Motherwort and Black-Bone Chicken Soup，From *Proven Tea, Decoction, and Soup Recipes for Common Ailments*,Nourishes the liver and kidneys. Suitable for post-stroke sequelae caused by liver and kidney deficiency.
those who are robust with internal accumulated heat are not suited to this formula; with herbs that quicken the blood, caution is warranted in those with a tendency to bleed or bruise easily; as a warming-tonic formula, it is not for those with excess heat, damp-heat, or unresolved exterior patterns
Commentary
With motherwort as the sovereign, with slightly cold nature and bitter, pungent flavor, having Liver, Heart, Bladder tropism, it activates blood, regulates menstruation, promotes urination and removes toxins, and this opening sets the main therapeutic direction. These are joined ministerially by black-boned chicken (nature neutral, flavor sweet, channeled into the Liver, Kidney, nourishes the liver and kidneys and supplements qi and blood), and ginger (warm in nature and pungent in flavor, with Lung, Spleen, Stomach tropism, disperses cold, relieves cough and harmonizes the stomach), reinforcing the sovereign’s main effect. Finished with scallions, harmonizing the stomach and supporting dietary nourishment, and cooking wine, acting as the envoy to harmonize the various ingredients, the formula attains a regulated, neither-excess nor-deficient balance. The combined effect is tailored to the kidney deficiency pattern.