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

Invigorate Blood Tea Egg

Yang deficiency/CHD, Angina

Ingredients:
15g Dan Shen
15g Hong Hua
10g Tao Ren
20 chicken eggs
Directions:
1. Place all the ingredients in a pan with enough cold water to cover.
2. Bring the water to a boil, then reduce heat to low and let the eggs simmer for 10 minutes,
or until they are hardboiled.
3. Take the eggs from the pan and refresh the eggs in cold water.
4. Drain the eggs and lightly tap and role the shells on a hard surface to crack them. Do not
remove the shell.
5. Put the cooked eggs back to the same pan simmer with the same mixture for 30 minutes.
6. Turn off the heat and let the eggs sit in the tea mixture until they are cool enough to
handle. Remove the shell and serve the eggs warm or cold.
Actions/Indications/Functions
o Invigorate blood, disperse stasis

Honey coated Walnut

Yin deficiency/constipation

Ingredients:
500g Walnut
500g honey
Directions:
1. Stir fry and cook walnut
2. Mix with honey.
Actions/Indications/Functions
o Nourish yin, moisten intestine, good for constipation
o Tonify lung, kidney, good for deficiency asthma

Heart Healthy Tea

Dampness, food stagnation, excess heat, blood stagnation / High cholesterol, high blood

pressure, prevention of atherosclerosis, prevention of cancer etc

Ingredients:
21/4 cups water
1 tsp (2g) - green tea leaves
2 tbsp (5g) - chrysanthemum flowers (Ju Hua)
1 rounded tbsp (10g) - Hawthorn berries (Shan Zha)
Honey or other natural sweetener to taste
Directions:
1. In a small pot boil the water.
2. Combine the tea, chrysanthemum flowers, hawthorn berries and boiled water in a saucepan
or teapot.
3. Steep for 5 to 10 minutes, until the desired strength, then strain.
4. Add honey to your cup, if desired.
5. Keep filling the pot or teapot with hot water throughout the day, making new cups of tea to
drink to quench your thirst.
Actions/Indications/Functions
• Drains dampness
• Relieves food stagnation (especially good for digestion of fat)
• Clears heat
•Moves the blood

He Shou Wu Sea Cucumber Soup (首烏燉海參)

Ingredients:
He Shou Wu (Fallopia multiflora ) 25g
Sea Cucumber 60g
Chinese Red Date 4g
Cooking Instruction:
1. Wash all ingredients and and cut sea cucumber into pieces
2. Blanch sea cucumber in boiling water for a few minutes; drain, rinse with cold water
3. Put all ingredients in a double layer steamer, add appropriate amount of water, cover
with lid and steam for 2 hours over low heat
4. Add a pinch of salt and serve
Actions/Indications/Functions:
1. Tonify liver blood, benefit liver yin
2. Benefit qi, nourish yin, tonify kidney, strengthen yang, moisten intestine, unblock bowel,
promote urination, treat jaundice
3. Tonify qi and blood, harmonize spleen and stomach
Caution:
• Not suitable for patient with damp-heat (diarrhea, fever, abdominal pain, jaundice, bitter
taste in mouth, scanty and yellow urination) or exterior syndrome with fever, headache
or sore throat.

Ginseng Notoginseng Chicken Soup

Essence deficiency/Alzhiemer

Ingredients:
10g Ginseng
30g Notoginseng
30g Suan Zao Ren
1 Chicken (~500 – 750 g)
Directions:
1. Clean chicken
2. Put all ingredients is the steaming pot and add water
3. Steam 2 hours
4. Add salt to taste
Actions/Indications/Functions
o Tonify qi invigorate blood
o Nourish marrow supplement essence

Ginger Mint Green Tea

Clearing Heat

Ingredients:
3 ounces Ginger, sliced
1 cup Mint Leaves
6 bags Green Tea
½ cup Honey
2 tbsp Lemon Juice
6 cups Water
Directions:
1. In a large saucepan over high heat, combine ginger and water and bring to a boil
2. Remove from heat and add mint and tea bags
3. Cover pot and let steep for 15 minutes
4. Strain liquid into a large pitcher or other container.
5. Add honey and lemon juice and stir
6. Leave out until it has cooled to room temperature or refrigerate
7. Serve
Actions/Indications/Functions
o Clears heat
o Harmonizes Spleen and Stomach to aid in digestion
o Soothe the Liver
o Ease thirst

Enhance the Qi Mountain Yam Congee

Spleen qi deficiency/ Poor appetite, fatigue, loose stools or diarrhea, diabetes (no sugar),

child malnutrition etc

Ingredients:
1/2 pound - Fresh Chinese yam (Shan Yao)
1/2 cup - Uncooked short grain white rice
4-5 cups - Water
A pinch of salt
Condiments:
Rice vinegar, soy sauce, salt, and/or sesame oil for a savory congee.
Small amount of honey or other natural sweetener for a mildly sweet congee.
Directions:
1. Peel the Chinese yam and cut it lengthwise into halves or quarters, then widthwise into 1/8
inch slices. It has a slimy texture when raw, but will disappear when cooked.
2. Combine the Chinese yam, rice, water and salt in a medium-size pot and bring to a boil.
Lower the heat and simmer, occasionally. Add a little extra water if you see the congee is
drying out or becoming too thick for your taste.
3. Serve warm with the condiments of your choice.
Actions/Indications/Functions
• Tonify the spleen

Garlic Stir Fried Bitter Melon (蒜茸苦瓜)

Ingredients:
1. ku gua (苦瓜) bitter melon 2 Ib
2. Da suan (大蒜) garlic 3 claves
3. Sheng jiang (生姜) fresh ginger 3 slices
4. Qing cong (青葱) green onion 60 g
5. Sheng chou (生抽) soy sauce 1 tbp
Seasoning: pinch of salt
Cooking methods:
1. Wash the bitter melon, remove the seeds and cut the cucumber into slices, pinch 1
teaspoon of table salt on the cucumber and mix well, let it sit for 1 hour, then
rinse the salt from the cucumber.
2. Peeled garlic, cut into small pieces
3. Wash green onion and cut into about 2 inches long
4. Put 2 tbsp of vegetable oil into the hot pan, then put in ginger, garlic and onion
and stir-fried about 10 seconds
5. Add in black fungus and white fungus and soy sauce and stir-fried about 1 minute
6. Add in celery and stir-fried about 1 minute
7. Add ¼ cup of water and cover the lid until boiling
8. Pinch of salt and serve
Function:
1. Calming the liver and
2. clearing away heat, brighten the eyes
3. relieve thirsty
4. treatment of heat stroke, diabetes

