Ginkgo Nut, Lotus Seed, and Silky-Bone Chicken Soup，From *Proven Tea, Decoction, and Soup Recipes for Common Ailments*,Tonifies qi and stops sweating. Suitable for spontaneous hyperhidrosis caused by qi deficiency.
as a warming-tonic formula, it is not for those with excess heat, damp-heat, or unresolved exterior patterns; some ingredients are mildly toxic; strictly follow the prescribed amounts, avoid long-term use, and exercise caution in children, pregnancy, and the weak; as astringent herbs are present, they should not be used early while external pathogens, damp-heat, or food stagnation remain
Commentary
The formula is led by ginkgo nuts as the sovereign herb; of neutral nature and sweet, bitter, astringent flavor, entering the Lung, Kidney, it chiefly astringes the lung, stops cough and checks leukorrhea and enuresis, striking at the root of the condition. The ministerial layer, lotus seeds (with neutral nature and sweet, astringent flavor, having Spleen, Kidney, Heart tropism, tonifies the spleen, astringes the kidney and calms the spirit), and glutinous rice (warm in nature and sweet in flavor, with Spleen, Stomach, Lung tropism, tonifies qi, warms the middle and stops diarrhea), lends support that reinforces the sovereign’s main effect. Finished with black-boned chicken, rich in blood-and-flesh essence, nourishing the righteous qi, the formula attains a regulated, neither-excess nor-deficient balance. Together the herbs converge on this action, in accord with the qi deficiency pattern.