Celery and Red Jujube Soup
Ingredients
- Celery 200–500g (whole plant, roots and leaves retained)
- Red jujubes 60–120g
Principle
Celery is cool in nature, sweet and bitter in taste—clears liver heat, benefits the head and eyes, and promotes urination; red jujube tonifies middle qi, nourishes blood, and calms the spirit. Together they pacify and clear the liver, nourish blood, and quiet the heart. From Family Diet Therapy Manual, a liver-pacifying and blood-nourishing medicated diet.
Effects & uses
Suitable for headache, dizziness, insomnia, irritability, palpitations, fatigue, and poor appetite from yang hyperactivity of the liver, heart-blood insufficiency, or qi-blood deficiency; also used before exams to nourish blood, calm the heart, and soothe the spirit (syndrome differentiation required).
Method
- Wash the whole celery plant (keep roots and leaves); cut into 1-inch sections.
- Wash red jujubes; add to the pot with celery.
- Add adequate water and simmer into soup.
How to use
- Take with meals; drink the soup and eat the jujubes.
Caution
Avoid if allergic to celery or jujube. Those with spleen-stomach deficiency-cold should not eat much celery. Daily dietary food care is not a substitute for medication.
Source
China Medical Information Query Platform (reviewed and certified by National Administration of Traditional Chinese Medicine), from Family Diet Therapy Manual; references Chinese Medicated Dietology and exam-season calming soup materials. To be manually verified.