Fugus Goji Lily Bulb Salad

General/Hypertension, CHD, Diabetes, insomnia

Ingredients:
1 Cup black Fungus (soak for 4 hours)
1 Cup white fungus (soak for 4 hours)
½ Cup Goji berry (soak for 1/ hour)
2 lily bulb
2 Tbsp Soya Sauce
Juice of 1 lemon
Directions:
1. Blanch both fugues and cut into bite size
2. Marinate with lemon juice and soya sauce for 2-3 hours
3. Clean and separate lily bulb
4. Mix the marinated fungus, goji berry and lily bulb together.
Actions/Indications/Functions
o Nourish Yin, generate body fluid
o Nourish Lung Yin, moisten dryness, stop cough
o Cool blood, prevent and treat bleeding disorder
o Tonify liver & kidney yin, brighten the eyes
o Clear Heart, treat insomnia
o Strengthen the spleen, relieve food stagnation, promote digestion

Fu Shou Yu Jin Congee (佛手鬱金粥)

Ingredients:
Fu Shou (Citrus Medica) 15g
Yu Jin (Radix Curcumae) 12g
Rice 60g
Cooking Instruction:
1. Wash all ingredients and put into a pot
2. Add appropriate amount of water, bring to boil and turn to medium heat
3. Cook until become thick porridge
4. Add a pinch of salt or sugar and serve
Actions/Indications/Functions:
1. Smooth qi, stop pain, harmonize stomach, transform phlegm
2. Invigorate blood, move qi, stop pain, release stagnation
3. Clear heart, benefit gallbladder, treat jaundice
4. Generate body fluid
Caution:
• Not suitable for patient with deficiency cold of spleen and stomach (blend taste in the
mouth, profuse saliva, cold pain in epigastria, loose or watery stools)

Frog and Enoki Mushroom Rice (田雞金針菇飯)

Ingredients:
Frog Legs 60g
Enoki Mushroom 30g
Rice 150g
Cooking Instruction:
1. Wash Enoki mushroom and frog legs and season with sugar, salt, soya sauce, ginger,
corn starch
2. Wash and cook rice until half cooked
3. Put frog legs and Enoki mushroom on top of rice, cover with lid and cook on low heat
until fully cooked
Actions/Indications/Functions:
1. Strengthen spleen, benefit stomach, detoxification
2. Promote urination, reduce swelling
3. Nourish yin
Notes:
• This dish is very suitable for liver disease patient and is recommended to eat regularly
in order to treat the disease and strengthen the body.

Fleece Flower Root (Shou Wu) Congee (首乌百合粥)

Ingredients:
1. He shou wu (何首乌) fleece flower root 30 g grounded into powder
2. Bai he (百合) Lily bulb 50 g
3. Gou qi zi (枸杞子) Lycium fruit 15 g
4. Da zao (大枣) Jujube 10 pieces
5. Da mi (rice) (大米) Polished round-grained rice 200g
6. Sheng jiang (生姜) fresh ginger 5 slices
7. Brown sugar: right amount
Cooking methods:
1. Rinse Lily bulb, Lycium fruit, dates, and rice.
2. Put items 2~6 in pot and add 3 liters of water. Bring to boil and then turn to
medium heat. Cooking until ingredients are tender (around 60～90 minutes).
3. Add the fleece flower root powder and mix well with the congee,
4. Add brown sugar into the congee; stir until the sugar is dissolved, then serve.
Function:
1. Replenish Jing (Essence) and nourish the blood of the liver and kidney;
2. Eliminate toxin
3. Moistens lung and the intestine to relieve cough and constipation
4. Lower cholesterol, treat cardiovascular disorders
5. common used to treat blood and jing deficiency related disorders, such as
a. high cholesterol, hypertension and coronary heart disease
b. premature gray hair,
c. nocturnal emissions, vaginal discharge, menstrual disorders,
d. anemia, dizziness,
e. blurred vision,
f. tinnitus,
g. lower back and leg pain and weakness, and so on.

Five Juice Drink (五汁飲)

Ingredients:
1. Asian Pear 160g
2. Water Chestnut 160g
3. Lotus Root 160g
4. Carrot 160g
5. Bamboo Sugar Cane 160g
Cooking methods:
1. Rinse, peel and juice all ingredients
2. Mixed and serve.
Actions/Indications/Functions:
1. Release symptoms due to insufficient body fluids such as post chemotherapy or
radiotherapy
2. Reduce Urinary Tract Infection (UTI) signs such as hot burning sensation and
frequent urination.

5 element Soup

General/Prevent Cancer, diabetes, high blood pressure

Ingredients:
260g Burdock
260g Radish
260g Carrot
50g Radish leave
2-3 Shitake Mushrrom
Directions:
1. Clean all the above ingredient and cut into large pieces.
2. Add in 6 cups water and bring to boil.
3. Turn down heat and simmer for 1 hour.
Actions/Indications/Functions
o Strengthen immune system, anti-aging, prevent cancer, high cholesterol, high
blood pressure and diabetes.
o Clear heat, relieve toxin, nourish 5 organs, strengthen body

Fish Fin and Vegetables Soup (鱼翅蔬菜汤)

