Ingredients: 100 grams of chicken, 10 grams of red ginseng (for example, 12 grams of edge ginseng; 8 grams of Jilin ginseng; 6 grams of Korean ginseng).

Preparation method: Remove the feathers from the chicken, remove the chicken legs or breasts, remove the skin and bones; put the ginseng slices into the stew pot together with the chicken, add an appropriate amount of water, cover the stew pot, and simmer. Stew in water for 3 hours, season, drink soup and eat meat.

Efficacy: Tonify vitality, solidify and absorb blood.

Indications: Severe loss of vitality and weak body; or weak heart qi, palpitations, sweating, and asthma when symptoms occur; or bleeding that does not stop, blood loss and qi. In modern times, it is used for hemorrhagic shock and heart failure; it can also be used as a decoction for general physical weakness.

Any dietary prescription that can warm and replenish the human body's yang energy and is used to treat yang deficiency syndrome is called a yang-tonifying dietary therapy. Yang deficiency syndromes include kidney yang deficiency, spleen yang deficiency, and heart yang deficiency. Since the yang in the kidney is the foundation of human yang and plays a warming and biochemical role in all organs and tissues of the body, other yang deficiencies are often related to insufficient kidney yang. Deficiency of kidney yang is commonly seen as pain in the waist and knees, weakness in the lower limbs, aversion to cold, residual drainage after drowning, frequent urination, impotence and premature ejaculation in men, and cold uterus in women.