1) Eight-Ingredient Cake
Ingredients: Job’s-tears seed, 90g, euryale seed 90g, hyacinth bean 90g, lotus seed 90g, Rhizoma Dioscoreae (Shanyao) 90g, Radix Codonopsis (Dangshen) 60g, poria 60g, white atractylodes rhizome 30g, white sugar 240g.
Process: Grind the above ingredients into fine powder; then mix well the powder with rice flour and water and make cakes by steaming the mixture. To be taken any time as one wishes. The cake can be cut into pieces, toasted and stored for eating at ordinary times. This recipe, can replenish qi to invigorate the spleen and excrete dampness. It is very good for patients suffering form diarrhea due to chronic enteritis manifested as the type of deficiency of the spleen.
2) Gruel of the Chinese Yam, Euryale Seed and Lotus Seed
Ingredients: Chinese yam 15g, Euryale seed 15g, lotus seed 15g, hyacinth bean 15g, Job’s-tears seed 15g, Chinese-dates 10 pieces, polished round-grained rice 75g.
Process: Make gruel with all the ingredients and a right amount of water. To be taken twice on the same day. It is very good for patients suffering form diarrhea due to chronic enteritis manifested as the type of deficiency of the spleen.
3) Gruel of Cherokee Rose-Hip
Ingredients: Cherokee rose-hip 12g, baked ginger 6g, nutmeg 6g, Fructus Schisandrae (Wuweizi) 3g, lotus seed 15g, Euryale seed 15g, and Chinese yam 15g, polished round-grained rice 50g.
Process: Decoct the first four ingredients and remove the dregs from the decoction; then make gruel with the last four ingredients, the decoction and right amount of water. To be taken twice on the same day. It is applicable to the patients suffering from diarrhea due to chronic enteritis marked by the type of deficiency of the kidney-yin.
4) Gruel of Aconite Root with Additions
Ingredients: Prepared aconite root 6g, baked ginger 6g. nutmeg 6g, psoralea fruit 6g, poria 15g, polished round-grained rice 100g.
Process: First decoct the first five ingredients in water for two hours and sift the dregs from the decoction; then add the rice and a right amount of water to it, and then make them into gruel. When the gruel is done, mix it with the brown sugar. To be taken twice on the same day. It is applicable to the patients suffering from diarrhea due to chronic enteritis marked by the type of deficiency of the kidney-yin.
5) Gruel of Astragalus mongholicus and the Job’s-tear Seed.
It is good for nourishing the spirit and treating the diarrhea and is applicable to the patients with chronic enteritis marked by the type of deficiency of the spleen.
Ingredients: Rice 100g, astragalus mongholicus30g, the Job’s-tear seed 30g.