Ingredients:
1. Xin Xian yu chi (新鲜鱼翅) Fresh fish fin 1 Ib
2. si gua( 丝瓜) Towel gourd ½ Ib
3. bai luo bo (白萝卜)Radish ½ Ib
4. hu luo bo(胡萝卜) Carrot ½ Ib
5. Xi qin (西芹) celery ½ Ib
6. Sheng jiang (生姜) fresh ginger 3-5 slices
7. Qing cong (青葱) green onion 3 pieces
8. yuan xi (芫茜), xiang cai (香菜) Herba Coriandri 50 g
Seasoning: pinch of salt
Cooking methods:
1. Wash the fresh fish fin;
2. Peal Towel gourd , Radish and Carrot, wash all the vegetables and cut into pieces
3. Wash celery and cut into pieces
4. Wash green onion and cut into about 2 inches long
5. Cut up the fresh fish fin into pieces, pat dry with a paper towel;
6. Put 2 tbsp of vegetable oil into the hot pan, and then put in ginger, and fish fin
into the pan, frying until both sides of the fish fin turn to brownish. Then add 2 L
of water into the pan, bring to boil in high power, and then turn into median cook
for 15 minutes
7. Pinch of salt and serve
Function:
1. Nourish the kidney and liver yin;
2. Soften and disperse the lumps;
3. Clear away pathogenic heat and resolve phlegm
4. Cooling the blood
5. Detoxification
6. Relieve symptoms of febrile diseases such as fever, restlessness, thirsty
7. Relieve symptoms of phlegm retention syndrome: cough, dyspnea
8. Relieve food stagnation and regulate the middle-jiao
9. Used for febrile disease with hyperactivity of liver yang, yin-deficiency with hot
flush and sweating
10. Control hematemesis, nose bleeding, diabetes, dysentery, migraine headache
11. Relieve symptoms of febrile diseases such as fever, restlessness, thirsty
12. Relieve symptoms of phlegm retention syndrome: cough, dyspnea
13. Prevention and treatment of cardiovascular disease, diabetes, menopause
syndrome and tumor and cancer

Fennel & Tangerine Salad

Dysmenorrhea due to Blood Stasis & Pathogenic Cold

Ingredients:
1 Fennel Bulb
5 Tangerines
1 Pomegranate
¼ Red Onion
½ Bunch Parsley
¼ Cup Olive Oil
1 Lemon
Salt & Pepper (optional)
Directions:
1. Slice fennel & onion thinly
2. Peel tangerines
3. Seed Pomegranate
4. Chop Parsley
5. Juice Lemon
6. Place all ingredients into a bowel with the olive oil and lemon juice.
7. Add salt and pepper to taste
Actions/Indications/Functions
o Expel Cold
o Invigorate Blood & Qi
o Relieve abdominal pain

Enhance the Qi Mountain Yam Congee

Spleen qi deficiency/ Poor appetite, fatigue, loose stools or diarrhea, diabetes (no sugar),

child malnutrition etc

Ingredients:
1/2 pound - Fresh Chinese yam (Shan Yao)
1/2 cup - Uncooked short grain white rice
4-5 cups - Water
A pinch of salt
Condiments:
Rice vinegar, soy sauce, salt, and/or sesame oil for a savory congee.
Small amount of honey or other natural sweetener for a mildly sweet congee.
Directions:
1. Peel the Chinese yam and cut it lengthwise into halves or quarters, then widthwise into 1/8
inch slices. It has a slimy texture when raw, but will disappear when cooked.
2. Combine the Chinese yam, rice, water and salt in a medium-size pot and bring to a boil.
Lower the heat and simmer, occasionally. Add a little extra water if you see the congee is
drying out or becoming too thick for your taste.
3. Serve warm with the condiments of your choice.
Actions/Indications/Functions
• Tonify the spleen

Eight Treasures Winter Melon Soup

Ba Bao Dong Gou Tang 八寶冬瓜湯

Ingredients:
1. Winter Melon (冬瓜) White Gourd 750 g
2. Lian Zi (蓮子) Lotus Seed 10 pieces
3. Yi Yi Ren (生薏仁) Job’s Tears Seed 60 g
4. Gou Qi Zi (枸杞子) Goji Berry 20 pieces
5. Chicken Leg (雞腿) 2 – 3
6. Chinese Ham (火腿) 1 slice
7. Shrimp (蝦) 10
8. Dry Chinese (Shiitake) Mushroom (冬菇) 2 – 3 pieces
9. Pork Bone (豬骨) 500g
10. Corn flour (生粉) ½ teaspoon
11. Light soya sauce (生抽) 3 teaspoons
Cooking methods:
1. Blanch pork bone in boiling water for a few minutes; drain, rinse with cold water
2. Wash the winter melon; remove the green skin, seeds, and the pulp. Cut into 1cm pieces
3. Soak Chinese dried mushrooms in hot water for 20 - 30 minutes until softened. Squeeze
out any excess water, dice
4. Clean and soak Yi Yi Ren, Lian Zi in cold water for 30 minutes
5. Clean Gou Qi Zi and soak in cold water for 10 minutes
6. Dice Chinese ham
7. Clean chicken leg; remove skin, fat tissue and bones. Dice and season with corn flour and
soya sauce
8. Clean and remove shell and intestines from shrimps
9. Place the pork bone in 2 liters of boiling water; bring to boil, and simmer for 2 - 3 hours
10. Drain the soup from 9 to remove pork bone and oil; bring to boil
11. Place the shiitake mushroom, ham, Yi Yi Ren, Lian Zi and winter melon in the soup,
bring to a boil, and simmer for approximately 30 minutes or until the winter melon is
tender.
12. Add Gou Qi Zi, chicken and shrimp; bring to boil and simmer for 10 minutes.
13. Season with salt if necessary
14. Add green onion for garnish. Serve hot.
Actions/Indications/Functions:
 Cooling, clear heat (especially summer-heat)
 Detoxify

 Quench thirst, relieve irritability
 Dispels dampness, induce diuresis
 Strengthen spleen, stomach
 Tonify qi & blood
 Commonly used to prevent and treat
a. spleen deficiency with dampness related fatigue, lace of energy, anorexia, and
diarrhea, gynecological disorders, such as vaginal discharge with fatigue
b. summer-heat and dampness related syndromes, such as nausea, vomiting, diarrhea,
muscle tendon, and joint pain or stiffness,
c. treat lung abscess characterized by purulent, thick sputum containing pus and
blood, cough, nasal discharge,
d. it is also used to treat intestinal infectious diseases, such as appendicitis
e. Obesity, diabetes, UTI and particularly effective in regulating blood sugar

