【Ingredients】
20g water chestnuts, 10g goji berries, 200g abalone, 1 egg, 20ml cooking wine, 2g salt.
【Instructions】
Peel and dice the water chestnuts. Remove the shell and intestines from the abalone, then wash it in vinegar water before making crosshatch cuts on the back. Soak the goji berries in warm water until softened. Place the abalone in a steaming dish, add the soaked goji berries, egg, cooking wine, and salt, and mix well. Steam over high heat for 10 minutes, then sprinkle with the soaked goji berries and steam until cooked.
【Benefits】
Nourishes yin and clears heat, nourishes the liver and improves eyesight, and has anti-tumor properties. It is suitable for the auxiliary treatment of ailments such as sores, irritability, difficult urination, headaches, dizziness, pharyngitis, nephrotic syndrome, hypertension, hyperlipidemia, pulmonary tuberculosis, migraines, malnutrition, and tumors.
【Precautions】
(1) Water chestnuts have a cold nature, so they should be avoided by those with spleen and kidney deficiency and coldness, as well as blood deficiency.
(2) Water chestnuts have a cold nature, so they should not be consumed by patients with thromboangiitis obliterans, decreased sexual desire, uterine prolapse, scarlet fever, chickenpox, or bacterial dysentery.
(3) Abalone should not be consumed when there is impaired liver function or signs of hepatic encephalopathy.
(4) It should not be consumed while taking levodopa, as levodopa is incompatible with high-protein foods.
(5) Patients with bronchial asthma should not consume it to avoid triggering or worsening asthma attacks.
(6) Those with external pathogenic heat, spleen deficiency with dampness, or slippery bowels should not consume soaked goji berries. Pregnant women should not consume goji berries.
(7) Consume 2-3 times a week as a regular part of the diet.
