(1) Malt cake
Ingredients: Malt 120g, Orange peel 30g, Chao Baizhu ( Fried Rhizoma Atractylodis Macrocephalae) 30g, Massa Medicata Fermentata (Shenqu) 60g, Rice flour 150g, Sugar
Process: Wash malt clean, then dry it; Dry fresh orange peel in the sun and take 30g; Grind dry malt, dry orange peel, Shenqu and Chao Baizhu into fine powder, then mix the powder with sugar and rice flour together with water and make into 10-15 pieces of small cakes; Stew the cakes in a bowl.
Administration: 2-3 pieces of malt cakes a day and take for 5-7 days continuously.
Effect: Helping to digest, harmonizing the middle warmer, nourishing spleen and appetizing. It is applicable to loss of appetite or dyspepsia and abdominal fullness and distention.
(2) Hawthorn sweetmeat
Ingredients: Fresh Fructus Crataegi (Shanzha) 500g, Honey 250g.
Process: Take 500g fresh hawthorn, remove carpopodium and kernel; Clean it and boil in a pot, add honey when the water in the pot is almost dry and boil another 5-10 minutes with soft fire; Leave fire and cool it.
Administration: Eat 3-5 pieces before meals to promote appetite; Eat 3-5 pieces after meals to help digestion.
Effect: Appetizing and helping digestion. It is applicable to loss of appetite or dyspepsia caused by excessive eating.
(3) Gruel of fructus amomi
Ingredients: Fructus Amomi (Sharen) 2-3g, Rice 50-75g
Process Grind fructus amomi into fine powder; Clean rice and boil gruel in a small pot; Add fructus amomi when gruel is almost done and mix evenly, cook one more while.
Administration: Eat it as breakfast or supper when it is warm everyday.
Effect: Nourishing spleen and stomach and helping digestion. It is applicable to children's inappetence and dyspepsia.
Tips: Fructus Amomi can't be cooked for long in avoid of losing the active constituent.
(4) Sugaring kumquat
Ingredients: Kumquat 500-700g, Sugar 500-600g.
Process Clean the fresh kumquat, press and flatten every kumquat with wood block, and remove kernel; Add sugar to pickle for 24 hours, add warm water when kumquat is saturated with sugar; Then cook it with soft fire until the juice is dry, close fire and cool it; Add sugar again and air dry the kumquat for several days in a plate; Store with a bottle.
Administration: Eat as preserved fruit freely.
Effect: Regulating vital energy, removing phlegm and appetizing. It is applicable to children's inappetence, dyspepsia and abdominal fullness and distention.
(5) Lotus root starch paste with fructus amomi and radix aucklandiae
Ingredients: Fructus Amomi (Sharen) 2-3g, Radix Aucklandiae (Muxiang) 1-2g, Lotus root starch 30-50g, Sugar
Process: Grind Fructus Amomi and Radix aucklandiae into fine powder; Take 1/5-1/3 of the powder and mix with lotus root starch and sugar together with boiling water, stir until becoming pasty.
Administration: 1-2 times a day, can be eaten as dessert when it is warm, eat it for 2-3 days continuously.
Effect: Nourishing spleen and appetizing. It is applicable to children's anorexia and children's dyspepsia caused by excessive eating or improper diet.
Tips: This recipe need to be taken when it is warm, it is not suitable to eat when it it cold, or will do harm to spleen and stomach.
(6) Soup of mud fish and Rhizoma Dioscoreae
Ingredients: Mud fish 300g, Rhizoma Dioscoreae (Shanyao) 100g, Red dates 5 pieces, Ginger 5g, Salt 3g, Plant oil 20g.
Process: Peel Rhizoma Dioscoreae and cut into pieces, clean red dates, cut ginger into pieces; Clean mud fish and remove internal organs and quick boil mud fish in the boiling water for 3 minutes, then take out and dry the water; Cook the oil hot and fry mud fish until changing color, then add water, Rhizoma Dioscoreae, red dates and ginger and boil with strong fire, then stew with soft fire; It is done after adding seasonings.
Effect: Nourishing spleen, regulating stomach, tonifying kidney, benefiting essence and relieving diarrhoea.
