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

Practice: add water to rock sugar and boil it slowly. Soak in clean water for half an hour, then boil in boiling water for three minutes. Take it out and drain it. Remove the heart from Sydney, wash it and cut it into pieces in batches. Put Sydney, lily and rock 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, fry it in oil pan until golden brown, then splash water with ginger, onion and wine for five minutes, and cook the ribs for five minutes. Put carp, ribs, sour plums and pickles together in a saucepan, add cooked grains and stew for about four hours.

Efficacy: relieving summer heat, quenching thirst and relieving fatigue.

△ Beiqi Angelica Stewed Black-bone Chicken

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

Practice: Wash the chicken after cutting, put it in boiling water for five minutes, then remove it and wash it. Put Beiqi, Angelica sinensis, Black-bone chicken and ginger into a stew pot and cook for about five hours, adding salt when eating.

Efficacy: Women with irregular menstruation, leucorrhea and dizziness caused by blood deficiency are most effective. It can also be used as a healthy 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 add salt to taste.

Efficacy: tonify kidney, replenish qi and nourish blood, strengthen body and prolong life.

△ Stewed Pigeon with Codonopsis pilosula and Beiqi

Ingredients: a pigeon, half a catty of Radix Astragali, half a catty of Radix Codonopsis, half a tablespoon of wine, half a catty of Chinese yam, two ounces of pork and a 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: invigorating qi and strengthening spleen and stomach.