Eight Treasures Congee

Qi and blood deficiency, Summer-heat and Dampness

Ingredients:
30g - Red Bean (Hong Dou)
30g - Mung Bean (Lu Dou)
30g - Small Red Bean (Chi Xiao Dou)
30g - Dolichos Nut (Bian Dou)
30g - Euryale (Qian Shi)
30g - Job’s Tears (Yi Yi Ren)
10pc - Chinese Red Date (Hong Zao)
10pc - Dried Longan Pulp (Long Yan Rou)
200g - Polished Round Grain Rice (Da Mi)
Right Amount - Brown Sugar (Hong Tang)
Directions:
1. Rinse the red bean, mung bean, small red bean, dolichos nut, euryale and job’s tears and then
soak for 30 minutes
2. Rinse dates, longan and rice and drain
3. Put all items except the sugar in 2 liters of water and bring to a boil
4. Cook for 60-90 minutes or until ingredients are tender
5. Add the brown sugar, stirring until dissolved
Actions/Indications/Functions
• Strengthen spleen and stomach
• Tonify qi and blood
• Clear summer-heat and dampness
•Eliminate toxins

Eight Treasure stuffed Chicken in lotus leaf

Yin deficiency/Diabetes, diarrhea

Ingredients:
1 chicken deboned
1 Lotus Leaf
1 C sticky rice
10g Chi Xiao Dou
10g Lotus Seed
10g Dired Lily Bulb
10g Qian Shi
10g Yi Yi Ren
10g Da Zao
10g Mung Bean
10g Dried Mushroom
Directions:
1. Deboned chicken and add soya sauce, salt, sugar, peper to marinate for 1 hour.
2. Soak next 8 ingredients in water. Boil Chi Xiao Dou, Qian Shi, Yi Yi Ren for half hour
or until tender.
3. Add 1 Tbsp oil and fried mushroom until fragrant, add rice and stir fry with all other
ingredients, add a tablespoon of water or soaking water at a time until sticky rice is half
cooked. Cool.
4. Stuff chicken with rice mixture.
5. Pour Hot Water to Lotus Leaf and soak for 5 mins
6. Wrap chicken with lotus leaf.
7. Steam for 1 hour or until rice is cooked.
Actions/Indications/Functions
o Strengthen spleen and stomach, tonify liver and kidney
o Tonify qi and blood., nourish yin
o Clear summer heat and dampness.
o Eliminate toxin

Egg White and Almond Soup (蛋白杏仁茶)

Ingredients:
1. Egg white 2
2. Evaporated milk 150 ml
3. Nan Xing (南杏) Bitter Chinese Almond 160g
4. Bei Xing (北杏) Sweet Chinese Almond 20g
5. Sugar appropriated amount
Cooking methods:
1. Rinse bitter and sweet Chinese almonds.
2. Soak in water for 3 hours.
3. Drain and set aside.
4. Pour sweet and bitter Chinese almond into blender.
5. Add appropriate amount of water and blend to puree.
6. Strain off residue.
7. Bring almond liquid to boil.
8. Add sugar, evaporated milk and egg white and keep stirring.
9. Bring to boil over low heat.
10. Serve.
Actions/Indications/Functions:
1. Relieving cough; soothing breathing difficulties and nourishing lung
2. Improving skin condition; enhancing skin smoothness and elasticity

Dumplings with Poria (茯苓水饺)

Ingredients:
1. Jiao zi pi (饺子皮) dumpling wrapper 2 Ib
2. Shou zhu rou (瘦猪肉) lean pork 1 Ib
3. Jiu cai (韭菜) chive 1Ib
4. Xiang gu (香菇) Shiitake mushroom 10 pc
5. Sheng jiang (生姜) fresh ginger 10 g
6. Qing cong (青葱) green onion 100 g
7. Sheng chou (生抽) soy sauce 1 tbp
8. Sesame oil 2 tsps
9. Table salt 1 tsp
10. White sugar 2 tsps
11. Chinese brown rice vinegar (for dipping)
Cooking methods:
1. Mince the lean pork into filling
2. Soak mushroom, rinse and chop into small pieces
3. Rinse the chive, ginger and onion and chop into small pieces.
4. Rinse the ginger and onion and chop into small pieces
5. Add mushroom, chive, ginger, onion, white sugar, table salt, sesame oil into the
meat; stir to mix them thoroughly
6. Make dumplings by wrapping up some meat filling with the dumpling wrappers.
7. Boil 2 liter of water, then add the dumpling into the boiling water one by one,
slowly stir them, and then cover the lid.
8. Bring to boil again, then add one cup of cold water and slowly stir the dumplings,
and then cover the lid.
9. Repeat the step 7 two more times, then take the dumplings out of the water and
ready to serve.
Function:
1. Nourish the heart, tranquilizing the mind
2. Invigorating the spleen, inducing the appetite
3. Removing dampness
4. Resolving phlegm
5. Inducing dieresis to alleviate edema
6. Eat them as a regular basis can strengthen the stomach and spleen functions and
improve the constitution and immunity
7. It is especially benefit for patient with poor appetite caused by spleen dysfunction,
edema due to hypofunction of the spleen.

Dry Soy Bean Curd and Ginkgo Congee (腐竹白果粥)

Ingredients:
1. Fu zhu (腐竹) dry soy bean curd 50 g
2. Bai guo (白果) semen ginkgo 20 pieces
3. Da mi (rice) (大米) polished round-grained rice 200 g
4. Sheng jiang (生姜) fresh ginger 5 slices
5. Qing cong (青葱) green onion 30 g
Seasoning: pinch of salt
Cooking methods:
1. Dry-fried the semen ginkgo without oil until aroma
2. Rinse rice
3. Soak the dry soy curd, then cut into pieces
4. Rinse ginger and cut into pieces
5. Wash green onion and cut into small pieces
6. Put items 1-4 in pot and add 3 liters of water. Bring to boil and then turn to
medium heat. Cooking until ingredients are tender (around 60-90 minutes)
7. Add the green onion into the congee, and add in seasoning and serve
Function:
1. Tonify lung and relieve asthma
2. Strengthening spleen
3. Invigorating the middle-jiao and replenishing qi
4. Arrest wheezing and dispel phlegm
5. Relieving epigastric distention
6. Moistening dryness
7. Common used for the treatment of respiratory disorders especially effective in
relieve cough and wheezing (heat type of cold or asthma)

Dang Gui Sheng Jiang Yang Rou Tang

General/Dysmenorrhea

Ingredients:

500g mutton

60g Dang Guii

30g Huang Qi

5 slices ginger

Directions:

