Ingredients: 2 Sydney, 2 Lily and 3 Rock Sugar.

Practice: add water to rock sugar and cook slowly. Soak in clean water for half an hour, then boil in boiling water for three minutes. Take out and drain. Remove the heart from Sydney, wash it and cut it into pieces in batches. Put Sydney, lily and crystal sugar water into a stew pot and stew for about 3 hours.

Efficacy: nourishing yin and moistening lung.

△ Braised carp with sour plum

Ingredients: one carp, five sour plums, one or two pickles and four or two ribs.

Practice: Cut the carp into pieces, fry them in oil pan until golden brown, then splash water with ginger, onion and wine for five minutes, and cook the ribs for five minutes. Carp, ribs, sour plums and pickles are put into a stew pot together, and the cooked grains are added and stewed for about four hours.

Efficacy: Relieve summer heat, quench thirst and eliminate fatigue.

△ Stewed black-bone chicken with Beiqi Angelica

Ingredients: astragalus, angelica, black-bone chicken and ginger.

Practice: Wash the chicken after cutting, put it in boiling water for five minutes, then take it out and wash it. Beiqi, Angelica sinensis, black-bone chicken and ginger are put in a stew pot and boiled for about five hours, and salt is added when eating.

Efficacy: Women with irregular menstruation, leucorrhea and dizziness caused by blood deficiency are most effective. It can also be used as a health care diet.

△ Shen Qiang Yanshou Decoction

Ingredients: Radix Codonopsis, Atractylodis Rhizoma, Poria San Qian, Radix Angelicae Sinensis, Rhizoma Chuanxiong, Radix Rehmanniae Preparata, Radix Paeoniae Alba, Fructus Lycii, Hay, Ginger, 10 red dates, and a squab.

Practice: Boil the squab in boiling water for five minutes, then take it out and wash it. Wrap the medicinal materials in clean gauze, tie them tightly, put them in a stew pot with young pigeons, add appropriate amount of boiling water, stew for about five hours, take out the medicine bag and season with salt.

Efficacy: tonifying kidney, invigorating qi and nourishing blood, strengthening body, prolonging life and rejuvenating.

△ Stewed Pigeon with Codonopsis pilosula and Beiqi

Ingredients: a pigeon, half a catty of Astragalus membranaceus, half a catty of Dang, half a spoonful of wine, half a catty of yam, two ounces of pork and one slice of ginger.

Practice: Boil pigeons in boiling water for five minutes, then take them out and wash them. Boil pork in boiling water for three minutes, then take it out and wash it. Put yam, astragalus root, codonopsis pilosula, ginger and wine into a stew pot, add boiling water, stew for about five hours, and season with salt when eating.

Efficacy: Yiqi Jianpi and stomach.