Five-Red Soup
Ingredients
- Peanuts 30g
- Jujube dates 10 pieces
- Adzuki beans 30g
- Goji berries 8g
- Brown sugar 40g
Principle
Adzuki promotes urination and reduces swelling; peanuts, jujube, goji, and brown sugar tonify qi and nourish blood. The whole formula tonifies qi and blood while draining damp—suited to qi-blood deficiency with water retention.
Effects & uses
Suitable for edema in heart-spleen qi deficiency or heart-blood deficiency with poor complexion and fatigue; also adjunct for postpartum swelling or anemia-related edema (syndrome differentiation required).
Method
- Soak adzuki and peanuts overnight.
- Boil adzuki, jujube, and peanuts, then simmer about 1 hour until adzuki is soft.
- Add goji and cook a few minutes; stir in brown sugar until dissolved.
How to use
- Eat warm in divided doses.
Caution
Not for diabetes (contains brown sugar). Not for damp-heat excess with thick greasy tongue coating. Daily dietary prescription; not a substitute for medication.
Source
Shanghai Municipal Health Commission publication. To be manually verified.