【Name】
Goji Berry Soup
【Ingredients】
1 catty of goji leaves, 1 pair of sheep kidneys (sliced), 3 taels of sheep meat (sliced), 7 stalks of green onions (sliced).
【Functions and Indications】
Effective for exhaustion and thinness.
【Usage and Dosage】
Cook the ingredients into a paste with five-flavored sauce and consume it on an empty stomach.
【Functions of Ingredients】】
1. Goji leaves
Nourishes deficiency, clears heat, relieves thirst, and brightens the eyes. It is used to treat fever and thirst, red and painful eyes, night blindness, excessive menstrual flow, heat-induced sores and swelling.
① "Materia Medica": "Can nourish deficiency and improve the color of the face, brighten the eyes, and calm the spirit. When cooked with sheep meat into a soup, it nourishes the body and has a strong effect in dispelling wind and brightening the eyes. It can also be boiled into a drink when feeling thirsty, replacing tea. When there is fever and various toxins causing restlessness, the juice can be boiled separately to relieve the symptoms and eliminate heat-induced facial toxins. It is particularly effective in treating eye wind, blurred vision, and eye pain. The juice can be applied to the eyes."
② "Dietary Therapy Materia Medica": "Strengthens tendons, resists aging, dispels wind, nourishes tendons and bones, nourishes the body, and treats deficiency and exhaustion."
③ "Compendium of the Classic of Materia Medica": "Relieves restlessness, nourishes the spirit, strengthens the heart and lungs, and dispels wind between the skin, flesh, and joints."
④ "Compendium of Materia Medica": "Clears heat in the upper part of the body, especially in the heart and lungs."
⑤ "Essential Compendium of the Properties of Medicinal Herbs": "Brightens the eyes, nourishes the deficient kidneys, calms the fetus, helps digestion, reduces fever, and treats excessive menstrual flow in women."
⑥ "The Original Classic of Materia Medica": "Can reduce heat and clear the head and eyes."
2. Sheep kidneys
Nourishes kidney qi and replenishes essence. It is used to treat kidney deficiency and exhaustion, lower back pain, weak knees, deafness, polydipsia, impotence, frequent urination, and involuntary urination.
① "Miscellaneous Records": "Nourishes kidney qi and replenishes essence."
② "Tang Materia Medica": "Cooking sheep kidneys with fat into a soup can treat exhaustion and diarrhea."
③ "Dietary Therapy Materia Medica": "Nourishes kidney deficiency, treats weakness, strengthens yang, tonifies the stomach, and stops frequent urination. It is used to treat weakness and sweating."
④ "Compendium of the Classic of Materia Medica": "Treats kidney deficiency and quenches thirst."
⑤ "The Original Classic of Materia Medica": "Treats kidney deficiency, bladder heat and retention, bladder paralysis, and painful and swollen urination."
3. Sheep meat
Tonifies qi, nourishes deficiency, warms the middle, and stimulates downward movement. It is used to treat deficiency and thinness, lumbago, postpartum coldness, abdominal pain, cold hernia, and stomach discomfort caused by deficiency.
① "Miscellaneous Records": "Regulates the middle, treats infantile malnutrition, treats excessive sweating due to fever, treats deficiency and coldness, tonifies the middle, nourishes qi, calms the heart, and stops convulsions."
② "Essential Prescriptions Worth a Thousand Pieces of Gold for Emergencies - Food Therapy": "Regulates the middle, relieves pain, and benefits women in labor." "Head meat: treats dizziness and thinness, infantile epilepsy, and damage from overwork."
③ "Dietary Therapy Materia Medica": "Improves appetite and promotes weight gain." "Head meat: treats bone steaming, cerebral heat, dizziness, and improves eyesight."
④ "Daily Use Materia Medica": "Treats lumbago, weak knees, strengthens tendons and bones, and nourishes the intestines and stomach."
