Burdock, Old Cucumber and Dried Duck Gizzard Soup

Why people make this soup

After a string of meals out — too much MSG-heavy food, perhaps — Nourilo found his throat going dry and uncomfortable, though not yet truly inflamed or painful. So he went straight out for some yin-nourishing, heat-clearing ingredients to simmer a corrective soup. As he says, heading trouble off early always beats treating it once you’re sick. This burdock, old cucumber and dried duck gizzard soup is traditionally used to nourish yin, clear heat, moisten the lungs and ease the throat.