Mung Bean and Kelp Sweet Soup (绿豆海带糖水)

Ingredients:
1. Hai dai (海带) kelp 50 g
2. Lu dou (绿豆) mung bean 200 g
3. Sheng jiang (生姜) fresh ginger 10 g
4. Bing tang (冰糖) crystal sugar: a specific amount
Cooking methods:
1. Soak the kelp in water for 60 minutes, rinse, and cut into small pieces.
2. Rinse the mung bean
3. Put the kelp, mung bean and ginger slices in a pot and add 4 liters of cold water.
Bring to boil and then turn to medium heat. Cooking until ingredients are tender
(around 60 minutes).
4. Add the sugar; stir until the sugar is dissolved.
Function:
1. Cold hot syndrome, clear away pathogenic heat and summer heat
2. Induce diuresis
3. Loss weight
4. Prevent hypertension, high cholesterol and coronary heart disease
5. Detoxification

Mixture of Amomum Fruit and Lotus Root Powder (砂仁 藕 粉)

Ingredients:
1. Sha ren fen (砂仁粉) amomum powder 1.5 g
2. Mu xiang fen（木香粉）Aucklandia powder 1g
3. Lian ou fen (莲藕粉) Lotus root powder 100g
4. Hong tang (红糖)
brown sugar 1tbsp
Cooking Method:
1. 100g lotus root powder, amomum powder, and Aucklandia powder mixed with 2
cup cold water
2. boil 2 liter of water and then add sugar and stir to dissolve
3. Slowly add water chestnut powder mixture into the wok, turn heat under wok to
low. Stir mixture continually in one direction for 5 to 7 minutes, until mix is very
thick and pasty.
Function:
1. Tonify kidney and consolidate jing (essence), stabilize fetus during pregnancy period
2. Nourish the heart and calm the shen (spirit)
3. Regulate qi, Unblock qi stagnation, regulates the middle jiao and relieve pain, dispels
damp-heat,
4. harmonizes the liver and spleen, prevents stagnation.
5. Dissolve dampness, strengthens and spleen, warm the middle jiao, stop diarrhea,
6. Stabilizes pregnancy.
7. common used to treat
a. cardiovascular system disorders: such as hypertension, high cholesterol, heart
disease
b. Nervous system disorders: insomnia, anxiety, headache, and so on
c. Reproductive system disorders: menstrual pain, vaginal discharge, stabilize the
fetus during pregnancy period.
d. Urinary system disorders, such as UTI, urinary stone
e. Digestive system disorders: gastritis, peptic ulcer disease, enteritis, ulcerative
colitis and so on

Minute Meal

Emotional, Menopause, Cancer, Skin Conditions

Ingredients:
1-2 tsp Brown Sesame Seeds
1 ½ cup Water
1 rounded tsp Green Tea Leaves or 1-2 teabags
2 Eggs
1 tbsp dried precut Wakame Seaweed (optional)
1/3 cup shelled/frozen Peas
5 medium sized Spinach leaves or other greens, well washed, stems discarded, chopped into 3
inch pieces
1 ½ cups Cooked Rice, preferably brown
1-1 ½ tbsp Soy Sauce
Chili Pepper (optional to taste)
Directions:
1. If sesame seeds aren’t already roasted, toast the sesame seeds by putting them in a wide
skillet over medium heat, shaking the pan occasionally. Continue frying until fragrant (3-
5 mins). Remove the seeds from the hot skillet so they don’t over cook and set them
aside
2. Boil about 1 ½ cups of water, turn off heat and then add the tea. Let tea steep for 3-5
minutes or until the desired strength, then strain out tea or remove teabags
3. In a small saucepan, bring about 2 cups of water to a boil. Add eggs, wakame and peas.
Cook for about 3 minutes or until the white of the egg is cooked but the yolk is still
runny. Add the spinach and cook for 30 seconds, until the leaves are wilted. Turn off the
heat
4. Place rice in serving bowls. With a slotted spoon, remove the poached eggs and other
cooked items from the pot and arrange them on top of the rice
5. Pour tea over the rice and other ingredients. Add soy sauce to taste
6. Sprinkle sesame seeds on top to garnish and serve with chili pepper on the side if desired
Actions/Indications/Functions
o Strengthens Qi
o Clears heat
o Drains dampness

