【Dish Name】 Bai Ji Bing Tang Yan Wo (Bai Ji 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 (Fritillaria)【Source】 Folk recipe【Preparation Process】 Prepare the bird’s nest as per the eating method, place it in a clay pot with Bai Ji, add an appropriate amount of water, and steam 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 waist and knees, spleen deficiency with poor appetite, and abdominal pain due to cold stomach.【Ingredients】 50g Rou Cong Rong (Cistanche), 10g Bi Ba (Piper), 10g Qing Guo (Green Fruit), 5g Chen Pi (Dried Tangerine Peel), 10g Pepper, 2 pairs of lamb kidneys, 200g lamb fat, salt, scallions, soy sauce, yeast, ginger, and other seasonings as appropriate.【Preparation Process】 1. Clean the 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, add scallions, ginger, yeast, and soy sauce, and prepare the soup as usual.【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. Sweet rice is neutral and can tonify qi and stop sweating; lily is sweet and slightly cold.【Ingredients】 30g sweet rice, 9g lily, 10 red dates, appropriate amount of white sugar.【Preparation Process】 1. First, soak the lily in boiling water to remove some bitterness. 2. Wash the sweet rice, and cook it with the lily and red dates over low heat until it becomes porridge, then add an appropriate amount of white sugar to complete.
【Dish Name】 Bai He Zao Gui Tang (Lily and Turtle Soup)【Characteristics】 Function: 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 lily, 10 red dates. Seasoning: appropriate amount of salt.【Preparation Process】 ① Clean the turtle meat and lily, and cut them into pieces. Remove the pits from the dates and wash them. ② In a pot, add 1500g of water, then add the turtle meat, lily, and dates, bring to a boil over high heat, skim off the foam, then reduce to low heat, add a little salt, and cook until the turtle meat is done.【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 women’s menopausal syndrome.【Ingredients】 30g lily (or 20g lily powder), 50g glutinous rice, appropriate amount of rock sugar【Source】 “Bencao Gangmu”【Preparation Process】 Peel and chop the lily (or use dried lily 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】 Can be eaten for breakfast or as a snack, served warm. A course of treatment lasts for 20 days. 【Dish Name】 Bei Mu Jia Yu (Fritillaria and Turtle)【Cuisine】 Zhejiang Cuisine【Effect】 Nourishes yin and supplements the lungs. Suitable for yin deficiency cough, wheezing, low fever, and night sweats. Healthy individuals can also 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 to complete.【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: cooking wine, salt, scallions, ginger slices, lard, chicken broth as appropriate.【Preparation Process】 ① Slaughter 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 wash clean. 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. Remove the scallions and ginger, and drizzle with lard to complete.【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】 Tonifies qi and blood, increases essence and marrow. Suitable for those who are weak after high fever or prolonged 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, 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 claws, then cut into eight pieces. ② In a frying pan, heat vegetable oil, fry the peppercorns slightly, add scallions and ginger to release the 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 to complete.
【Dish Name】 Bing Tang Huang Jing Tang (Rock Sugar Polygonatum Soup)【Characteristics】 Nourishes yin and moistens the heart and lungs. Suitable for those who are weak, have lung deficiency cough, tuberculosis, low fever, hemoptysis, and women with low fever and leukorrhea.【Ingredients】 30g Huang Jing (Polygonatum), 50g rock sugar【Source】 “Mindong Bencao”【Preparation Process】 Soak Huang Jing in cold water, add rock sugar, and simmer for 1 hour to complete.【Usage】 Eat Huang Jing and drink the soup, twice daily.
【Cautions】 Not suitable for those with excessive gastric acid or ulcer disease. 【Dish Name】 Bo Zhu (Bai Zhu 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 Xi Bai (Allium fistulosum) (fresh 30-60g), 2 stalks of scallions, 100-150g white flour (or 50-100g japonica rice)【Source】 “Pujifang”【Preparation Process】 First, wash and chop the Xi Bai and scallions, mix with white flour and 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 enteritis and dysentery, a course of treatment lasts 3-5 days, taking 2-3 times daily warm.
