Seahorse and Young Chicken Soup，From *Proven Tea, Decoction, and Soup Recipes for Common Ailments*,Nourishes the lungs and kidneys; relieves coughing and wheezing. Suitable for chronic pulmonary heart disease caused by lung and kidney qi deficiency.
because it runs warm overall, this decoction is best avoided in yin-deficient, fire-prone constitutions; warming tonics readily stir heat and burden the spleen; caution is advised where dampness-heat or food stagnation accumulates in the middle
Commentary
Seahorse occupies the sovereign position; nature warm, flavor sweet, salty, channeled into the Liver, Kidney, it tonifies kidney yang and enriches essence and becomes the guiding principle of the whole formula. The ministerial support — young rooster (nature warm, flavor sweet, channeled into the Spleen, Stomach, warms yang, tonifies essence, and replenishes marrow) — reinforces the sovereign’s main effect and coordinates the drug strength. Together the herbs converge on this action, in accord with the qi deficiency pattern.