Ingredients:
- one large fresh snail or half pounds frozen snail head,
pork 4 liang or 30 grams, poria (Fuling), semen euryales, rhizome dioscoreae and white peeled semen nelumbinis, each around 3 qian or 10 grams, - ginger one piece,small amount of salt.
Method of cooking:
- One fresh shelled snail, deprived of viscera and adherent dirty substances. Clean it with water.
- If frozen snail is used, clean after defrost. Discard the water.
- Cut the pork into pieces and discard the water.
- Put all materials into a boiling pot, add adequate amount of water. First, use quick fire, then change to moderate and slow fire for 2 to 3 hours.
- Seasoning well when eating.
Effect:
Snail is sweet in taste, salty and mildly cold in character; it nourishes yin, brightens the eye, promotes urination and generation of body fluid.
Ginger is acrid in taste, warm in character; it expels superficial and cold evils, warms stomache and eliminates toxin.
As to other materials, please refer to “Swimming bladder four spirits soup”.
Suitable for
- patient who had too much liver fire but insufficient of kidney yin