When summer ends and autumn begins, the period is known as Chu Shu 处署/處署. The Chinese calendar was fixed as early as in the Chunqiu Period 春秋 (770BC-476BC), and it divides the year up into 24 seasons. Chu Shu is…
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I haven’t written a medicinal recipe for some time, so I thought I’d introduce a dish to you for the benefit of the guys. This is a very simple dish, that helps to increase the male libido. Its main ingredient…
The taste of this dish is very light, so light that many might overlook its nutritious value. First of all, amaranth leaves (Xiàn Caì 苋菜) are a detox agent. It is an instant cure for constipation and it aids urination…
Chinese: 龟苓膏/龜苓膏 Guilinggao is an ancient medicinal desert, which hails from the county of Wuzhou 梧州 in Guangxi province in China. Legend has it that during the Era of the Three Kindgoms (AD 220-280), military strategist Zhu Geliang led his…
Scientific name: Amaranthus dubius/Amaranthus mangostanus L. Mandarin Chinese: Xiàn Caì 苋菜/莧菜; Or 青香苋、红苋菜、汉（汗）菜、红菜、野刺苋、米苋、人旱菜，杏菜、莹莹菜、玉米菜、米谷菜、云仙菜 Cantonese Chinese: Yin Choy 莕菜 Minnan Chinese: Heng Tsai 荇菜 English: Red spinach, Chinese spinach Vienamese: Rau Den Thai: Phak Khom ผักโขม Khmer: Ptee Bahasa Melaya: Bayam…
Scientific name: Vigna umbellata Mandarin Chinese: Chi Xiao Dou 赤小豆/飯豆 English: Red rice bean I know I have not been posting for a long time. That is because I have been away, trying to recover from a serious bout of…
This is my first post for the section of medicinal cuisine. Medicinal cuisine (药膳) is a branch of Chinese cuisine, that makes use of medicinal herbs and roots in the preparation of every food: that is to say, to consume these…
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