Carrot and Lamb Soup，From *Proven Tea, Decoction, and Soup Recipes for Common Ailments*,Strengthens the spleen and promotes weight gain. Suitable for simple emaciation.
those who are robust with internal accumulated heat are not suited to this formula; the tonifying-warming action may aggravate internal heat; avoid during feverish or inflammatory episodes
Commentary
Carrots occupies the sovereign position; neutral in nature and sweet in flavor, with Lung, Spleen tropism, it strengthens the spleen, harmonizes the middle, and nourishes the liver and eyes and becomes the guiding principle of the whole formula. The ministerial layer, lamb (warm in nature and sweet in flavor, with Spleen, Kidney, Stomach tropism, warms the middle, tonifies qi, and invigorates kidney yang), and ginger (nature warm, flavor pungent, channeled into the Lung, Spleen, Stomach, disperses cold, relieves cough and harmonizes the stomach), lends support that reinforces the sovereign’s main effect. Finished with scallions, 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 spleen-stomach weakness pattern.