Mian Yin Chen Congee 綿茵陳粥

Ingredients:
1. Yin Chen Hao (茵陳蒿) Oriental Wormwood 60g
2. Geng Mi (梗米) Non-glutinous Rice 60g
Cooking methods:
1. Rinse Yin Chen Hao then soak in 6 cups of water for 30 minutes. Boil for 30
minutes. Remove dregs.
2. Rinse and put rice in a pot and add the decoction from step 1. Bring to boil and
then turn to medium heat. Cooking until the rice is tender.
3. Add appropriate amount of seasoning into the congee. Serve warm.
Function:
1. Clear heat, eliminate toxins
2. Benefit gall bladder, eliminate jaundice
3. Commonly used for acute hepatic jaundice

Lotus Seed & Longan Porridge

Anemia

Ingredients:
5-8 Lotus Seeds, cored
5-8 Longan Fruits, peeled and cored
1 small handful round grain rice
Directions:
1. Place ingredients and 2 cups of water in a pot
2. Bring water to a boil
3. Reduce heat and simmer, partially covered, stirring occasionally to keep rice from
sticking
4. Cook until rice becomes very tender and liquid becomes thick (30-40 minutes)
5. Serve warm
Actions/Indications/Functions
o Tonifies Qi

Lily flower with meat cake

General/promote lactation

Ingredients:
50g lily flowerl
200g lead ground pork
1 stalk green onion
1 tspr soya sauce
½ tsp salt
Directions:
1. Chopped lily flower and mix with rest of ingredients, make into flat patty.
2. Steam for 15 minutes,
Actions/Indications/Functions
o Nourish kidney, blood, promote lactation
o Treat lower back pain, tinnitus due to kidney deficiency, lack of lactation

Kelp, Black Fungus Stew with Yellow Soy Bean (昆布云耳焖黄豆)

Ingredients:
1. Hai dai (海带) kelp 50 g
2. Yun er (云耳) black fungus 30 g
3. Xian Gu (香菇) mushrooms 10 pieces
4. huang dou (黄豆) yellow soy bean 200 g
5. Sheng jiang (生姜) fresh ginger 3 slices
6. Qing cong (青葱) green onion 60 g
Seasoning: pinch of salt, sugar, sesame oil, soy sauce
Cooking methods:
1. Soak the kelp in water for 60 minutes, rinse, and cut into small pieces.
2. Soak black fungus for 30 minutes and rinse
3. soak the mushrooms for 30 minutes, rinse and cut into pieces
4. Rinse the yellow soy bean
5. Wash green onion and cut into about 1 cm long
6. Put the kelp, black fungus, mushrooms, soy bean and ginger slices in a pot and
add 2 cups of cold water. Bring to boil and then turn to medium heat. Cooking
until ingredients are tender (around 60 minutes).
7. Seasoning with green onion, pinch of salt, sugar, sesame oil, soy sauce and serve.
Function:
1. Cold the blood and hot syndrome
2. Arrest bleeding
3. Soften hardness
4. Promote functional activity of ST, regulate qi flow,
5. Calming mind,
6. Dextoxification,
7. anti-nausea and vomiting, anti-diarrhea,
8. lower blood cholesterol, blood pressure and blood sugar
9. Weight loss
10. Common use to prevent and treat
a. cardiovascular disorders, such as hypertension, heart disease, stroke
b. stop internal bleeding, such as GI bleeding and vagina bleeding
c. promote the immunity and reduce risk of breast/colon/prostate cancer,
d. control diabetes,
e. prevent osteoporosis, relieve menopausal symptoms
f. Benefit for patients with goiter, hiccupping, difficulty swallowing, edema
and pain of testes, vaginal discharge and so on