Oyster Meat and Albizia Flower Soup，From *Proven Tea, Decoction, and Soup Recipes for Common Ailments*,Nourishes yin and reduces internal heat. Suitable for elderly neurosis characterized by yin deficiency with excessive internal heat.
in those with yin deficiency and yang hyperactivity, excess liver fire, or internal damp-heat, this warming formula may fuel fire and should be avoided; in the absence of frank deficiency, or where an excess or heat pattern prevails, indiscriminate warming tonic use is inadvisable
Commentary
Oyster meat occupies the sovereign position; of cool nature and sweet, salty flavor, entering the Liver, Kidney, it nourishes yin and blood and calms the spirit and becomes the guiding principle of the whole formula. The ministerial support — mimosa flowers (neutral in nature and sweet in flavor, with Heart, Liver tropism, soothes the liver, relieves depression, and calms the spirit), 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, scallions, harmonizing the stomach and supporting dietary nourishment, and cooking wine, acting as the envoy to harmonize the various ingredients, so that potency is moderated and stomach qi protected. Together the herbs converge on this action, in accord with the yin deficiency pattern.