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Chicken Bone Grass and Wormwood Pork Rib Soup
Traditionally used to support liver and gallbladder health and clear damp-heat
In short: Chicken Bone Grass and Wormwood Pork Rib Soup is a soup that Traditionally used to support liver and gallbladder health and clear damp-heat. It is most often made for digestive wellness, cooling & summer heat, liver wellness. Total time about 2 hr 15 min. Key ingredients: honey dates, soybeans, pork ribs.
Why people make this soup
In traditional Chinese wellness thinking, the liver and gallbladder do their most important cleansing work between 11 pm and 3 am — which is one reason staying up very late night after night is considered hard on those organs. Chicken bone grass (ji gu cao) and wormwood (mian yin chen) are two herbs long used in Cantonese cooking to support the liver and gallbladder, ease damp-heat, and help with the kind of dull rib-side discomfort or fatigue people associate with sluggish digestion. Modern studies have also shown both herbs to have notable liver-protective properties. Nourilo pairs them with pork ribs and honey dates to round out the flavour and make the soup approachable for the whole family.
Safety first — read before you cook
This is a traditional food, not a treatment. Please check with your doctor or pharmacist before making it a regular part of your diet if you:
- are pregnant or breastfeeding, or are cooking for a young child;
- take regular medicines — especially blood thinners, blood-pressure, diabetes or immune-suppressing drugs;
- have a kidney, liver or heart condition, or a known food allergy.
Stop eating it and seek advice if you notice an allergic reaction or feel unwell. Safety notes reviewed 8 October 2026 · How we write safety notes
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