Dried Shrimp and Chrysanthemum Brain Soup，From *Proven Tea, Decoction, and Soup Recipes for Common Ailments*,Clears heat and lowers blood pressure. Suitable for all types of hypertension.
given its cold nature, caution is warranted in the constitutionally deficient and cold with weak transportation; the warming-tonic nature is inadvisable during damp-heat, yin deficiency with fire, or episodes of exterior-heat
Commentary
With dried shrimp as the sovereign, warm in nature and sweet in flavor, with Liver, Kidney tropism, it tonifies kidney yang, supplements essence, and promotes lactation, and this opening sets the main therapeutic direction. The ministerial support — chrysanthemum (cool in nature and sweet, bitter in flavor, with Lung, Liver tropism, disperses wind, clears heat, calms the liver, and brightens the eyes) — reinforces the sovereign’s main effect and coordinates the drug strength. Viewed as a whole, the formula addresses the liver-yang hyperactivity presentation, treating both root and branch.