Two-Bean Tofu Soup，From *Proven Tea, Decoction, and Soup Recipes for Common Ailments*,Clears heat and detoxifies; cools the body and reduces inflammation. Suitable for mumps
given its cold nature, caution is warranted in the constitutionally deficient and cold with weak transportation; the cold, heat-clearing herbs suggest caution in those with spleen-stomach deficiency-cold or loose stools
Commentary
The sovereign is tofu, with cool nature and sweet flavor, having Spleen, Stomach, Large Intestine tropism; it tonifies qi, harmonizes the stomach, generates fluid, and clears heat, anchoring the central strategy of the formula. The ministerial support — mung beans (nature cold, flavor sweet, channeled into the Heart, Stomach, clears heat and removes toxins), and salted olives (with neutral nature and sweet, sour flavor, having Lung, Stomach tropism, clears heat and benefits the throat) — reinforces the sovereign’s main effect and coordinates the drug strength. Together the herbs converge on this action, in accord with the wind-heat toxin pattern.