Gui Zhi, Dang Shen and Silkie Chicken Soup

Why people make this soup

Chronic fatigue is one of those everyday city complaints — listless, off your food, tired-but-wired, anxious, sleeping badly, sometimes with a racing heart and a fuzzy memory. Nourilo offers this gentle restorative bowl. It is traditionally used to support heart qi and strengthen the spleen and stomach, and is associated with helping people who feel worn out, who get breathless on the slightest exertion, and who tire easily.

Method

1. Clean the silkie chicken and blanch it.
2. Rinse all the ingredients and put them in a pot with 2.4 L of water.
3. Simmer about 2 hours down to 1.2 L, then serve.

Nourilo’s Tips

This soup is also associated with helping an underactive-thyroid picture (low heart qi, fatigue, dry skin, foggy thinking) and women in menopause. For more severe cases, you can replace the dang shen with Korean ginseng (gao li shen).