He Shou Wu Sea Cucumber Soup (首烏燉海參)Ingredients:
He Shou Wu (Fallopia multiflora ) 25g
Sea Cucumber 60g
Chinese Red Date 4g
Cooking Instruction:
- Wash all ingredients and and cut sea cucumber into pieces
- Blanch sea cucumber in boiling water for a few minutes; drain, rinse with cold water
- Put all ingredients in a double layer steamer, add appropriate amount of water, cover
with lid and steam for 2 hours over low heat - Add a pinch of salt and serve
Actions/Indications/Functions:
- Tonify liver blood, benefit liver yin
- Benefit qi, nourish yin, tonify kidney, strengthen yang, moisten intestine, unblock bowel,
promote urination, treat jaundice - Tonify qi and blood, harmonize spleen and stomach
Caution:
- Not suitable for patient with damp-heat (diarrhea, fever, abdominal pain, jaundice, bitter
taste in mouth, scanty and yellow urination) or exterior syndrome with fever, headache
or sore throat.