1) Day lily (Radix Hemerocallis)
Decoct 30 g of the fresh roots of day lily in water for oral administration.
2) Cucumber skin (Exocarpium Cucumeris Sativus)
Decoct cucumber skin in water for drinking, three times a day.
3) Cucumber root (Radix Cucumeris Sativus)
Pound some cucumber roots into a mash to get the juice. Take a cup of it warm every morning.
4) Corn (Semen Maydis)
Make gruel with 50g of corn pieces; put in a bit of salt when the gruel is well done.
5) Shaddock ped (Pericarpium Citri Grandis)
Have the peel of 2 shaddocks burnt until it becomes charred and ground into fine powder. Take 5 to 10g at a time, three times a day, with rice (or millet) soup after meals.
6) River snail (Cipangopaludina Chinensis)
Raise 10 to 20 river snails in clear water to rinse the mud out of them; take out the flesh and add 200 ml of millet wine; have it mixed and stewed in water until it is done. Drink the soup once a day.
7) Waxgourd (Fructus Benincasae)
Have 500g of waxgourd boiled in water to get 1500ml of soup. Take it in three portions. The above dietetic therapeutic drugs are applicable to icteric hepatitis of the type of bile oozing from the gallbladder due to damp-heat accumulating in the liver and gallbladder.
8) Wild jujube (Fructus Ziziphi Spinosae)
Decoct 30g of wild jujubes in just the right amount of water for an hour;remove the dregs, eat the jujubes and drink the decoction. Take a dose a day. This recipe has an effect of lowering transaminase to normal, applicable to both the type of incoordination between the spleen and the stomach caused by damp-heat accumulating in the interior, and the type of stagnancy of qi and blood resulting from coordination between the liver and the spleen.
9) Purple gromwell root (Radix Arnebiae seu Lithospermi)
Have 30g of purple gromwell roots decocted two times in just the right amount of water, letting it boil for thirty minutes each time and then filtering out the decoction; put all the filtered decoction together. Take it twice a day.
10) Plum (Prunum)
Eat fresh plums after meals, two or three at a time. The above two drugs are suitable for those who suffer flora the type of stagnancy of qi and blood resulting from incoordination between the liver and the spleen.