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TRT's Life Nourishment: Black Sesame Sweet Soup with Poria

2020-10-19

WOMEN’S HEALTH (女士保健)

Family and work lives increasingly influence contemporary women. It can easily result in a lack of physical activity and health harmonization, leading to qi and blood deficiency, cold hands and feet, paleness and other ailments. Chinese medicine practitioners consider these symptoms as a consequence of cold stagnation in the body, yang deficiency in the kidney, qi stagnation and blood stasis which can induce poor blood circulation and women's health issues such as menstrual pain and disorders. It is therefore important for women to replenish vital energy for blood and the uterus so as to treat the organs, meridian and blood deficiency.

 

Black Sesame Sweet Soup with Poria (茯苓黑芝麻糖水)

Invigorate qi and blood, restore liver and kidney. Suitable for recuperating after menstruation.

 

 

 

Ingredients:

5 Walnuts, Black sesame seeds 1 tbsp, Red beans 2 tbsp, 6 Red dates, Black rice 2 tbsp, 4 pieces of Poria, Brown sugar (Q.S.)

 

Method:

1. Soak the red beans and black rice in water for 2 hours.

2. Soak the walnuts, black sesame seeds, red dates and poria in water for 1 hour.

3. Place all of the ingredients in a soup pot, add water to boil, turn to low heat, and cook for 1.5 hours.

4. Stir the soup from time to time and cook it to the desired consistency, remove the poria.

5. Add brown sugar to taste.

 

This sweet soup has a laxative effect. It is not suitable for people suffering from diarrhoea.