Clinical Manifestations of Dampness-Obstructing the Spleen Type Obesity:
Obesity, shortness of breath, fatigue, excessive and sticky phlegm, chest and epigastric stuffiness, poor appetite, lethargy, heaviness of the body, excessive sleepiness, enlarged and pale tongue with thick and greasy coating, and slow pulse.
【Lotus Leaf Duck】
Ingredients: 200g duck meat, 25g glutinous rice flour.
Method: Remove the bones from the duck meat and cut it into pieces. Chop 5 star anises and fennel seeds, stir-fry them with glutinous rice until cooked, and grind them into fine powder. Then, mix soy sauce, cooking wine, monosodium glutamate, chopped scallions, ginger, and pepper to make a sauce. Soak the duck meat in the sauce for 2 hours, then mix in the glutinous rice flour. Cut a lotus leaf into 4 pieces, wrap the duck meat with the lotus leaf, place it in a plate, steam for 2 hours on high heat.
Efficacy: Tonify Qi and reduce fat.
Usage: Consume once every other day with a meal.
【Pork with Clam and Radish Stew】
Ingredients: 500g pork leg meat, 100g clams, 1000g white radish.
Method: Soak the dried clams in warm water for half an hour, remove impurities, and keep them soaked in the original liquid. Cut the pork into pieces. Cut the radish into diamond-shaped pieces. Heat a wok, add 1 tablespoon of vegetable oil, and heat the oil over high heat. Add the pork and stir-fry for 3 minutes. Add a tablespoon of yellow wine and stir-fry until the pork is cooked. Transfer the pork to a clay pot, then pour in the clams and the soaked liquid. Add a suitable amount of water, simmer over low heat for 1 hour. Then, add the radish. If there is not enough water, add an appropriate amount, and continue simmering for half an hour until the radish is cooked. Season to taste.
Efficacy: Transform phlegm and remove dampness.
Usage: Consume with meals.
【Shredded Radish and Beef Stir-Fry】
Ingredients: 500g white radish, 250g lean beef.
Method: Wash and cut the radish and beef into thin shreds. Marinate the beef with salt, yellow wine, soy sauce, and starch. Heat a wok, add 1 tablespoon of vegetable oil, and heat the oil over high heat. Stir-fry the radish shreds first, add a suitable amount of salt, and stir-fry until 80% cooked. Remove and set aside. Heat another wok, add 3 tablespoons of vegetable oil, and heat the oil over high heat. Add the beef shreds and stir-fry for 3 minutes, then add the radish shreds and mix well. Add a tablespoon of yellow wine and a little cold water, simmer for 3 minutes, add scallions, stir a few times, and serve.
Efficacy: Tonify the spleen and the stomach, promote blood circulation, and remove water and phlegm.
Usage: Consume with meals.
【Weight Loss Tea】
Ingredients: 60g dried lotus leaf, 10g raw hawthorn, 10g raw coix seed, 5g orange peel.
Method: Grind all the ingredients into fine powder, mix well, and put them in a thermos. Brew with boiling water.
Efficacy: Regulate Qi circulation, reduce fat, and clear turbid substances.
Usage: Consume one dose daily, drink as a tea at any time.
【Oolong Tea】
Ingredients: 3g oolong tea, 18g sophora fruit, 30g polygonum vine, 18g winter melon peel, 15g hawthorn flesh.
Method: Boil sophora fruit, polygonum vine, winter melon peel, and hawthorn flesh with an appropriate amount of water for 20 minutes. Use the decoction to brew oolong tea.
Efficacy: Reduce fat, promote fitness, and prolong life.
Usage: Consume one dose daily, drink at any time.
【Assorted Oolong Porridge】
Ingredients: 30g raw coix seed, 100g winter melon seeds, 20g red adzuki beans. An appropriate amount of dried lotus leaf and oolong tea.
Method: Use a piece of coarse gauze to wrap the dried lotus leaf and oolong tea. Put the raw coix seed, winter melon seed, and red adzuki beans in a pot and cook in water until they are cooked. Then, add the wrapped dried lotus leaf and oolong tea and simmer for 7-8 minutes. Remove the gauze bag and consume.
Efficacy: Strengthen the spleen and remove dampness.
Usage: Consume in the morning and evening.
