Chicken Liver and Tomato Soup

Category: Medicinal Soup

Herbal Tea Name: Chicken Liver and Tomato Soup

Chinese Name: 鸡肝番茄汤

Formula

60 grams of chicken liver, 100 grams of tomatoes, 15 grams of rehydrated wood ear mushrooms, and appropriate amounts of cooking wine, oil, chopped scallions, minced ginger, salt, chicken bouillon, and sesame oil

Main Ingredients

Efficacy

Nourishes qi and blood. Suitable for malnutrition caused by deficiency of both qi and blood

Usage

Serve as a soup with meals; consume as desired.

Commentary

At the head stands Chicken liver, the sovereign, warm in nature and sweet in flavor, with Liver, Kidney tropism; it nourishes the liver and kidneys, brightens the eyes, and tonifies blood, underpinning the principal thrust of the decoction. The ministerial support — tomatoes (nature cool, flavor sweet, sour, channeled into the Liver, Stomach, cools blood, generates fluid, and promotes diuresis), and black wood ear mushrooms (of neutral nature and sweet flavor, entering the Stomach, Large Intestine, tonifies qi and blood, moistens the lung, and stops bleeding) — reinforces the sovereign’s main effect and coordinates the drug strength. Finished with scallions, 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 qi-blood presentation, treating both root and branch.

Chicken Liver and Tomato Soup，From *Proven Tea, Decoction, and Soup Recipes for Common Ailments*,Nourishes qi and blood. Suitable for malnutrition caused by deficiency of both qi and blood

those who are robust with internal accumulated heat are not suited to this formula

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