1. Blanch mutton, drain and clean,

2. Add all ingredients in a pot with 6 C water, simmer for 2 hours.

Actions/Indications/Functions

o Tonify qi nourish blood, warm middle jiao

o treat spontaneous sweating, blood deficiency after delivery, dysmenorrheal and

pain all over the body

Cucumber Fried Milk (黃瓜炒牛奶)

Ingredients:
1. Cucumber 500g
2. Egg White 10
3. Milk 250ml
Cooking methods:
1. Clean cucumber and cut into thin slices
2. Beat egg white until smooth and mixed with milk
3. Heat 1 tablespoon of vegetable oil in a nonstick skillet over medium-high heat until hot
4. Fry cucumber until just cooked, add appropriate amount of salt and mix well, remove
and set aside
5. Heat a tablespoon of vegetable oil in the skillet, add milk and egg white mixture slowly;
stirring in one direction until half cooked, add cucumber and stir-fry until cooked
Actions/Indications/Functions:
1. Clear heat, detoxification, generate body fluid, promote urination, eliminate swelling
2. Tonify yin, nourish blood, eliminate vexation, calm mind
3. Benefit stomach, moisten dryness, nourish yin
Caution:
• Not suitable for patient with qi stagnation in the spleen and stomach (distension of
abdomen, epigastric pain, belching)

Cleansing Seaweed Scrambled Eggs

Cleansing or Masses

Ingredients:
2 tbsp Coix (Yi Yi Ren)
1 tbsp dried, precut Wakame Seaweed
3 Eggs
1 tbsp Vegetable Oil (Canola/Olive)
Pinch Salt
Pinch Pepper
Directions:
1. Soak coix in warm water for about 30 minutes, then drain
2. Boil 2 cups of water and add coix and seaweed.
3. Lower heat and simmer, partially covered, for about half an hour until ingredients are
soft. Drain then set aside
4. Crack eggs into a bowl and stir. Heat oil in a pan then add eggs. Cook, stirring, until not
quite done.
5. Add seaweed and coix and cook for 1-2 more minutes
6. Add salt and pepper to serve
Actions/Indications/Functions
o Move stagnation
o Drain dampness

Chuan Bei and Mint Leaf with Honey (川貝薄荷蜜)

Ingredients:
1. Chuan Bei (川貝) Fritillaria Bulb 20g
2. Bo He (薄荷) Mint Leaf 10g
3. Honey 5 tbsp
Cooking methods:
1. Rinse Chuan Bei. Drain and set aside.
2. Rinse mint leaves, Discard stem to prevent bitter and tangy taste.
3. Put Chuan Bei, mint leaves and 1 L of water into a double-boiling-jug. Cover jug
with lid.
4. Put jug in a pot of boiling water. Simmer for 1 hour.
5. Add honey and mix well.
6. Double boil for another 10 minutes.
Actions/Indications/Functions:
1. Clears heat, transforms phlegm, stops many types of cough
2. Expels wind heat particularly from the head region - fever, headaches, red eyes,
cough, sore throat.
3. Treat chronic, yin-deficient, difficult to expectorate phlegm, blood streaked
sputum; best for cough with stifling sensation in the chest.

Chrysanthemum White Fungus and Pear Soup (菊花木耳百合梨子糖水)

Ingredients:
• Ju Hua 菊花 Chrysanthemum 150g
• Bai Mu Er 白木耳 White Fungus 1 piece
• Fresh Bai He 鲜百合 Fresh Lily bulb 3 pieces
• Gou Qi Zi 枸杞子 Barbary Wolfberry 25g
• Shan Yao 山药Rhizoma Dioscoreae 60g
• Li 梨 Pear 4 pieces
• Bing Tang 冰糖 Rock Sugar
Cooking Instructions:
 Rinse & soak Mu Er & Shan Yao in water for 30 minutes
 Clean fresh Bai He & Gou qi zi
 Peel pear and cut into small pieces
 Rinse Ju Hua and put it in a soup bag
 Boil 4 liters of water in a pot. Put the soup bag in and boil for 10 – 15 minutes
 Let stand with lid on
 Remove bag after the decoction cools down
 Add Shan Yao and cook until tender
 Add Mu Er & Gou Qi Zi and boil for another 30 minutes
 Add fresh Bai He, pear & rock sugar and bring to boil
 Serve hot or cold
Actions/Indications/Functions:
 Nourish yin
 Tonify qi
 Clear liver , subdue yang, benefit the eyes
 Generate body fluid, moisten dryness
 Treat Xiao Ke (diabetes) syndrome
 Moisten lung to stop cough
 Nourish stomach yin and harmonize middle jiao
 Clear heat, relieve toxin
 Clear heart, calm spirit
 Recommended for patients with hypertension or diabetes

Chrysanthemum Broccoli

Excess heat, toxic heat, dryness / Cancer prevention, recovery of chemotherapy or
radiation, red eyes, dry skin, acne, headache, high blood pressure etc

Ingredients:
20g - Dried white wood ear fungus
10g (3-4 tbsp) - Dried chrysanthemum flowers
1 bunch - Broccoli, cut into bite size pieces, discarding the stem (or saving for a soup)
2 tbsp - Soy sauce
2 tbsp - Lemon juice
2 tbsp - Sesame oil
1/2 tsp - Honey, maple syrup or other natural sweetener
Directions:
1. Soak the white wood ear and chrysanthemum flowers in warm water for 15 to 20 minutes,
then drain. Wash the wood ear, cut off its tough fibrous base and cut into 1/4 inch wide
strips.
2. In a large pot, bring to a boil enough water to cover the ingredients. Add the white wood ear,
chrysanthemum flowers and broccoli, and cook, covered for 4 to 6 minutes, until the
broccoli is tender but not mushy. Drain the water and let the vegetables cool. Remove the
chrysanthemum flowers.
3. In a small bowl, mix together soy sauce, lemon juice, sesame oil, and honey (if using) to
make a dressing.
4. In a serving bowl, toss the vegetables with the dressing. Serve at room temperature.
Actions/Indications/Functions
• Clears heat
• Clears heat toxin
• Moistens body fluids
•Nourishes yin

Chive Stir Fried Lily Bulb (韭菜炒百合)

