Gruel with Chinese Chives for Restoring Yang

SOURCE: Compendizum of Materia Medica

INGREDIENTS
Fresh Chinese chive, Herba Allii Tuberosi  30 to 60g (or 5 to 10g of Chinese chive seed, Semen Allii Tuberosi)
Polished round-grained rice, Semen Oryzae Sativae  60g
Refined salt, Sal Commuinis   a bit

PROCESS: Have the fresh Chinese chives washed clean and cut into bits (or Chinese chive seeds ground into fine powder); first, make gruel with the rice; put in the Chinese chives or the powder of the Chinese chive seeds, and salt after the gruel has boiled; go on cooking to make thin gruel.

DIRECTIONS: Take such gruel in the morning and in the evening.

EFFICACY: Replenishing the kidney, invigorating yang, arresting emission, promoting the function of the spleen and warming the stomach.

INDICATIONS: Cold pain in the abdomen, loose stool or Constipation, protracted dysentery of deficiency-cold type, dysphagia and regurgitation, Impotence, Premature Ejaculation, Nocturnal Emission, frequent micturition, incontinence of urine in children, Leukorrhagia in women, lassitude in the loins and knees, dysmenorrhea, metrorrhagia, metrostaxis and other symptoms caused by yang deficiency of both the spleen and the kidney.

PRECAUTIONS: The gruel should be cooked for immediate consumption.  Don't take the gruel of the previous day. Those who have a fever due to deficiency of yin, sores and eye diseases are prohibited to take this kind of gruel. It is not advisable to take it in summer.