🌿 Folk Prescriptions

Blood-nourishing medicinal chickens
1. Angelica-Astragalus Steamed Chicken: One hen, 100 g processed astragalus, 20 g angelica, seasonings as needed. Wrap angelica and astragalus in cloth. Clean hen, remove feathers and internal organs. Blanch in boiling water, rinse with cold water. Place wrapped herbs inside hen. Put in a bowl, arrange scallions and ginger. Add chicken broth, yellow wine, ground pepper. Seal bowl with wet paper, steam for about two hours. Remove paper, scallions, ginger, and herbs. Season with MSG and salt. Eat. Nourishes essence and blood—ideal for premature ejaculation, nocturnal emission, low sperm count, and azoospermia due to essence-blood deficiency.
2. Longan Wrapped Chicken: 200 g longan flesh, 100 g walnut meat, 500 g tender chicken, 2 egg whites, 150 g cilantro, 15 g ham slices, seasonings as needed. Remove skin from chicken, slice. Toast walnuts in oil until crisp, chop finely. Wash cilantro. Rinse longans, pick out kernels. Mix egg white with water and starch into a paste. Chop scallions and ginger. Marinate chicken slices with MSG, salt, sugar, pepper, sesame oil, scallions, ginger, walnuts, longans, and egg-white paste. Lay rice paper on board, place a bit of cilantro leaf, a ham slice, then lay chicken slices on top, fold into rectangular packets. Heat vegetable oil, fry packets until golden, serve. Warms center, boosts qi, nourishes kidneys, solidifies essence—ideal for decreased libido, restlessness, insomnia, memory decline.
3. Polygonum-Braised Chicken: 30 g polygonum multiflorum, 10 jujubes, 30 g ginger, one hen, seasonings as needed. Clean hen, remove feathers and internal organs. Wrap herbs in cloth, place inside hen. Put in clay pot with water, simmer over low heat until chicken is tender. Discard herb bag, add scallions, pepper, salt, MSG, boil, eat with meal. Nourishes liver blood, replenishes kidney essence—ideal for low semen volume, azoospermia due to liver blood deficiency and kidney essence insufficiency.
4. Two Gelatin Rice Porridge: 5 g donkey-hide gelatin, 5 g fish bladder gelatin, 1 large bowl chicken broth, 50 g rice, salt as needed. Wash rice, add broth and water, cook into porridge. Just before serving, add both gels, melt thoroughly, add salt, reboil once or twice. Consume 1–2 times daily. Nourishes essence and blood—ideal for impotence, premature ejaculation, low semen volume.

5. Eight Treasures Tripe Chicken Soup: 10 g each of codonopsis, poria, white atractylodes, white peony root, angelica, rehmannia, 5 g each of fried licorice and ligusticum, one hen, 150 g pork tripe, 50 g fish tripe, 500 g pork, 1500 g pork bones, 30 g ginger, 10 jujubes, seasonings as needed. Wrap eight herbs in cloth. Clean hen, remove feathers and internal organs. Wash tripe. Rehydrate and clean fish tripe. Wash pork and bones, crush large bones. Place all in pot with water, boil over high heat, skim foam. Add ginger, jujubes, scallions, wine, pepper, fennel, cinnamon, and sandalwood, simmer until tender. Discard herb bag, slice meat and tripe, return to pot, boil, season with salt and MSG. Consume 2–3 times weekly. Nourishes qi and blood—ideal for dizziness, weakness, lower back and knee pain, impotence due to frequent sexual activity.
6. Longan-Angelica Chicken: 30 g longan, 30 g angelica, one hen. Clean hen, remove feathers and internal organs, blanch briefly, cut into chunks. Simmer over low heat until half-cooked, add longan and angelica, continue cooking until done. Consume 2–3 times weekly. Nourishes essence and blood—ideal for frequent nocturnal emission, palpitations, insomnia, vivid dreams.
7. Angelica-Codonopsis-Red Dates Chicken Soup: 10 g each of angelica, codonopsis, astragalus, 10 jujubes, 30 g ginger, one black-boned hen, seasonings as needed. Clean black-boned hen, cut into chunks. Wrap herbs in cloth. Add water, cook together until hen is tender. Discard herb bag, season with scallions, pepper, salt, MSG. Consume. Tonifies qi and blood, nourishes yin and promotes essence—ideal for insufficient essence, premature ejaculation, palpitations, shortness of breath, weakness in limbs.
8. Nutritious Hen Soup: 30 g processed astragalus, 30 g yam, 10 g codonopsis, 10 g angelica, 1000 g old lotus root, one hen, seasonings as needed. Clean hen. Wrap remaining herbs. Cut lotus root into chunks. Wrap spices like cinnamon, fennel, ginger, pepper in cloth. Place all in pot with water to cover. Boil over high heat, reduce to low heat, simmer until chicken is tender. Discard herb bags and spices. Season with salt and MSG. Consume. Tonifies qi and blood—ideal for dietary and therapeutic nourishment of essence-blood deficiency in men.