Deer Meat Soup

Herbal Tea Name: Deer Meat Soup

Chinese Name: 鹿肉汤

Formula

500 grams of farmed venison, 20 grams of dried lily bulbs, 10 grams of cilantro, and appropriate amounts of oil, cooking wine, scallion segments, ginger slices, soy sauce, salt, sugar, and chicken broth.

Main Ingredients

Efficacy

Nourishes the kidneys and enriches essence. Suitable for all types of low libido.

Usage

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

Commentary

The sovereign is farmed venison, warm in nature and sweet in flavor, with Spleen, Kidney tropism; it tonifies the five viscera, regulates blood, and invigorates kidney yang, anchoring the central strategy of the formula. The ministerial layer, lily bulbs (with slightly cold nature and sweet flavor, having Lung, Heart tropism, nourishes yin, moistens the lung and calms the spirit), and chicken broth (of warm nature and sweet flavor, entering the Spleen, Stomach, tonifies qi, nourishes blood, and warms the middle), lends support that reinforces the sovereign’s main effect. Completing the formula, cilantro, harmonizing the stomach and supporting dietary nourishment, and scallions, harmonizing the stomach and supporting dietary nourishment, and ginger, acting as the envoy to harmonize the various ingredients, so that potency is moderated and stomach qi protected. Viewed as a whole, the formula addresses the kidney yang deficiency presentation, treating both root and branch.

Deer Meat Soup,From *Proven Tea, Decoction, and Soup Recipes for Common Ailments*,Nourishes the kidneys and enriches essence. Suitable for all types of low libido.

given the warm nature, caution is advised if the tongue is red with scant coating or there is tidal fever and night sweats; in the absence of frank deficiency, or where an excess or heat pattern prevails, indiscriminate warming tonic use is inadvisable; the warming-tonic nature is inadvisable during damp-heat, yin deficiency with fire, or episodes of exterior-heat