1) Five Ingredients Gruel (Wuwei Zhou)
INGREDIENTS:
Rhizoma Dioscoreae (Shanyao)30g, Raw Semen Coicis 30g, Mulberry 30g, Chinese-date (Fructus Ziziphi Jujubae)10g, Corn (millet) 60g
PROCESS: Wash all the above ingredients clean, make them with water into gruel, divide it into 2-3 times to eat. This five ingredient interaction can tonify qi and nourish yin.
2) Thick Soup of Waxgourd and Carp (Donggua Liyu Tang)
INGREDIENTS:
Waxgourd, Fructus Benincasae 500g, Cyprinus Carpio 250g, Fructus Amomi 9g, Fructus Psoraleae (Buguzhi) 9g , Table salt(a little)
PROCESS Get rid of the intestines of the carp, wrap the Fructus Amomi and Fructus Psoraleae (Buguzhi) with gauze bag, put it into the carp maw, wash the Waxgourd clean and cut it into cubes, stew the carp together with waxgourd and table salt for eating. This soup has the efficiency of warming and tonifying spleen-kidney, freeing yang and disinhibiting water. It’s applicable to the patients with severe edema.
DIRECTIONS Put Chinese green onion sections and table salt into the stewed carp before it is taken. It is applicable to patients suffering from chronic nephritis.
3) Lycium and Sesame Paste (Gouqi Zhima Hu)
INGREDIENTS:
Fructus Lycii (Gouqizi)60g, Black sesame 30g, Chinese-date (Fructus Ziziphi Jujubae)15g, Polished round-grained rice 60g
PROCESS: Fry the black sesame and the polished round-grained rice until they are well-done, boil the Lycium and get rid of its seed, boil the Chinese-date and remove the peel and kernel, dry the Lycium and Chinese-date in the air, then grind them with black sesame and polished round-grained rice into powder, put the powder into a bottle, infuse 20g of the powder each time with boiling water, make it into paste for eating. Lycium and black sesame can boost essence, nourish and tonify liver and kidney. Chinese-date and polished round-grained rice has the effect of nourishing blood and boosting essence. Frequently eating this paste can regulate body function and beneficial to recovery.
4) Stew Chicken with Angelica Sinensis and Astragalus Mongholicus (Guiqi Dun Ji)
INGREDIENTS: Hen, 1 (about 1000g), Radix Angelicae Sinensis (Danggui)15g, Radix Astragali (Huangqi) 30g, Seasoning(right amount)
PROCESS: Get rid of the hen’s feather and viscera, wash the hen clean, then put the Angelica Sinensis and Astragalus Mongholicus into the hen’s abdomen, stew the hen with some water and seasoning for eating. Eating the hen can tonify qi and blood, accompanied with the tonify qi of Astragalus Mongholicus and the invigorate blood of Angelica Sinensis, can strengthen the functions of nourishing blood and tonifying qi. This recipe is applicable to patients with prolong diseases, essence and blood deficiency, lower plasma protein, and lower blood urea nitrogen.
5) Cornus and Walnut Gruel (Yurou Hutao Zhou)
INGREDIENTS: Cornus 20g, Walnut 20g, Polished round-grained rice 100g, White sugar(right amount)
PROCESS: Wash cornus clean and remove the kernel, boil it with walnut and polished round-grained rice into gruel, season it before eating. Cornus can tonify liver and kidney, constrain the essence and induce astringency, boost essence and blood. Compatible with tonifying kidney walnut and tonifying spleen and stomach polished round-grained rice, which can regulate and tonify kidney-yin and kidney-yang. This recipe is nourishing instead of greasy. Patients can eat it frequently.
