Bell Pepper and Kelp Soup

Category: Medicinal Soup

Herbal Tea Name: Bell Pepper and Kelp Soup

Chinese Name: 甜椒海带丝汤

Formula

150 grams of kelp (soaked in water), 150 grams of bell pepper, and salt, chicken bouillon, brown sugar, soy sauce, minced garlic, minced ginger, and sesame oil to taste.

Main Ingredients

Efficacy

Resolves phlegm and disperses nodules. Suitable for simple goiter.

Usage

Serve the soup as an accompaniment to a meal; enjoy as desired.

Commentary

Bell pepper occupies the sovereign position; nature warm, flavor pungent, channeled into the Spleen, Stomach, it warms the middle, dissipates cold, and opens the appetite and becomes the guiding principle of the whole formula. The ministerial support — kelp (cold in nature and salty in flavor, with Liver, Stomach, Kidney tropism, softens hardness, disperses nodules, resolves phlegm, and promotes diuresis), and ginger (nature warm, flavor pungent, channeled into the Lung, Spleen, Stomach, disperses cold, relieves cough and harmonizes the stomach) — reinforces the sovereign’s main effect and coordinates the drug strength. Completing the formula, minced garlic, harmonizing the stomach and supporting dietary nourishment, and brown sugar, 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 qi stagnation with phlegm pattern.

Bell Pepper and Kelp Soup，From *Proven Tea, Decoction, and Soup Recipes for Common Ailments*,Resolves phlegm and disperses nodules. Suitable for simple goiter.

the cold, heat-clearing herbs suggest caution in those with spleen-stomach deficiency-cold or loose stools

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