【Cautions】 Not suitable for those with fever. 【Dish Name】 Spinach Porridge【Cuisine】 Zhejiang Cuisine【Effect】 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】 Wash the spinach, blanch it in boiling water, and cut it into sections; wash 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 and continue to simmer until it becomes porridge, then add salt and monosodium glutamate to complete.【Usage】 Serve as a meal. 【Dish Name】 Bu Xu Zheng Qi Zhou (Porridge for Strengthening Qi)【Characteristics】 Greatly tonifies 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, then boil in a clay pot to extract the concentrated juice, then strain. 2. Combine the first and second decoctions, 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 of treatment 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, and 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 fresh ginger in water, strain to extract the juice. 2. Add the japonica rice to the medicinal juice and cook into porridge, adding a little salt before serving.【Usage】 Take on an empty stomach.
【Dish Name】 Chi Jiang Ni Chou (Chili Ginger Mud Eel)【Cuisine】 Zhejiang Cuisine【Characteristics】 Regulates the middle, benefits qi, and strengthens yang. Suitable for those with weak spleen and stomach, indigestion, poor appetite, and impotence or premature ejaculation.【Ingredients】 500g live mud eel. Accompanying ingredients: 15g Dou Chi (Fermented Black Soybeans). Seasoning: 5g salt, 10g ginger slices, 5g minced garlic, 25g soy sauce, 15g lard.【Preparation Process】 ① Place the mud eel in a bamboo basket, cover it, and scald it with hot water, then wash off the mucus, 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, Dou Chi, salt, and soy sauce, and cook 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 syndrome, especially for those with yang water syndrome. 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, then serve with blanched scallions and green leafy vegetables in the fish broth.
【Dish Name】 Chong Cao Du Zhong Dun Hai Xia (Cordyceps and Eucommia Stewed Shrimp)【Cuisine】 Zhejiang Cuisine【Ingredients】 1 pound fresh shrimp, 3 qian Cordyceps, 3 qian Eucommia, 1 teaspoon wine, 1 teaspoon salt.【Preparation Process】 (1) Clean the shrimp, 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 the 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, and add salt to complete.
【Dish Name】 Chong Cao Niang Niu Bian (Cordyceps Stewed Bull Penis)【Cuisine】 Jiangsu Cuisine【Characteristics】 The soup is refreshing and delicious, the bull penis is soft and tender, Cordyceps nourishes the skin and strengthens the body, goji berries improve eyesight, and it is a high-nutrition tonic.【Ingredients】 500g soaked bull penis, 1000g beef broth, 20g Cordyceps, 10g goji berries, 2g salt, 2g monosodium glutamate, 20g scallions, 20g ginger, 10g cooking wine, 10g sesame oil, a little white pepper.【Preparation Process】 (1) Cut the soaked bull penis into several pieces, wash clean; (2) In a pot, add beef broth, add the bull penis, and cook until tender, then add the goji berries, Cordyceps, scallions, ginger, cooking wine, and simmer for another hour until the bull penis is soft and the Cordyceps is tender, then serve with the broth.【Usage】 Serve as a meal. 【Dish Name】 Chong Cao Quan Ya (Cordyceps Whole Duck)【Cuisine】 Zhejiang Cuisine【Characteristics】 【Effect】 Nourishes the lungs and kidneys, benefits essence and marrow. Suitable for symptoms such as cough and asthma due to deficiency, spontaneous sweating, night sweats, impotence, and weakness in the waist and knees.【Ingredients】 10g Cordyceps, 1 whole 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 blanch in boiling water; 2. Clean the Cordyceps with warm water; 3. Cut the duck head open, stuff 8-10 pieces of Cordyceps into the duck head, tie it with cotton thread, and stuff the remaining Cordyceps along with ginger and scallions into the duck’s abdomen, 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, then remove the cotton paper, discard the ginger and scallions, and serve with monosodium glutamate.