Gruel with Oriental Wormwood for Viral Hepatitis (Image)

INGREDIENTS
Oriental wormwood, Herba Artemisiae Scopariae (Yinchenhao)   30 to 45 g
Polished round-grained rice, Semen Oryzae Sativae  100g
White sugar  a bit

PROCESS: Have some oriental wormwood washed clean and use 30 to 45g at a time; add 200 ml of water and decoct it until 100ml of water is left. Remove the dregs to get the extract; put in 100g of polished round-grained rice, add 600 ml of water and cook until the rice is well-done and the extract becomes thick.  Add a bit of white sugar and go on cooking for a while until it has boiled for a little while.

DIRECTIONS: Take it 2 or 3 times a day, with 7 to l0 days as a course of treatment.
All the above dietetic therapeutic composite recipes can be applied to acute icterohepatitis marked by the type of bile oozing from the gallbladder due to damp-heat accumulating in the liver and gallbladder.