SOURCE: Popular Medicated Diets
INGREDIENTS
Arborvitae seed, Semen Biotae 15g
Pork heart 1
PROCESS: Wash the pork heart clean and cut it open with a thin piece of bamboo; put the arborvitae seeds into the pork heart, and then put it in an earthenware pot and add just the right amount of water to stew it without its contacting water until it is thoroughly done.
DIRECTIONS: Eat the heart and drink the soup.
EFFICACY: Nourishing the heart and tranquilizing the mind, replenishing the blood and moistening the intestines.
DIRECTIONS: Palpitation, insomnia, excessive dreaming during sleep and failing memory due to deficiency of the heart-blood and the heart-yin; constipation and other symptoms due to deficiency of blood in old age.