making soup with old hens generally speaking, people prefer fresh and tender chickens to old hens. However, from the effect of expelling wind, replenishing blood and invigorating qi, the older the hen is, the better the effect of expelling wind and replenishing qi and blood is. Old hen soup is a traditional soup for tonifying the body and benefiting qi in China, which is effective and will not cause other adverse reactions due to improper tonic. Take it 8-1 times and your body will recover quickly. However, according to the theory of traditional Chinese medicine, chickens are warm and should not be used for malaria, indigestion, headache, red eyes, irritability or acute fever, so as to avoid adding fuel to the fire, aggravating the condition and damaging health. Ingredients: an old hen, with hair and internal organs removed. Ginger is one piece (about one or two). Corresponding Chinese herbal medicines. Practice: put the cleaned old hen into proper amount of water, add ginger and Chinese herbal medicines, boil over high fire, simmer for more than 3 hours, skim off the oil slick on the noodle soup, and add salt to taste. It seems simple to pay attention to this soup, but different herbs need to be replaced according to the different needs of mothers. First of all, there is great stress on the selection of ginger: for postpartum dispelling wind and enriching blood, old ginger must be added, and 1 red dates and 2 grams of medlar must be added. Those who are weak and cold should be served with tender ginger, plus 1 red dates and 2 grams of codonopsis pilosula. Usually, the constitution is hot or the latter is acute. Do not add ginger, but mix it with Polygonatum odoratum. Yin deficiency and lung heat can be matched with Cordyceps sinensis stew.