Black-Bone Chicken Soup with Two Types of Ginseng，From *Proven Tea, Decoction, and Soup Recipes for Common Ailments*,Tonifies qi and nourishes yin; increases white blood cell count. Suitable for leukopenia caused by deficiency of both qi and yin.
as a warming-tonic formula, it is not for those with excess heat, damp-heat, or unresolved exterior patterns
Commentary
With black-boned chicken as the sovereign, nature neutral, flavor sweet, channeled into the Liver, Kidney, it nourishes the liver and kidneys and supplements qi and blood, and this opening sets the main therapeutic direction. The ministerial support — american ginseng (cool in nature and sweet, slightly bitter in flavor, with Heart, Lung, Kidney tropism, tonifies qi, nourishes yin and clears heat, generates fluids), and taizi ginseng (of neutral nature and sweet, mildly bitter flavor, entering the Spleen, Lung, tonifies qi, generates fluid, and nourishes the lung) — reinforces the sovereign’s main effect and coordinates the drug strength. Viewed as a whole, the formula addresses the qi-yin presentation, treating both root and branch.