snow vegetables, and cut them into small pieces; clean the pork and cut it into slices. (2) Heat peanut oil in a pan, fry the fish on both sides for a moment; then add clear broth, winter bamboo shoots, snow vegetables, meat slices, yellow fish, and seasonings, first boil over high heat, then simmer for 15 minutes, then boil again, remove the scallions and ginger, sprinkle with monosodium glutamate and pepper powder, and drizzle with sesame oil to complete.【Usage】 Serve as a side dish.【Dish Name】 Du Zhong Yao Hua (Eucommia Flower)【Characteristics】 Nourishes the liver and kidneys, lowers blood pressure. Suitable for kidney deficiency with low back pain, unsteady gait, elderly deafness, and hypertension.【Ingredients】 12g Du Zhong (Eucommia), 250g pig kidneys, 25g cooking wine, scallions, monosodium glutamate, salt, soy sauce, garlic, ginger, sugar, pepper, lard, vegetable oil, and water as appropriate.【Source】 Qian Zhong Fang【Preparation Process】 1. Cut the pig kidneys in half, remove the kidney membrane, and cut into kidney flowers. Boil the Du Zhong and pig kidneys in water to extract the juice, then strain and set aside. 2. Heat vegetable oil in a pan, fry the ginger and scallions until fragrant, add the pig kidneys and Du Zhong juice, and stir-fry until cooked.【Usage】 Take twice daily, serve as a side dish.【Dish Name】 Feng Mi Sang Shen Gao (Honey Mulberry Paste)【Characteristics】 Nourishes the liver and kidneys, supplements qi and blood. Suitable for premature graying of hair, post-illness blood deficiency, and premature aging.【Ingredients】 200g fresh red mulberries, 50g honey.【Source】 Da Zhong Yao【Preparation Process】 Wash the fresh red mulberries, place them in a large bowl, mash them with a rolling pin, strain the juice through white cloth, then place the juice in a clay pot and simmer until slightly thick, add honey, stir continuously, and cook until it becomes a paste, cool and store in a bottle.【Usage】 Take 1-2 tablespoons twice daily with warm water.【Dish Name】 Fo Shou Gan Zhou (Buddha’s Hand Citrus Porridge)【Characteristics】 Strengthens the spleen and stomach, regulates qi, and relieves pain. Suitable for the elderly with weak stomach, chest tightness, qi stagnation, poor digestion, loss of appetite, and belching and vomiting.【Ingredients】 10-15g Buddha’s hand, 50-100g japonica rice, appropriate amount of rock sugar.【Preparation Process】 Boil the Buddha’s hand to extract the juice, then add it to the japonica rice and rock sugar to cook into porridge.【Usage】 Can be served as breakfast or snack, warm.【Dish Name】 Fu Rong Yang Shen Zhou (Hibiscus and Lamb Kidney Porridge)【Characteristics】 Nourishes the kidneys, calms the liver, and strengthens deficiency. Suitable for liver and kidney insufficiency, weakness, yellowish complexion, dry hair, dizziness, and tinnitus.【Ingredients】 15g Rou Cong Rong (Cistanche), 1 lamb kidney, 15g antelope horn powder, 20g Ling Zhi Shi (Magnetite), 20g Yi Yi Ren (Coix Seed).【Source】 Sheng Ji Zong Lu【Preparation Process】 1. Wash Rou Cong Rong, then boil it with antelope horn powder and magnetite to extract the juice. 2. Cut the lamb kidney into thin slices, then cook it with Yi Yi Ren in the herbal juice to make porridge. Take on an empty stomach as desired.

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