Ingredients:
1. Jiu cai (韭菜) chive 1Ib
2. Xian bai he (百合) fresh lily, lily bulb 3
3. Sheng jiang (生姜) fresh ginger 10 g
4. Qing cong (青葱) green onion 100 g
5. Da suan (大蒜) garlic 3 claves
6. Sheng jiang (生姜) fresh ginger 3 slices
7. Sheng chou (生抽) soy sauce 1 tbp
8. vegetable oil 2 tsps
9. Table salt right amount
Cooking methods:
1. Wash Chive and cut into about 2 inches long
2. Wash 3 fresh lily bulb and peel into pieces
3. Peeled garlic, cut into pieces
4. Wash green onion and cut into about 2 inches long
5. Put 2 tbsp of vegetable oil into the hot pan, then put in ginger, garlic and onion
and stir-fried about 10 seconds
6. Add in chive, fresh lily bulb and soy sauce and stir-fried about 2 minute
7. Add in fresh lily bulb and stir-fried about 2 minute
8. Add ¼ cup of water and cover the lid until boiling
9. Pinch of salt and serve
Function:
1. Tonify the liver and kidney
2. Fortify yang
3. Clear the heart, Consolidates jing (essence), Calms the shen (spirit)
4. Warm the stomach, Nourish stomach yin
5. Harmonize the middle jiao
6. Moisten the lung and arrest cough
7. Treat chronic stomach qi reversal such as vomiting, hiccups, etc.

Soup with Chinese Yam, Lycium Fruit, Glehnia, and Polygonatum Rhizome (淮山杞子沙参玉竹汤)

Ingredients:
1. Huai shan (淮山) Chinese Yam 30 g
2. Gou qi zi (枸杞子) lycium fruit 15 g
3. Sha shen (沙参) glehnia 15 g
4. Yu zhu (玉竹) polygonatum rhizome 30 g
5. Lian Zi (莲子) Lotus seed 30 g
6. Bai he (百合) lily, lily bulb 30 g
7. Wu hua guo (无花果) fig 2 g
8. Sheng jiang (生姜) fresh ginger 10 g
9. An chun (鹌 鹑) Quail 3
Seasoning: pinch of salt
Cooking methods:
1. Rinse the Chinese herbs (items 1-6) then soak in water
2. wash the Quail and cut into pieces
3. Wash fig and fresh ginger and cut them into pieces
4. Put all ingredients in pot and add 2 liters of water. Bring to boil and then turn to
medium heat. Cooking until ingredients are tender and soup thickens (around 60-90
minutes)
5. Add in seasoning and serve.
Function:
1. Tonify qi
2. Nourish spleen, stomach and kidney yin and nourish blood
3. Calms the shen (spirit)
4. Moisten lung yin and generate body fluid
5. Prevent digestive disorders, respiratory disorders and diabetes

Chestnut Chicken

Ingredients:
2 lb Chicken Leg
20 Chestnut
12 pc dried mushroom
3 Tbsp Soya Sauce
½ tsp salt
1Tbsp Cooking rice wine
Dash white pepper
2 sl fresh ginger root
Oil
Directions:
1. Soak dried mushroom
2. Sheel chestnut.
3. Chopped chicken legs into 2 inch sections, add in marinate and marinate for ½ hour
4. Heat oil in a heavy pan, add in ginger, quickly brown chicken, stir fry about 1 minute
5. Add mushroom, chestnut and water just enough to cover the checken.
6. Cover a dn simmer for 35-45 minutes
7. Serve hot with rice.
Actions/Indications/Functions
• Tonify qi, strengthen immune system, anti-cancer, anti-infective.
• Nourish blood
• Tonify stomach spleen and kidney
• Promote blood circulation, arrest bleeding

Chestnut and Fruit Cake (栗子蛋糕)

Ingredients
1. 16 eggs (鸡蛋), separate egg whites and egg yolks
2. 300 g of white sugar (白糖)
3. 200 g of floor (面粉)
4. 100 g cornflour (玉米粉)
5. 100 g of chestnut flour (栗子粉)
6. 90 g of butter melted (牛油)
7. 2 tsp of vanilla extract
Divided the above ingredients into two equal portions for making 2 spongy cake
bases
8. 500g of chestnut jam 500 g li zi jiang (栗子浆)
9. fresh sliced strawberry Xian cao mei (鲜草莓) right amount for decorating the
cake
10. fresh sliced kiwi Xian mi hou tao (鲜猕猴桃) right amount decorating the cake
11. whipping cream right amount decorating the cake
Utensils you need for making the spongy cakes
1. mixer with whisk attachment
2. rubber spatula
3. spring form pan 26 cm/10 inch diameter lined with parchment
4. bowl
5. sieve
6. wooden skewer
How to make a spongy cake?
The above ingredients are using to make two spongy cakes. So we have to divide the
ingredients into two equal portions. Here are the steps for making one spongy cake.
1. Preheat the oven, set the to 180 C/ 350 F
2. Mix the 8 egg yolks: place the egg yolks into the mixer and mix on high speed until
creamy, after 1 min, add about 2 tbsp sugars, continue to mix until the mixture becomes
thicker , then add vanilla extract, keep mixing until the mixture double in volume
Turn off mixer, transfer the egg yolk to a separate bowl
Thoroughly washing the mixing bowl the attachment, and preparation for egg white
Useful tips: make sure that the mixer attachment and the bowl are washed extremely
clean, if not any fat that remain in these utensils will negatively affect the whipping of the
egg whites

3. Whip the egg whites: place the 8 egg white in the clean mixer bowl, beat on high until
white and frothy, slowly add the sugar a bit at a time, once the mixture is clings, it is
ready combine the egg yolks and egg whites
4. Introduce the egg yolks to the egg white mixture, and fold them in with spatula
Tips: make sure do not over-mix
5. Complete the batter
1. combine the flour, the cornflour and chestnut flour in sieve
2. using your hand slowly sift it into the mixture, sifting the flour will make the cake
lighter
3. fold together without over-mixing
4. add the melted butter and combine
6. Bake
1. using rubber spatula, transfer the butter into spring form pan, spread the butter
evenly with the spatula and shake pan to remove air
2. put the cake in oven to bake for about 30 min
7. Remove the cake
1. test the cake to see if it is ready, insert a wooden skewer to the center of the
cake, the cake is ready if the skewer comes out butter-free
2. set aside to cool before removing from the pan
3. once the cake turns to cool, using very sharp knife and running around the
edge of the cake
4. remove the spring from the pan
Take the same steps to make the second same spongy cake
8. Decorate the cake:
1. remove the superficial layer (the brown portion) and the bottom layer (the brown
portion)
2. apply the chestnut jam on the top of one spongy cake, then put the second spongy
cake on the top of this cake
3. Combine whipping cream, the 1 tablespoon sugar, and the 1 tablespoon sherry in
the chilled bowl. Beat on low speed until soft peaks form. Spread on top and sides
of cake.
4. Top with fruits (strawberry, kiwi and so on) and served

