Dang Gui Chicken Soup

Asian Chinese people love to nourish their bodies with medicinal food. Yet, before you supplements, you need to know the situation of your own body. Our body types are divided into Yin and Yang type and the Yin type is sub-divide into weak spirit, weak blood, infirm and nutritionally weak. For eg: In cold season we required warm supplement food, summer and autumn require cool stuffs so we had to select the right supplement at the correct time or else it could backfire.

As women who had menstruation once a month, we had to prepare some tonic soup once or twice in a month after the menstruation as to help building up our body supplements for the lost of blood. So this “Dang Gui, Huai Shan Chicken Soup, 当归淮山鸡汤” is actually recommend by one of my Chinese Physician as she said that:


Dang Gui(当归): It benefits and balances the blood, regulates menses, treats pain and soothes the intestines.

Huai Shan(淮山): Strengthens spleen and supplements lungs, stabilized kidneys and benefits energy, it also improves weak spleen and stomach, weak lungs and long coughing, uplifts the spirit and benefits Qi.

Dang Shen(当参): It supplements energy and benefits sprits, grows saliva ad stops thirst. It also strengthens body and stomach, improves fatigue and tiredness, dry mouth and tongue.

Bei Qi(北耆): It strengthens the heat, promotes urination, lowers blood pressure and boosts the immune system.

Ingredients:
3-4 Chicken Drumsticks, skin removed
1 Medium Size Fresh Huai Shan(淮山)
4 Slices Of DangGui(当归)
6 Red Dates(红枣), seeds removed
3 Pieces Of BiQi(北耆), cut into half
3 Pieces of Dang Shen(当参), cut into half
1 Tablespoon Of QiZi(杞子)

Methods:
1. Wash and removed the skin of the chicken drumstick then blanched in boiling water and rinse well.
2. Wash and peel the skin of the fresh huai shan and cut into about 2” sections.
3. Bring 1.5 litre of water to boil and at the meantime, wash and drained the rest of the herbs.
4. When the water boiled, add in all the ingredients and bring to boil again.
5. You can either transfer to slow cooker and simmer on low heat for about 2 hours or you can simmer on the stove under low heat for 1 hour.

Notes: If you don't have fresh huai shan, you can replaced it with about 5 pieces of dried huai shan.