Ginseng Puree

Ingredients: Korean ginseng (four liang; remove green shoots and cut up), prepared mandarin orange peel (one liang; remove the white), purple perilla leaves (two liang), crude granulated sugar (one jin).

Steps: [For] ingredients use two dou of water. Boil down to one dou. Remove the dregs. Let clear. Drink when one likes.

Effects: It accords the qi, opens the diaphragm, controls thirst and brings forth saliva.

Bream Soup

Ingredients: Large bream (one; young and fresh; wash clean and cut up into strips), Jinese flower pepper (two qian; make a fine powder), tsaoko cardamom (one qian; make a fine powder).

Steps: [For] ingredients use three onion bulbs. Cook. When done add the five spices. Eat on an empty stomach.

Effects: It cures recto-anal fistula, fresh blood-stool, and chronic blood in the stool.

Cup Steamed

Ingredients: Sheep’s back skin from which the hair has been removed, or mutton (three legs; bone and cut up), tsaoko cardamoms (five), lesser galangal (two qian), prepared mandarin orange peel (two qian; remove the white), Chinese flower pepper [“lesser pepper;” Zanthoxylum sp] (two qian).

Steps: [Take] ingredients and fry54 together with one jin of almond paste, two he of pine pollen [juice], and two he of juice of sprouting ginger. Adjust flavors evenly with onions, salt and spices [five spices]. Put into a liquor cup and steam until tender. When cooked eat with long rolled bread.

Effects: It supplements the center, and increases qi.

Three in the Cooking Pot

Ingredients: Mutton (leg; bone and cut up), tsaoko cardamoms (five), lesser galangal (two qian).

Steps: Boil ingredients together into a soup. Strain [broth]. Use “meat pellets” [made from] the “meat pill” of the rear hoof of a sheep, “nail–headed Qizi,” “mutton jis–kebabi food” and one liang black pepper. Adjust flavors with salt and vinegar.

Effects: It supplements the center, and increases qi.

Eggplant Manta

Ingredients: Mutton, sheep’s fat, sheep’s tail, onions, prepared mandarin orange peel (cut up each finely), “tender” eggplant (remove the pith).

Steps: [For] combine ingredients with meats into a stuffing. But [instead of making a dough covering] put it inside the eggplant [skin] and steam. Add garlic, cream [or yogurt etc.], finely ground mint [or basil]. Eat.

Cherry Concentrate

Ingredients: Cherries (50 jin; take the juice), white granulated sugar (24 jin; refine).

Steps: Boil ingredients together and make a concentrate.

Chinese Matrimony Vine Fruit Tea

Ingredients:  Chinese matrimony vine fruits, water

Steps: [Take] five dou of Chinese matrimony vine fruits and scour in water to clean. Remove the floating chaff, dry over a fire. Use a white cloth tube to clean the fruits and remove the stems, calyxes, and black material. Choose only red and ripe fruits. First use Sparrow Tongue Tea to cleanse a stone roller. Do not use young tea buds. Then roll the matrimony vine fruit and make a fine powder. Use each day, on an empty stomach. Use a spoonful. Add liquid butter and mix evenly. Dissolve in warmed liquor. Boiling water can also be used. (Avoid eating it together with cream)

Effects: Nourish the Yin of the liver and kidneys, treating insufficient essence and blood.