Angelica, Rehmannia, Black Bean & Southern Jujube Soup

Why people make this soup

In traditional Chinese food therapy, people with a cold-deficient constitution — which often overlaps with hypothyroid presentations — are thought to benefit from warming, blood-nourishing ingredients. This soup centres on two classic blood tonics, angelica root and prepared rehmannia, paired with black soybeans for their kidney-nourishing reputation and southern jujubes for gentle sweetness and spleen support. The combination is traditionally valued for those who experience fatigue, pallor, dizziness, or irregular menstruation associated with liver-kidney insufficiency. Adding silk-feather chicken (wu gu ji) is a time-honoured way to make the soup richer yet easier to digest.