Tu Fuling, Zhu Ling and Fu Ling Pork Soup

Why people make this soup

If you find yourself waking up tired even after a full night’s sleep, dealing with persistent oily skin, recurring acne — especially around the mouth and nose — a heavy or foggy feeling in the body, sticky bowel movements, and a generally irritable mood, traditional Chinese medicine would likely describe your constitution as “damp-heat.” This pattern is particularly common in warm, humid climates and in people with stressful lifestyles who eat a lot of fried, rich, or spicy food.

Nourilo designed this soup specifically for damp-heat constitutions. It brings together three related mushrooms and fungi — tu fuling, zhu ling, and fu ling — each associated in Chinese herbalism with resolving dampness and clearing heat, but working on slightly different organ systems. The beans and coix seeds add further heat-clearing, water-regulating support. The result is a soup that is substantial enough to be satisfying, but light and gentle enough to take regularly as a constitutional remedy.