【Dish Name】 Chuan Bei Niang Li (Chuan Bei Stuffed Pear)【Cuisine】 Zhejiang Cuisine【Effect】 Moistens the lungs, eliminates phlegm, and reduces heat. Suitable for cough due to lung tuberculosis, dry cough, and hemoptysis.【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; cut the winter melon into small pieces; crush the Chuan Bei Mu; dissolve the alum in water. 2. Peel the pears, cut off the top, and scoop out the core, then soak them in alum water to prevent discoloration, then blanch the pears in boiling water, cool in cold water, and place in a bowl; mix the steamed glutinous rice, winter melon strips, and an appropriate amount of rock sugar into six equal portions, stuff into the pears, cover with the tops, place in a bowl, and steam for about 50 minutes until the pears are soft.【Usage】 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 regulates blood, promotes qi, dispels wind, and relieves pain. Treats wind-heat headache.【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 the body. Suitable for liver and kidney deficiency, weakness, yellowish complexion, dry hair, dizziness, and tinnitus.【Ingredients】 15g Rou Cong Rong (Cistanche), 1 lamb kidney, 15g antelope horn powder, 20g Ling Zhi (Reishi), 20g Yi Yi Ren (Coix seed).【Preparation Process】 1. Wash the Rou Cong Rong, then boil it with the antelope horn powder and Ling Zhi to extract the juice. 2. Cut the lamb kidney into thin slices and cook it with Yi Yi Ren in the medicinal juice to make porridge. Eat on an empty stomach as desired. 【Dish Name】 Cong Bai Li Yu (Scallion and Carp)【Characteristics】 Promotes urination, removes dampness, strengthens the spleen, reduces swelling, and nourishes the kidneys and liver. Suitable for nutritional edema, pregnancy, and spotting.【Ingredients】 50g scallions. Seasoning: cooking wine, ginger slices, soy sauce as appropriate.【Preparation Process】 Clean the carp, remove the intestines, wash, and place in a container, add a little water, cooking wine, and scallions, steam for 20 minutes, and serve with soy sauce. 【Dish Name】 Cong Dun Zhu Ti (Scallion Stewed Pig Trotters)【Cuisine】 Zhejiang Cuisine【Characteristics】 【Effect】 Nourishes blood and reduces swelling. Suitable for blood deficiency, limb pain, swelling, and sores.【Ingredients】 50g scallions, 4 pig trotters, appropriate amount of salt.【Preparation Process】 Remove the hair from the pig trotters, wash, and make a cut; place the scallions in sections with the trotters in a pot, add an appropriate amount of water and a little salt, boil over high heat, then simmer until tender to complete.【Usage】 Can be eaten in portions with the soup as a meal.
【Dish Name】 Cu Cha (Vinegar Tea)【Characteristics】 Activates blood, relieves pain. Treats three-year heart pain. Vinegar is warm; it tastes sour. It enters the liver meridian. It promotes blood circulation, removes stasis, aids digestion, and strengthens the stomach.【Ingredients】 Lake tea【Preparation Process】 Brew lake tea, mix with vinegar, and drink. 【Dish Name】 Da Zao Bai He Tang (Jujube and Lily Soup)【Cuisine】 Zhejiang Cuisine【Effect】 Tonifies qi, moistens the lungs, stops cough, and strengthens the spleen and stomach. Treats chronic cough or weak cough due to deficiency.【Ingredients】 10 jujubes, 60g lily, appropriate amount of rock sugar.【Preparation Process】 (1) Wash the jujubes and remove the pits; wash the lily and tear apart the scales. (2) Cook the two ingredients together in a clay pot until soft, adding water and rock sugar to taste.【Usage】 Drink the soup and eat the jujubes and lilies. Once daily for 5-7 days as a course of treatment.
【Usage】 Eat the soup, and consume the jujubes and lilies. Once daily for 5-7 days as a course of treatment.
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