Function:
1. Tonic blood
2. Strengthen the heart, spleen, stomach, liver and kidney
3. Promote qi and bold circulation
4. Lubricate the lung and relieve thirsty
5. Detoxification

Champion Chicken with Goji Berries

Weakness due to Illness or Surgery

Ingredients:
2 tbsp Olive Oil
2 cloves Garlic, peeled and minced
1 (3/4 inch) piece Fresh Ginger, peeled and minced
1 roasting Chicken, skinned and cut up OR 3-4 lbs skinless legs and/or breasts
2 medium sized Green Onions, chopped into ½ inch pieces, roots and tough tips discarded
3-4 tbsp Rice Wine or Dry Sherry
2 tbsp Soy Sauce
2 tbsp Goji Berries
1 ½ cups Water or Vegetable Stock
1 tsp Dark Sesame Oil
Directions:
1. Heat oil in a pan and then add garlic and ginger and cook until garlic is golden (approx. 5
mins)
2. Place chicken, garlic, ginger, green onions, wine, soy sauce, goji berries and water in a
pot
3. Bring mixture to a boil and cover and lower the heat to a simmer. Cook for about 30
minutes or until the chicken is cooked through
4. Sprinkle the sesame oil on top as a finishing touch
5. Serve in a bowl with some of the broth or on top of rice with the broth as gravy
Actions/Indications/Functions
o Warms the Stomach
o Tonifies Qi
o Nourishes Blood
o Strengthens Liver and Kidneys

Burdock Salad

General/Diabetes, stomach cancer, arteriosclerosis

Ingredients:
1 burdock root
1 pear
2 Tbsp lightly toasted sesame seed
2 Tbsp rice vinegar
2 Tbsp sesame oil
2 Tbsp Soya Sauce
Directions:
1. Peel Burdock and cut into thin slices.
2. Boil in salt water for 10 minutes, drain.
3. Cut pear into small cubes.
4. Mix all ingredients together.
Actions/Indications/Functions
o Clear heat, relieve toxin, reduce swelling, treat carbuncles.
o Clear pathogenic heat, promote production of body fluid, moisten dryness
o Relieve heat type cough, Toothache, sore throat, constipation

Buddhist Tofu Soup

Spleen deficiency, middle jiao disharmony, excess dampness/ Hypertension, high blood

sugar, high cholesterol, weight control, cancer prevention etc

Ingredients:
8 to 10 - Dried shiitake or other mushrooms
1 to 2 cups - Water
1 (12-14 oz) package - Firm tofu, cut into 1/2 inch cubes
1 cup - Fresh bamboo shoots, cut into 1/2 inch cubes
4 cloves - Garlic, peeled and minced
1 (1 inch) piece - Ginger, peeled and minced
6 cups - Vegetable broth
1 cup - Chinese cabbage or bok choy, chopped into 1/2 inch slices
1 Tbsp - Dark sesame oil
1 Tbsp - Soy sauce, or to taste
2 Tbsp - Oyster sauce (vegetarian is available)
Directions:
1. Soak the shiitakes in warm water for about 20 minutes. Reserve the water for later use.
Remove and discard the stems if desired. Chop the mushrooms into 1 inch pieces.
2. Combine the mushrooms, reserved mushroom water, tofu, bamboo shoots, garlic, ginger and
broth in a saucepan, bring to a boil, then lower the heat and simmer for about 10 minutes.
3. Add the Chinese cabbage to the soup, cook for another 5 mintues.
4. Add the sesame oil, soy sauce, and the oyster sauce (if using), then serve.
Actions/Indications/Functions
• Tonify the spleen
• Harmonize the middle jiao

Bok Choy with Wood Ear and Shiitakes

Excess heat, blood stasis, middle jiao stagnation/ Diabetes, cancer, high cholesterol, or

constipation etc.

Ingredients:

1/3 cup (1/2 oz, or 15g) - Dried black wood ear fungus

5 - Dried shiitake mushrooms

3 - 2 oz bundles cellophane noodles, mung bean preferred

4 Tbsp - Sesame oil

3 cloves - Garlic, peeled and chopped

1 (1 inch) piece - Ginger, peeled and minced

1 small - Onion

1 large - Carrot, cut into match size pieces

2 clusters - Baby bok choy or 3/4 pound of regular bok choy or Chinese cabbage

2 Tbsp - Mirin or dry sherry

3-4 Tbsp - Soy sauce or to taste

Pepper - To taste

Directions:

1. Soak the wood ear for 30 minutes in warm water, where it will expand to two to five times its

original size. Rinse the wood ear, remove and discard the fibrous base, and cut into 1 by

1/4 inch strips.

2. Soak the dried shiitakes in warm water for 20 minutes, or until soft. Drain, reserving the

water for later use. Squeeze the excess liquid from the mushrooms and, if desired, discard

the stems. Cut the mushrooms into 1/4 inch slices.

3. Soak the noodles in a bowl of hot water for about 15 minutes, or until soft. Drain and cut the

noodles into 3-inch pieces with scissors or knife.

4. In a large wok or saute pan, heat 2 Tbsp of the sesame oil over medium-high heat. Add the

garlic, ginger and onions, stir fry for about 2 minutes.

5. Add the carrots, then the bok choy. Continue to stir fry for about 5 minutes, until the

vegetables are cooked.

6. Mix together a sauce from 1/2 cup of the water from soaking the mushrooms, mirin, soy

sauce, and the remaining 2 Tbsp of sesame oil.

7. Add the noodles to the wok, then pour in the sauce. Stir. Continue cooking until the noodles

have been heated and the liquid has been absorbed, 5-10 minutes.

