SOURCE: Compendium of Materia Medica
INGREDIENTS
Hen 1
Polished round-grained rice, Semen Oryzae Sativae 100g
PROCESS: Kill the hen and remove its feathers and intestines, and then, wash it clean. Put it in a pot, add clean water to make broth and remove the chicken fat. Wash the rice clean, add water to make gruel; mix the right amount of the chicken broth and salt into the gruel when it is about to be done, and, go on cooking for a while.
DIRECTIONS: Take such gruel once in the morning and once in the evening.
EFFICACY: Nourishing the five viscera, benefiting qi and replenishing the blood.
INDICATIONS: Various syndromcs of deficiency and consumption, especially to parturients and those who suffer from Chronic Renal Failure, Chronic Nephritis.