Steamed Danggui Chicken
EFFICACY: Blood tonic, invigorate blood, lubricates intestines by increasing peristalsis, regulate menses, headaches due to blood deficiency, chest and abdominal pain, amenorrhea, menorrhalgia, regulates functional bleeding, uterine regulating effects, antibacterial
INGREDIENTS
1 LB Fresh chicken
1/2 C Black fungus: presoak for 1 hour
1 C Shiitake Mushrooms: presoak dried material for 1 hour and massage
1 C Lily Flower – presoak dry flowers for 30 minutes
5 TBS Soy sauce
3 TBS Oyster sauce
1 TSP Fresh ginger: grated or julienne
4 Garlic cloves crushed
10 GM Danggui: presoaked in water for 1 hour
3 clusters Anise
1/2 TSP Sesame oil
1 TSP Raw sugar
2 TBS Shaoxing wine or other good quality wine
1/4 C Green onions: cut into 1 inch pieces
To taste Salt, Pepper
DIRECTIONS: Add all ingredients to a ceramic bowl. Steam for 15 minutes.
CHICKEN, sweet, warm, SPLEEN LIVER KIDNEY
FUNCTION: jing tonic, warm the middle burner, strengthen Qi, increase marrow, convalescence when weak and deficient, urinary deficiency, anorexia
ALCOHOL: bitter sweet pungent warm toxic HEART LIVER LUNG STOMACH
FUNCTION: invigorate blood, clear cold pathogen, enliven spleen, warm zhong jiao, promote immediate affect of herbs, arthralgia due to wind cold, muscle spasm, obstruction of qi in chest, cold and pain in chest and abdomen
GREEN ONION: pungent, warm, LUNG STOMACH
FUNCTION: clear superficial syndrome, activate yang, detoxify toxic material, clear chills fever and headache due to exogenous febrile disease, abdominal pain due to yin cold, ascaris intestinal obstruction, constipation, urochesis, dysentery, carbuncle, swelling
GINGER: pungent, fresh ginger warm, dry ginger hot SPLEEN LUNG STOMACH
FUNCTION: Fresh ginger – relieves exterior syndrome, disperse cold, arrest vomiting, resolve sputum, wind-cold vomit, wind-cold productive cough and wind-cold chills. Dry ginger – warms middle burner, eliminate pathogenic cold, revives depleted yang, invigorate blood circulation, cold pain in chest & stomach, vomit, diarrhea, cold extremities, faint pulse, asthma and cough due to fluid retention caused by internal cold, joint pain due to wind-cold-damp, hemoptysis, nose bleed, yang vacuity hemafecia
PEANUT OIL – sweet, neutral, SPLEEN LUNG LARGE INTESTINE
FUNCTION: spleen tonic, moisten lung, loosen bowels to remove parasite, moisten intestine, vermifuge
BLACK OR WHITE PEPPER: pungent, hot, STOMACH LARGE INTESTINE
FUNCTION: warm middle burner, descend Qi, clear phlegm, treat cold phlegm & food stagnation, cold pain in the abdomen, regurgitation, watery vomit, diarrhea, cold dysentery, External: treat skin & exterior disease, poisonous snake or dog bite, detoxicant
SALT: salty, cold, STOMACH KIDNEY LARGE INTESTINE SMALL INTESTINE
FUNCTION: cool blood, induce vomit, resolve phlegm, clear heat, detoxicant, food stasis in stomach chest, stomach distention, difficult urination and defacation, bleeding gum, sore throat, toothache, skin disease, insect bite
SOY SAUCE - sweet, salty, neutral, LUNG SPLEEN
FUNCTION: aid digestion, reduce pain from bee & wasp sting, pain due to scalding
SUGAR - sweet, neutral, LUNG SPLEEN
FUNCTION: invigorate middle burner, replenish Qi, moisten lung, regulate stomach, treat cough and asthma due to dry lungs, deficient lung, wind cold pathogen, fatigue due to overwork, infantile malaria, fasting dysentery, aphthae, toothache due to pathogenic wind fire
BLACK FUNGUS: sweet, even, STOMACH LARGE INTESTINE
FUNCTION: clear blood heat, nourish Qi, urinary stones, lower high blood pressure, blood dysentery, uterine bleeding (beng lou), stops bleeding
BLACK HAIRY FUNGUS: sweet, even, KIDNEY LIVER LUNG
FUNCTION: promote and nourish qi and blood, moisten lung, stop bleeding, anti-tussive, hematuria, high blood pressure, uterine bleeding, spitting blood
GARLIC: acrid, warm, SPLEEN STOMACH LUNG
FUNCTION: promote circulation of retained Qi, warms spleen and stomach, remove abdominal mass, detoxicant, vermifuge, teats retention of food , cold and pain sensation in abdomen, hydpros, turgor, diarrhea, dysentery, malaria, whooping cough, boils, pyogenic infections, tinea capitis, snake bite
LILY FLOWER: sweet, even, HEART LIVER SMALL INTESTINE
FUNCTION: It promotes channel circulation, increases appetite, clears pediatric epistaxis due to heat or dry-fire symptoms and not functional or trauma, clear lung heat, invigorate weak liver qi, lily flower with meat soup clears liver fire with exuberant dryness, excess liver fire and other liver disease except cancer, contraindicated in spleen stomach damp heat, tonify spleen vacuity and treats chest conditions.
