Chinese Yam, Fritillaria and Dried Crocodile Meat Soup

Why people make this soup

In Chinese tradition, wheezing is sorted into “excess” and “deficiency” patterns — and within deficiency, lung-weak and kidney-weak types. Nourilo offers this slow-simmered yam, fritillaria and dried crocodile meat soup for the deficiency type: when the breathing is short, the cough lingers, the phlegm is thin, clear and white, and the voice is low and faint. It is traditionally valued for nourishing three organ systems at once — lung, spleen and kidney.

Method

1. Rinse and soak all the ingredients in clean water.
2. Put everything in a pot with 2.4 L of water and simmer about 3 hours, down to 0.9–1.2 L. Serve.

Nourilo’s Tips

Dried crocodile meat is traditionally regarded as a good food for the lung and kidney and a help with wheezing. Adding one partridge to the pot makes it even better. This soup is also associated with easing bronchial spasm.