Effect:

Promote flow of Qi and blood circulation, nourish blood and build up the body.

Ingredient:

Chicken 1, jinzhen 30g, Jew's ear 75g, Chinese dates 10, liquor, salt.

Process:

1. Kill the chicken and address it. Open its stomach and get rid of the internal organs, boil it in the boiling water for a short while and then get it out. Wash away the blood with pure clean water and cut it into dices.

2. Soften Jinzhen and Jew's ear with water and eliminate the hard part on the ends; wash the Chinese dates and smash it.

3. Put the chicken and all the other ingredients into a pot and add a proper amount of water. First cook them on strong fire until boiling and then put them on slow fire for an hour. Add some salt and the decoction is ready to be served.

Nature of Ingredients:

1. The chicken has a sweet flavor and a mild nature. Effect: warm the middle-energizer, supplementing Qi, replenishing vital essence and marrow. Indications: emaciation due to consumptive disease, deficiency in middle energizer with anorexia, diarrhea and thirstiness, watery distension, thamuria, metrorrhasia and metrostaxis, leukorrhea, postpartum hypo-galactic.

2. Jinzhen has a sweet and sour flavor and a cold nature. Effect: clear away dampness and heat, tranquilizing the internal organs. Indications: nosebleed, hepatitis, and clear the toxic factors such as dampness and pathogenic heat within the body.

3. Jew's ear has a sweet flavor and a neutral nature. Effect: moistening the intestines and eliminating the pathogenic heat, removing heat from the blood and arresting blood. Indications: hemorrhoid, blood urine, blood stool, metrorrnagia and metrostaxis, bleeding due to injury etc.

4. Chinese dates have a sweet flavor and a mild nature. Effect: invigorating the spleen and replenishing Qi, nourishing blood and tranquilizing the mind. Indications: lassitude and weakness, poor appetite and loose stool, blood deficiency syndrome characterized by jaundice, palpitation, etc.

5. Liquor has a sweet, bitter and pungent flavor and a mild nature. Effect: promoting blood circulation, preventing pathogenic cold. Indications: chest and abdominal cold pain, arthralgia due to wind-cold and muscle spasm.

Note:

1. This is the decoction commonly used by women after delivery in Siyi district, Guangdong province.

2. Different people may use different amount of liquor.