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Yakuzen (Medicinal Dishes) – Part II
Sam Gye Tang (chicken and ginseng soup) Asians have always considered food to be medicine and categorized it according to its properties as they do to medicinal herbs. For example, chickens have a Warm nature and a propensity for Spleen … Continue reading
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Yakuzen (Medicinal Dishes) – Part I
Around this time of the year in Japan, when people are exhausted from the heat and humidity, we traditionally eat roasted eels. It is believed that eels provide vitality that is needed to recover from the heat exhaustion. I am … Continue reading
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Tagged appetite, Chinese Yams, digestive, herb, medicinal dish, porridge, Qi, Shan Yao, tonic, yakuzen, Yama Imo
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