Wupo Tang (Vegetable Soup)
INGREDIENTS: Tomato(2 to 3), Cabbage(1), Green pepper(2), Celery(1), Onion(2)
PROCESS: Boil all the above ingredients until all vegetables turn soft, season it with salt, pepper and caraway according your own preference. Drink Wupo Tang if you are hungry. A large pot of Wupo Tang can be drunk for 7 days. It takes a good effect on losing weight.
Dietetic Chinese Drugs
1) Japanese sea tangle (Thallus Eckloniae) Eat cooked Japanese sea tangle, 30g a day. It is prohibited to be eaten by those who suffer from insufficiency and coldness of the spleen and stomach.
2) Waxgourd (Benincasa) Cut 500g ofwaxgourd into thick slices and then makes soup. It is advisable to use a bit of sesame oil and salt to flavour it. Waxgourd contains no fat, less sodium and therefore, is ideal for reducing weight. Not only is it fit to be eaten frequently by obese persons, but it does a lot of good to those who suffer from kidney diseases, hydrops and diabetes.
Composite Recipes of Medicated Diet
1) Lotus Leaf and Fructus Crataegi (Shanzha) Drink (Heye Shanzha Yin)
INGREDIENTS: Lotus leaf, Folium Nelumbinis(9g), Hawthorn fruit, Fructus Crataegi (Shanzha) (powdered), 9g
PROCESS: Decoct 9g of lotus leaf and 9g of burnt hawthorn fruit in water for a while and take it as a drink. To treat simple obesity, it is advisable to take such a drink frenquently.
2) As for other recipes, one can choose and eat persistently such compound medicated foods as steamed round cardamom bread, or poria stuffed bun (steamed), or red bean and carp, etc., which can invigorate the spleen, remove dampness and resolve phlegm. Continue to read Chinese Medicine Treatment for Obesity.
