Butterfly Sea Cucumber Soup，From *Proven Tea, Decoction, and Soup Recipes for Common Ailments*,Warms and tonifies kidney yang. Suitable for various types of infertility.
the whole decoction leans warm; use with caution in those with yin deficiency and internal heat or lingering excess heat; those who are robust with internal accumulated heat are not suited to this formula; warming tonics readily stir heat and burden the spleen; caution is advised where dampness-heat or food stagnation accumulates in the middle; the formula is somewhat cloying; avoid overuse in those with spleen deficiency and dampness, poor appetite, or abdominal distension
Commentary
The sovereign is sea cucumber, of warm nature and salty flavor, entering the Kidney, Heart; it tonifies the kidney, enriches essence and moistens dryness, anchoring the central strategy of the formula. The ministerial layer, egg (with neutral nature and sweet flavor, having Lung, Spleen, Stomach tropism, nourishes yin, moistens dryness, calms the fetus, and tonifies deficiency), and ham (warm in nature and sweet, salty in flavor, with Spleen, Stomach, Kidney tropism, tonifies qi and blood and invigorates the spleen), lends support that reinforces the sovereign’s main effect. Finished with cooked shrimp, rich in blood-and-flesh essence, nourishing the righteous qi, and snow pea shoots, harmonizing the stomach and supporting dietary nourishment, and ginger, acting as the envoy to harmonize the various ingredients, the formula attains a regulated, neither-excess nor-deficient balance. Viewed as a whole, the formula addresses the kidney deficiency presentation, treating both root and branch.