Thursday, February 18, 2010
Symptoms:
Enlarged or swollen thyroid gland.
Ingredients:
60 g fresh oyster
18 g alga (dried)
15 g kelp (dried)
1,5 l water
salt and oil according to your taste
How to prepare the soup:
Wash oyster well. Soak alga and kelp for few minutes in water. When it’s soft cut on small pieces. Put everything in a pot, add water and bring it to boil. Continue boiling until you are left with only 600 ml of water. Add salt and oil at the end.
How to use it:
Eat one bowl per day. Prepare fresh soup each day and continue doing so for 7-10 days. If the symptoms are not gone, continue for another 7-10 days and so on.
What to pay attention to:
In the days when you are eating the soup don’t consume licorice or licorice root.
Wednesday, February 17, 2010
Symptoms:
Catching a cold because of other reasons than being cold (for example sitting under the heater,…), bad eyesight (if it’s getting worse), night blindness.
Ingredients:
120 g pig liver
100 g goji berries leaves
6 pieces of candied date/jujube
1 teaspoon of cooking starch
500 ml water
salt and oil according to your taste
How to prepare the soup:
Wash pig liver and cut it on slices, spread cooking starch on them and mix a little. Wash goji berries leaves. Put liver, goji berries leaves and candied dates in a pot and add water. Bring it to boil and turn off. Add a little salt and oil.
How to use it:
Eat one bowl once a day. Prepare each day and continue eating for 7 days.
Tuesday, February 16, 2010
Symptoms:
Asthma, coughing because having problems with lungs.
Ingredients:
1 pig lung
9 g aster
60 g dried cabbage
6 pieces of candied date/jujube
12 g almonds
2 l water
1 teaspoon of salt
How to prepare the soup:
Wash pig lung well, cut it on pieces, squeeze all water out. Wash cabbage and cut it on pieces. Put the lung and cabbage in a pot, add water, aster, candied dates and almonds. Bring it to boil on big fire. When starting boiling continue boiling on small fire for 4 hours. At the end add salt.
How to use it:
Eat one bowl once a day. Prepare and eat often.
When NOT to use the soup:
If you are coughing because of catching a cold, if your excrement is very liquid.
Monday, February 15, 2010
Symptoms:
Headache from catching a cold, feeling cold, having fever, painful extremities, stuffed nose, running nose (like water).
Ingredients:
6 g lovage
6 g red tea leaves
1 teaspoon of brown sugar
800 ml water
How to prepare the soup:
Put lovage and tea leaves in a pot, add water and bring it to boil. Continue boiling until there is only 500ml of water left. Remove lovage and tea leaves (you don’t need them any more), add sugar and mix well.
How to use it:
Prepare and drink hot once a day until you feel well.
What to pay attention to :
Don’t drink on empty stomach or cold.
When NOT to use the soup:
If your headache is caused by other reasons than catching a cold, if you feel dizzy, if you can’t sleep or having insomnia.
Sunday, February 14, 2010
Symptoms:
Cracky voice, coughing, headache, stuffed nose, feeling cold, having fever.
Ingredients:
200 g daikon
20 g ginger
How to prepare the soup:
Wash daikon and ginger and squeeze them into a juice.
How to use it:
Prepare and drink once to twice a day.
What to pay attention to :
When drink this juice don’t eat carrot, ginseng, cucumber.
Saturday, February 13, 2010
Symptoms:
Catching a cold in winter time, stuffed nose, feeling cold, having a fever, no sweating.
Ingredients:
10 g ginger
15 g brown sugar
200 ml water
How to prepare the soup:
Wash the ginger, peel the skin off, cut ginger on small pieces (like threads). Put it in a teapot. Boil water, pour it over ginger and cover. After 5 minutes add sugar and mix well.
How to use it:
Prepare twice to three times a day and drink hot. Continue drinking until you feel well (without the symptoms).
What to pay attention to :
After you drink dress warmly or wrap yourself in blankets, so that you will sweat.
When NOT to use the soup:
If you catch a cold because of other reasons then being cold.
Friday, February 12, 2010
Symptoms:
Cathing a cold in winter time, feeling cold, having a fever, no sweating, headache, pain in extremities (arms and legs), stuffed nose, can’t breathe through nose, running nose (like water), itchy throat, coughing.
Ingredients:
3 g ginger
3 g perilla (follum perillae)
10-15 g brown sugar
200 ml water
How to prepare the soup:
Wash the ginger, peel the skin off, cut ginger on small pieces (like threads). Then wash perilla leaves and wait few minutes that the water from the leaves dries off. Put ginger and perilla in a teapot. Add boiled water and cover the teapot. Leave it for 5-10 minutes then add brown sugar and mix well.
How to use it:
Prepare twice to three times a day and drink hot. Continue drinking until you feel well (without the symptoms).
When NOT to use the soup:
If you catch a cold because of other reasons then being cold, if you are sweating, if you feel debile (debility).
Thursday, February 11, 2010
Symptoms:
Catching a cold and vomiting, feeling cold, having fever, headache, diarrhea.
Ingredients:
10 g parsnip
5 slices of ginger (fresh)
2-3 stalks of white part of chives
50-100g white rice
1500 ml water
How to prepare the soup:
Wash parsnip, ginger and white part of chives, put everything in a pot, add water and bring it to boil. Put on small fire and continue boiling for 30 minutes. After that separate the water from the rest (you don’t need the rest), add rice to the water and continue boiling until the rice is soft (overcooked), so that it’s turned into a porridge.
How to use it:
Eat once to twice a day hot. Continue eating for three days.
When NOT to use the soup:
If you catch a cold and vomiting because of other reason that being cold. If you have bitter taste or bad smell in your mouth.
Wednesday, February 10, 2010
Symptoms:
Joint pain (pain in joints) – when the pain is moving, for example in the morning the elbow joints hurt, in the afternoon knees or wrists or ankles. So just when the pain in joints is moving, not if you have a constant pain in one joint. Also when having difficulties and pain when moving the joints.
Ingredients:
30 g white parts of chives
10 g preserved black beans
100 g white rice
water
How to prepare the soup:
Wash chives, beans and rice, put everything in a pot, add water and cook until the rice is very soft (overcooked) so that the porridge is done. When is done, remove the chives and use the rest.
How to use it:
Eat twice a day hot. Continue eating for seven days. If you still have symptoms after seven days, continue doing so for another seven days.
What to pay attention to :
When eating take care that you stay warm.
When NOT to use the soup:
If joints are swollen and red and when having constant pain in certain joint.
Tuesday, February 9, 2010
Symptoms:
Stomach ache because of the cold, not feeling good in stomach when eating or drinking cold.
Ingredients:
3-5 g ginger
5-7 stalks of white part of chives (together with roots)
1-2 g dried mandarin skin
5-10 g membranes of chicken gizzards
50-100g white rice
10-15ml vinegar (best is rice vinegar)
1,5 l water
How to prepare the soup:
Wash mandarin skin and membranes of chicken gizzards and put everything in a pot. Add 1,5l of cold water. Bring it to boil and continue boiling until 1/3 of water evaporates, so that you are left with 1l of water. Remove mandarin skin and membranes of chicken gizzards from the water. Put rice and ginger in the same water and bring it to boil again. When it starts boiling add chives. Continue boiling until the rice is very soft and overcooked, so that you get the porridge. When is done, add vinegar and turn of when it starts boiling again.
How to use it:
Eat hot on empty stomach 1 to 2 times per day. Continue eating for five to seven days.
When NOT to use the soup:
If you have a bitter taste in your mouth or bad small, or if you have very hard excrement.