1. Grass Fruit Drink
Benefits: Treats malaria. Relieves alternating hot and cold sensations, restlessness, thirst, and headaches, or symptoms of both hot and cold.
Ingredients: 4 grass fruit seeds, 0.5 qian of ginseng (without the root), 13 pinches of pinellia ternata (soaked in boiling water 7 times), 0.5 qian of licorice (roasted), 3 jujubes, 3 black plums, 1 piece of fresh ginger (3 inches long).
Usage: Chew and swallow. Boil the ingredients with 1 large bowl of water until reduced to half a bowl. Remove the residue and drink it warm before meals.
2. Grass Fruit Powder
Benefits: Treats pregnancy-related weak spleen and stomach, long-term weakness of the spleen and stomach, and abdominal pain.
Ingredients: 2 liang of magnolia bark (peeled and soaked in ginger juice, then stir-fried until golden), 1 musk mallow (stir-fried), 1 cardamom (stir-fried).
Usage: Chew and swallow. Take 3 qian with 1 cup of water, add 3 slices of fresh ginger, boil until reduced to 7 parts, remove the residue, and drink it hot.
3. Grass Fruit Jianzhong Soup
Benefits: Treats malaria in children.
Ingredients: 0.5 liang of ginseng, 0.5 liang of grass fruit, 0.5 liang of cinnamon, 1 liang of white peony, 3 fen of licorice.
Preparation: Powder the ingredients.
Usage: Boil in a large pot and take multiple times a day.
4. Grass Fruit Beef Soup
Benefits: Relieves liver disease with cold hands and feet, stomach coldness, and bloating. Helps with digestion and pain relief, but not suitable for those with gastric heat and constipation.
Ingredients: 6 grams of grass fruit, 200 grams of beef.
Method: Cut 6 grams of grass fruit and 200 grams of beef into small pieces. Boil with water and add salt and seasoning to make a soup.
5. Grass Fruit Drink
Benefits: Treats spleen cold and malaria.
Ingredients: Equal parts of perilla leaf, grass fruit, nutgrass, white atractylodes, dried ginger, and licorice.
Usage: Powder the ingredients. Take 6 grams with 150 milliliters of water, boil until reduced to 100 milliliters, remove the residue, and drink it hot. Repeat this process twice and take it for three consecutive days.
6. Grass Fruit Yin Chen Soup
Benefits: Treats cold and dampness in the Tai Yin meridian, gray and slippery tongue, and stagnation in the middle burner.
Ingredients: 1 qian of grass fruit, 3 qian of Yin Chen, 3 qian of poria cocos, 2 qian of magnolia bark, 1 qian and 5 fen of dried tangerine peel, 2 qian of polyporus, 2 qian of pig's stomach lining, 1 qian and 5 fen of alisma orientalis.
Usage: Boil with 5 cups of water until reduced to 2 cups, divided into 2 doses.
7. Grass Fruit Hawthorn Wine
Benefits: Warms the middle burner, dries dampness, aids digestion, and relieves food stagnation. Suitable for those with stomach distention and pain, and poor digestion.
Ingredients: 10 grams of grass fruit, 5 grams of hawthorn, 250 milliliters of white wine.
Preparation: Wash and dry the grass fruit and hawthorn, soak them in white wine for 7 days.
Usage: Drink 10-15 milliliters each time, twice a day.
8. Magnolia Grass Fruit Soup
Benefits: Treats damp malaria, deficiency of heat, white and greasy tongue coating, chest and epigastric distention, coldness in the extremities, and preference for hot drinks when thirsty.
Ingredients: 4.5 grams of magnolia bark, 4.5 grams of apricot kernel, 3 grams of grass fruit, 6 grams of pinellia ternata, 9 grams of poria cocos, 3 grams of dried tangerine peel.
Usage: Boil 1 liter of water until reduced to 400 milliliters, divided into two doses and taken warm.
9. Changshan Grass Fruit Drink
Benefits: Treats phlegm-related malaria.
Prescription: Changshan, grass fruit, pinellia ternata, dried tangerine peel, magnolia bark, mature atractylodes, licorice.
Usage: Add fried radish seeds for distention and pain in the chest; add dried citrus peel for abdominal pain.
10. Cardamom Grass Fruit Black-Bone Chicken
Benefits: Strengthens the spleen, invigorates the qi, stimulates appetite, and stops diarrhea. Suitable for those with weak spleen and stomach, poor appetite, bloating, loose stools, and fatigue.
Ingredients: 6 grams of white cardamom, 6 grams of grass fruit, 1 black-bone chicken.
Method: First, burn the grass fruit and grind it with the cardamom. Then, wash the black-bone chicken, remove the internal organs, and stuff the chicken with the powdered herbs. Tie it up and boil until cooked.
Usage: Eat on an empty stomach as desired.
11. Grass Fruit Aconite Soup
Benefits: Warms the middle burner, dispels cold, and relieves spasms. Suitable for those with weak yang, stagnation of the ascending and descending functions, and pain in the stomach area.
Ingredients: 15 grams of grass fruit seeds, 15 grams of aconite (pre-boiled), 15 grams of Corydalis yanhusuo, 10 grams each of white cardamom (added later), clove (added later), mountain hawthorn, fennel, and licorice, 5 grams each of dried ginger, cardamom (added later), and melia toosendan.
Preparation: Boil the ingredients with an appropriate amount of water, simmer twice, remove the residue, and collect 300 milliliters of the decoction.
Usage: Take 1 dose per day, warm, morning and evening.
12. Grass Fruit Seven Jujube Soup
Benefits: Treats malaria.
Prescription: Equal parts of grass fruit, Changshan, fritillaria, areca, jujube, licorice, and black plum, doubled for Artemisia annua.
Usage: Take 4 qian with 1.5 cups of water, boil until reduced to 7 parts, and drink it through the mouth. Boil the residue again and drink it.
