Zhang Zhongjing’s black plum soup recipe includes 2 liang of black plum meat, 6 qian of asarum, 1 liang of dried ginger, 1 liang of 6 qian of coptis, 4 qian of angelica root, 6 qian of cassia twig, 6 qian of ginseng, and aconite (made by ) six qian, yellow cypress six qian, Sichuan pepper (eyes removed) four qian or more and ten flavors, and the golden weight weighs 8 taels and four qian.

1. Ingredients: Prepare the medicine according to the prescription, weigh and prepare it, and put the black plum meat alone.

2. Crushing and mixing: Roll the nine flavors including Asarum into coarse powder. Another 10 liang of rice vinegar is used to soak the black plum meat for 24 hours, heat and steam it until the vinegar is absorbed, take it out, crush it with coarse powder, dry it in the sun or at low temperature, roll it into fine powder, and mix it well and pass through 80 to 100 mesh fine mesh. The loss rate is about 5.

3. Pill making: Take refined honey [10 taels per medicinal powder, approximately 10 taels of refined honey (110℃), honey temperature is 100C when mixing medicine] and the medicinal powder, stir evenly to form a moist mass. Divide lumps, roll into strips, and make pills. One ingredient of medicine is used to make approximately 160 pills per qian, with a tolerance of ±2.

Zhang Zhongjing (about 150-154 AD - about 215-219 AD), named Zhongjing, was a famous medical scientist in the late Eastern Han Dynasty and was revered as the "Sage of Medicine" by later generations. Zhang Zhongjing collected medical prescriptions extensively and wrote the masterpiece "Treatise on Febrile and Miscellaneous Diseases" which has been handed down from generation to generation. The principle of "syndrome differentiation and treatment" established by it is the basic clinical principle of traditional Chinese medicine and the soul of traditional Chinese medicine.