Oyster and Celery Soup，From *Proven Tea, Decoction, and Soup Recipes for Common Ailments*,Calms the liver, lowers blood pressure, nourishes yin, and supplements calcium. Suitable for all types of hypertension, and particularly beneficial for hypertension characterized by yin deficiency and yang hyperactivity.
the warming-tonic action is inadvisable in yin deficiency with fire or internal excess heat
Commentary
The sovereign is oyster meat, cool in nature and sweet, salty in flavor, with Liver, Kidney tropism; it nourishes yin and blood and calms the spirit, anchoring the central strategy of the formula. These are joined ministerially by celery (cool in nature and sweet in flavor, with Liver, Stomach, Bladder tropism, calms the liver, clears heat, and lowers blood pressure), and egg (nature neutral, flavor sweet, channeled into the Lung, Spleen, Stomach, nourishes yin, moistens dryness, calms the fetus, and tonifies deficiency), reinforcing the sovereign’s main effect. Completing the formula, ginger, acting as the envoy to harmonize the various ingredients, so that potency is moderated and stomach qi protected. The combined effect is tailored to the yin deficiency pattern.