8. In the mean time, toast the sesame seeds in a dry skillet over medium heat until golden

brown, stirring or shaking frequently, about 5 minutes. When they are done, remove them

immediately from the hot skillet so they don’t burn.

9. Sprinkle the sesame seeds on top of the noodles and add pepper if using to taste.

Actions/Indications/Functions

• Clear heat

• Move blood

•Regulates middle jiao

Black and White Wood Ear Tofu

Blood deficiency, yin deficiency / High cholesterol, high blood pressure, prevention of

atherosclerosis etc

Ingredients:

15g (1/2 oz) - Dried black wood ear fungus

15g (1/2 oz) - Dried white wood ear fungus

2 Tbsp - Olive oil

2 cloves - Garlic, peeled and minced

1 (15-19oz) package - Firm tofu, cut into 1 inch cubes

1/4 cup - Vegetable or chicken broth

1/4 cup - Fresh cilantro leaves

Salt

Condiments: Black pepper, hot chilli oil

Directions:

1. Soak the black fungus and white wood ear for 30 minutes in warm water, where it will

expand to two to five times its original size. Rinse the wood ear, remove and discard the

fibrous base, and cut into 1/4 inch strips.

2. Heat the oil in a medium-size pan over medium heat, then add the garlic. Cook for about 30

seconds until fragrant.

3. Add the wood ear and cook, stirring occasionally, for 3-5 minutes.

4. Add the tofu, then the broth. Bring to a boil, then lower the heat and simmer, covered for 5

minutes.

5. Add salt to taste, garnish with cilantro, serve with condiments.

Actions/Indications/Functions

• Tonify qi and blood

•Nourish yin

Bitter Melom with Black Bean Sauce

Ingredients:
1 bitter melon
2 Tbsp Black Bean chopped
2 cloves Garlic, chopped
Oil
Pinch of sugar
Directions:
1. Blanch bitter melon and dip in ice water
2. Heat oil, add in garlic and black bean and fry until fragrant
3. Add water to make source
4. Mix in bitter melon
Actions/Indications/Functions
• Clear heat, release exterior, detoxification
• Calming the liver
• clearing away heat, brighten the eyes
• relieve thirsty
• treatment of heat stroke, diabetes sore throat and eye infection

Bitter Melom Pickle

Ingredients:
1 bitter melon
3 Tbsp Goji Berry
1 can 7-up or Sprite
Directions:
1. Blanch bitter melon and dip in ice water
2. Let Cool, Mix in Goji Berry and cover with 7-up or Sprite
3. Sit for at least 24 hours
Actions/Indications/Functions
o Calming the liver
o clearing away heat, brighten the eyes
o relieve thirsty
o treatment of heat stroke, sore throat and eye infection

Beef Shank Stew with lily flower and black fugus

Yang deficiency/Hypertension, Insomnia, Alzheimer, Aging, Anemia
Ingredients:
8 oz Beef shank
9g Dried Lily Flower
15g Black Fungus
8 dried mushroom
4 red dates (remove seed)
4 green onions
3 sl ginger
1 clove minced garlic
Sauce:
½ tsp salt
½ tsp sugar
1 tsp soya sauce
1tsp oyster sauce
Pepper
Sesame oil
2/3 C water or stock
Corn starch water 2/3 tsp cornstarch mix well with 1 tsp water
Directions:
1. Slice beef shank and marinate with soya sauce, sugar, salt, water, oil, corn flour.
2. Blanch with oil
3. Add 1 Tbsp oil, fry garlic, ginger until fragrant, add sauce, and rest of ingredient except
beef and green onion to boil, add beef and simmer for ½ hour.
4. Stir in corn starch water and green oil..
Actions/Indications/Functions
o Regulate qi, nourish stomach
o Tonify qi and blood., yang, strengthen tendon
o Relieve anxiety, calm irritation, improve memory

American Ginseng, Chinese Red-date and Lycium Fruit Tea (西洋参, 红枣, 枸杞子茶)

American Ginseng, Chinese Red-date and Lycium Fruit Tea

(西洋参, 红枣, 枸杞子茶)

Ingredients:
1. Xi yang shen (西洋参) American ginseng 15 g
2. Hong zao (红枣) Chinese red-date 20 pieces
3. Gou qi zi (枸杞子) lycium fruit 15 g
4. Hong tang (红糖) brown sugar: right amount
5. Shen jiang (生姜) fresh ginger 3 pcs
Cooking methods:
1. Rinse the Chinese herbs (items 1-3)
2. Wash the fresh ginger and cut into pieces
3. Put all ingredients in pot and add 1.5 liters of water. Bring to boil and then turn to
medium heat for 10 minutes.
4. Add the brown sugar and drink it when it is warm or in room temperature.
Function:
1. Tonify qi and blood, prevention and treatment of anemia.
2. Nourish spleen, stomach and kidney yin and nourish blood
3. Calms the shen (spirit), use to treat insomnia.
4. Moisten lung yin and generate body fluid
5. Improve immunity, prevent and treat immunodeficiency syndrome caused by chronic
diseases, such as AIDS, chemotherapy, radiotherapy and so on.

American Ginseng, Reishi, Red Date and Wolfberry Tea

Qi, Blood and Yin Deficiency/ Anemia, hypertension, coronary heart disease, stroke,
insomnia, immunodeficiency from AIDS, chemotherapy, radiotherapy etc


Ingredients:
15g - American Ginseng (Xi Yang Shen)
30g - Reishi Mushroom (Ling Zhi)
20pc - Chinese Red Date (Hong Zao)
15g - Wolfberry (Gou Qi Zi)
3pc - Fresh Ginger (Sheng Jiang)
Right amount - Brown Sugar (Hong Tang)
Directions:
1. Rinse the Chinese herbs (Ginseng, Mushroom, Date, Wolfberry)
2. Wash the fresh ginger and cut into pieces
3. Place all the ingredients into a pot with 1.5 liters of water and bring to a boil
4. Simmer on medium for 10 minutes
5. Add the brown sugar and drink when it is warm or room temperature
Actions/Indications/Functions:
• Tonify qi and blood
• Nourish spleen, stomach, kidney yin
• Calm the spirit
• Moisten lung yin and generate body fluids
•Strengthen immunity