1) Stuffed Eggplant
Ingredients: Two eggplants (about 250g), prepared shrimp 100g and moderate garlic powder, refined salt, white sugar, soy sauce and chicken essence.
Process: Rinse eggplant, cut it apart sideling; stuff the incision with the starch and prepared shrimp, then fry till both sides of it are yellowish; heat oil, quick-fry the garlic powder, then fry with the fired eggplant; season and simmer in moderate soup till it is done; thicken with the wet starch, stir-fry and serve.
Efficiency: To dispel stasis to stop pain. It is applicable to the calcaneodynia at the early stage.
2) Bone Soup
Ingredients: Medlar 20g, fleece-flower root 20g, chine of pig 500g, ginger, shallot, yellow wine, refined salt, etc.
Process: Rinse medlar and fleece-flower root, cut the chine into chunks; put them into the pot and add in 1000ml of water, ginger, shallot; cook with quick fire till it is boiling and remove the floating froth; cook for another three minutes and add the seasoning to simmer with low fire for an hour; to be taken in several times. Continue to read TCM Treatment Evaluation for Traumatic Arthritis.
Efficiency: To nourish the liver and kidney, strengthen the bones and muscles.
It is applicable to the calcaneodynia at the midanaphase with sore and soft in the loins and knees, which is due to the deficiency of the liver and kidney.
3) Gruel of Cinnamon
Ingredients: Cortex Cinnamomi (Rougui) 20g, the polished round-grained rice 50g.
Process: Rinse cinnamon and the polished round-grained rice; put them into the pot and add in 1000ml of water to cook for boiling with quick fire; 5 minutes later, cook with the low fire for 30 minutes after; to be taken in several times.
Efficiency: To warm the middle-energizer and promote yang and dispel cold to stop pain.
It is applicable to the calcaneodynia at the midanaphase with pain in the heel and cold limbs, which is due to the deficiency of the kidney-yang.
4) Stewed Turtle with Garlic
Ingredients: Garlic 25g, a Turtle (200g), ginger, shallot, yellow wine, refined salt.
Process: Rinse turtle, remove the viscus; peel the garlic and press into the paste; put them into the pot and stew in water for a about 1 hours; to be taken in several times.
Efficiency: To nourish the liver and kidney.
It is applicable to the calcaneodynia at the midanaphase with pain in the heel, marasmus and dysphoria in the heart, which is due to the deficiency of the kidney-yin.
5) Stewed Pig’s Hocks with Soybean
Ingredients: Soybean 200g, 4 pig’s hocks, ginger, shallot, yellow wine.
Process: Rinse peanuts and soak for 12 hours; peel the pig’s hock and cut into chunks; stew all the ingredients with quick fire; after boiling for 5 minutes, turn to low fire to stew for 1 hour; to be taken in several times.
Efficiency: To nourish the essence and blood, strengthen the bones and muscles.
It is applicable to the calcaneodynia at the midanaphase with long-term pain in the heel, weakness in the loins and knees,
6) Safflower and Goat Bone Soup
Ingredients: Flos Carthami (Honghua) 20g, goat bone 500g, ginger, shallot, yellow wine.
Process: Rinse goat bone and chop into chunks; soak in boiling water for 10 minutes and then turn into the cold water; stew all the ingredients in 1000ml of water with quick fire; after boiling for 5 minutes, turn to low fire to stew for 1 hour; to be taken in several times.
Efficiency: To nourish the kidney and strengthen the bones and muscles, activate the blood circulation to stop pain.
It is applicable to the calcaneodynia at the midanaphase with long-term pain in the heel and which attack repeatedly on one area. Continue to read Chinese medicine Treatment for Traumatic Arthritis.
7) For the attacking of Wind-evil Type
Ingredients: Ephdra sinica Stapf 5g, 3 pieces of ginger, a radish and 30ml of honey.
Process: Cut the radish into pieces and stew with the Ephdra sinica Stapf and ginger in water till the radish is done; add the honey and go on cooking for boiling twice; drink the soup and eat the radish.
8) For the Yin-deficiency of Liver and Kidney.
Ingredients: Semen Coicis (Yiyiren) 30g, yam 30g, lotus seed 15g, stir-baked Spine Date Seed 10g, Radix Codonopsis (Dangshen) 3g, white sugar 15g.
Process: Decoct the ingredients in water for the decoction; mix the dregs with the white sugar and take the mixture after intake of decoction; one dose a day.
