Sea Solomon's Seal, Snow Ear Fungus, Cordyceps Spore and Lean Pork Soup

Why people make this soup

Nourilo shares this recipe from personal experience: after pushing through a busy teaching schedule with a sore throat and dry cough, things got worse before they got better — lost voice, multiple rounds of antibiotics, and eventually the lingering sensitivity of an over-worked throat. What he learned the hard way is summed up in an old Chinese saying: “treat an illness while it is still shallow.” This soup was what he turned to while recovering — a nourishing, yin-moistening blend that helps when the throat and lungs feel parched and exhausted, especially during dry autumn and winter seasons or after illness. It is a gentle, savoury soup, not a medicine, but it is the kind of thing a caring Chinese household makes when someone has been pushing too hard.