🌿 Folk Prescriptions

Angelica and Codonopsis Stewed Female Snow Chicken
Ingredients and Preparation: 20g Angelica, 30g Prince’s Ginseng, 1 male chicken, appropriate amounts of ginger paste, cooking wine, fine salt, sesame oil, green onion, and monosodium glutamate. Slaughter the snow chicken, remove feathers, internal organs, and blood, wash clean. Place angelica and prince’s ginseng inside the chicken cavity, put in a large clay pot, add cooking wine, fine salt, ginger paste, green onion, and water. Bring to a boil over high heat, then reduce to low heat and stew until meat is tender. Add monosodium glutamate and sesame oil before serving.
Usage and Indications: Eat meat and drink soup. If available, consume regularly. This recipe suits women with Yang deficiency of the kidneys, manifesting as constitutional weakness, cold lower energizer, lack of interest in sex, cold extremities, fatigue, poor appetite, loose stools, scanty menstrual flow, pale color, thin consistency, occasional lower abdominal cold pain, sensation of coldness in the genital area, pale or sallow complexion, pale tongue, thin white coating, and deep slow pulse. If snow chicken (native to Xinjiang and Tibet) is unavailable, substitute with a young male chicken.
Summer Grass Female Dove Nourishing Soup
Ingredients and Preparation: 10g Cordyceps, 1 female dove, appropriate amounts of fine salt, cooking wine, ginger paste, and monosodium glutamate. Wash cordyceps and soak in water for 120 minutes. Slaughter the female dove, remove feathers, internal organs, and blood, wash clean. Place dove, cordyceps, and soaked water in a large earthenware jar, bring to a boil over high heat, then add cooking wine, fine salt, ginger paste, reduce to low heat, stew for 90 minutes. Add monosodium glutamate before serving.
Usage and Indications: Drink soup, eat meat and cordyceps. If possible, consume regularly. This soup warms the middle energizer, strengthens the kidneys, solidifies essence, and enhances Yang. Suitable for women with Yang deficiency of the kidneys and low libido. Also beneficial for men with impotence, though male doves are preferable.
Revitalizing Gecko Wine
Ingredients and Preparation: 15g Gecko, 15g Ginseng, 30g Epimedium, 30g Goji Berries, 20g Epimedium, 1500ml premium white wine. Place all ingredients and wine in a bottle, seal tightly, ready for consumption after 60 days.
Usage and Indications: Drink 20–50 ml before bedtime each night. Start with smaller doses; do not exceed 100 ml per dose. This wine enhances kidney Yang, nourishes essence and blood. Suitable for women with Yang deficiency of the kidneys and low libido.
Ginseng Deer Antler Wine
Ingredients and Preparation: 30g Ginseng, 10g Deer Antler, 1500ml premium white wine, 50g rock sugar. Place ginseng, deer antler, and rock sugar in a bottle, seal tightly, ready for consumption after 60 days.
Usage and Indications: Drink 20–50 ml before bedtime each night. This wine gradually nourishes the lower energizer, generates essence and blood, strengthens Yang and bones. Ideal for women with Yang deficiency of the kidneys and low libido.
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Double Joy Fish Roe Tofu
Ingredients and Preparation: 500g soft tofu, 50–150g carp roe, 1 egg, 10g hibiscus flower, appropriate amounts of flour, water starch, ginger threads, green onion, fine salt, soy sauce, Sichuan pepper, monosodium glutamate, and lard. Blanch tofu in boiling water for 1 minute, drain, cut into large pieces resembling braised meat. Boil hibiscus flower in a clay pot, collect first and second decoctions, mix and set aside. Beat egg whites in a bowl, add flour, fine salt, and water starch, mix into a batter. Heat a wok over high flame, add about 500g lard, once hot, dip tofu pieces in egg batter and fry until golden yellow, remove and place in a porcelain bowl. Reheat wok, pour hibiscus juice in, add carp roe, ginger threads, fine salt, cooking wine, Sichuan pepper, green onion, and soy sauce, cook until roe is done, add water starch and monosodium glutamate, thicken. Steam the tofu, remove, invert onto a large plate, pour sauce over.
Usage and Indications: Serve as a side dish, preferably consumed regularly. Function: Soothes liver, regulates Qi, relieves depression, calms the spirit, nourishes essence, and enhances Yang. This dish features unique flavor and excellent color, aroma, and taste, suitable for women with liver Qi stagnation and low libido, presenting symptoms such as emotional depression, chest and rib distension, irregular menstruation, lack of interest in sex, thin white tongue coating, and fine or wiry pulse.