Three Mushroom and Chinese Celery Stirfry
EFFICACY: This delicious vegetarian dish smooths the energy action of the liver, calms liver heat, replenish Qi and blood, clears blood vessels, anticarcinogenic, lowers cholesterol, detoxifies blood, and tonify kidney and liver yin. Hence, this is a perfect culinary recipe for those suffering from high blood pressure, dizziness due to hyperactive liver yang, hyperlipemia, arteriosclerosis and high cholesterol.
INGREDIENTS:
8 Fresh Chinese celery stalks: slice into stalks about 3” x 1/4" strips
10 Black mushrooms: soak dried mushrooms 1 hour, massage, slice into thirds
1 cup Wood Fungus: soak 1 hour and wash thoroughly
2 cups Enoki Mushroom: cut roots off
2 cups Eryngii Mushroom: slice into bite size pieces
8 Clove garlic: crush
2 TBS olive oil or any other high quality cooking oil
1 TBS sesame oil
2 TBS soy sauce
to taste salt, pepper
DIRECTIONS: Add 1 tablespoon of oil into a preheated pan. When the oil starts to flow freely add the garlic. Be sure not to over cook the garlic or it will become bitter. Add celery, soy, 1 tablespoon of sesame seeds and pepper. When the celery is cooked but still crunchy add salt and sesame oil. You may need to add some water to retain the moisture of your vegetables. Remove celery and cook the rest of the ingredients the same way.
CELERY - sweet, bitter, cool, STOMACH LIVER
FUNCTION – calm liver, clear heat, expel wind, remove damp through diuresis, treat hypertension, vertigo, headache, flushed face, conjunctival congestion, dysentery with bloody stool, carbuncle and swelling, cataracts and nebula.
ENOKI MUSHROOM, VELVET FOOT: sweet, neutral, SPLEEN STOMACH
FUNCTION: anti-tumor, anti-carcinogenic, activates immune system, anti-bacterial, reduces elevated blood glucose levels, reduces high cholesterol, reduces high blood pressure, contain flammulin: anti-cancer & anti-tumor, 14 day shelf life refrigerated
MAITAKE MUSHROOM: sweet, neutral, SPLEEN STOMACH
FUNCTION: suppresses growth and metastasis of tumors, activates immune system, SX Fraction reduces blood glucose, normalize serum lipids, reduces high blood pressure, protects liver damage, lower LDL (bad cholesterol) raises HDL (good cholesterol), Hen of the Woods, 30 day shelf life
SHIITAKE MUSHROOM: sweet, neutral, SPLEEN STOMACH
FUNCTION: anti-carcinogenic, enhances T cell function, anti-viral, regulates immune system, lowers bad LDL cholesterol, and lowers high blood pressure.
KING TRUMPET MUSHROOM, ERYNGII: sweet, neutral SPLEEN STOMACH
FUNCTION: anti-carcinogenic, anti-tumor, regulates immune system, lowers cholesterol, and the high fiber content is helpful in promoting good bowel function, beta glucan found in these mushrooms have anti-oxidant properties that may prevent cancer metastisis, 12 day shelf life, best tasting and textured mushroom
