Goat Liver Soup for Benefiting the Liver

SOURCE: Dietetic Health-Preserving Recipe

INGREDIENTS
Goat (or sheep) liver  200g
Prepared rehmannia root, Radix Rehmanniae Praeparata (Shudihuang)   10g
Chuanxiong rhizome, Chuanxiong (Rhizoma Chuanxiong)   3g
Chinese angelica root, Radix Angelicae Sinensis (Danggui)    6g
White peony root, Radix Paeoniae Alba   8g
Wolfberry fruit, Fructus Lycii   10g
Eclipta, Herba Ecliptae  6g
Parched wild jujube seed, Semen Ziziphi Spinosae   6g
Peper powder, Pulvis Fructus Piperis Albi  1g
Gourmet powder  2g
Soaked edible fungus, Auricularia  20g
Cooking wine  2g
Day lily, Flos Hemerocallis Immaturus  10g
Wet starch  20g
Chicken broth   400g
Refined salt  6g
Soy sauce  3g

PROCESS: Wash the above medicinal herbs clean and put them into an earthenware pot; add water to decoct them for decoction and let the decoction settle to remove the sedment Wash the goat liver clean, cut it into thin slices and put it into a bowl; add 2g of refined salt, soy sauce, cooking wine and wet starch and mix them thoroughly. Put the earthenware pot with the decoction in it over a strong fire, add chicken broth, edible fungus and day lily. When the decoction boils, take the edible fungus and day lily out and put them m a soup bowl. Spread the liver slices into the pot; skim off the froth when it boils again; put in salt, pepper powder, prepared lard and gourmet powder when the liver  is done.   Then, put it into the soup bowl for taking.

DIRECTIONS: It can be taken with bread (or cooked rice).

EFFICACY: Nourishing the liver, replenishing the blood, improving acuity of vision and tranquilizing the mind.

INDICATIONS: Night blindness, dim eyesight and Optic Atrophy caused by deficiency of the liver-blood, palpitation, Insomnia, forgetfulness and, in women, Irregular Menstruation, and other symptoms resulting from deficiency of the heart-blood.