About this book: Chinese herbalists believe food can be as effective as herbal medicines in terms of healing power and preventive properties. That's why soups made with nourishing herbs help recuperate the body, cure diseases and live long. Renowned Chinese herbalist Chiu Sang included 50 soup recipes in this cookbook. All of them are carefully fomulated by incorporating seasonal produce and beneficial Chinese herbs according to the climatic changes in Autumn and Winter. By following his instruction and serving one pot of soup each week, you and your family could experience the ultimate goodness of Chinese soups

	Contents
2	Foreword
4	Author's Biography
10	FAQs on Tonifications
13	Nature of Food and Therapeutic Diet
15	Tonification Basics
17	Body Predisposition and Therapeutic Diet
20	Sickness and Tonification
22	Common Chinese Medicinal Herbs
32	Soups for Autumn
34	Lean Pork Soup with Figs, Huai Shan and Lotus Seeds
36	Pork Shin Soup with Water Caltrops and Job's Tears
38	Beef Bone Soup with Lotus Roots and Burdock
40	Duck Soup with Chestnuts, Chinese Celery and Red Dates
42	White Fungus Soup with Bracket Fungus and Dried Lily Bulbs
44	Duck Gizzard Soup with Malt and Chinese Marrows
46	Spinach and Fish Head Soup
48	Big-eye Fish Soup with Papaya
50	Snakehead Fish Soup with Ji Gu Cao and Tu Fu Ling
52	Ginseng Chicken Soup
54	Snakehead Fish Soup with Yi Mu Cao and Snow Frog Jelly
56	Lean Pork Soup with Haw, Cao Jue Ming and Red Dates
58	Lean Pork Soup with Day Lily Flowers and Wood Ear Fungus
60	Dried Mussel Soup with Agrocybe Aegerila and Wood Ear Fungus
62	Pueraria Root Soup with Dried Scallops, Red and Mung Beans
64	Lean Pork Soup with Ze Xie, Job's Tears and Sweet Corns
66	Squab Soup with Qi Zi and Dried Longans
68	Papaya Soup with Rou Cong Rong and Tu Si Zi
70	Lean Pork Soup with Du Zhong and Walnuts
72	Chayotes Soup with Rou Cong Rong and Fox Nuts
74	Beef Soup with Nu Zhen Zi and Dried Longans
76	Beef Soup with Shu Di Huang, Black Beans and Dried Burdock
78	Lean Pork Soup with Bu Gu Zhi and Chestnuts
80	Pork Trotter Soup with Dang Gui, Bei Qi and Qi Zi
82	Squab Soup with Cordyceps and Fish Maw
84	Soups for Winter
86	Lean Pork Soup with Dang Shen and Flathead Fish
88	Yellow Eel Soup with Bei Qi and Black Dates
90	Squab Soup with Korean Ginseng and Bei Qi
92	Black-skinned Chicken Soup with Korean Ginseng and Cordyceps
94	Pork Tripe Soup with Bai Zhu and Peppercorns
96	Pork Shin Soup with Tortoise Shell and Fu Ling
98	Fish Maw Soup with Chicken Feet and Lotus Seeds
100	Pork Ribs Soup with Tomatoes, Potatoes and Job's Tears
102	Beef Shin Soup with Huang Jing and Black Dates
104	Lamb Soup with Dang Gui and Beancurd Sticks
106	Beef Shin Soup with Bai Zhu and Fu Ling
108	Pork Shin Soup with Shi Hu and Lotus Seeds
110	Chayotes Soup with Lotus Seeds, Job's Tears and Pork Tripe
112	Quail Soup with Black Beans , Job's Tears and Fox Nuts
114	Duck Soup with Yellow Cucumber, Fox Nuts and Job's Tears
116	Chicken Soup with Sea Coconut and Red Dates
118	Beef Shin Soup with Peppercorns, Star Anise and Radish
120	Lamb Soup with Garlic
122	Lamb Soup with Ba Ji and Qi Zi
124	Deer Tail Soup with Ba Ji and Du Zhong
126	Beef Soup with Walnuts and Qi Zi
128	Deer and Pork Ribs Soup with Sea Cucumber
130	Lamb Soup with Ba Ji, Red Dates and Ginseng
132	Beef Shin Soup with Sea Otters and Seahorses
134	Pork Shin Soup with Cordyceps and Rou Cong Rong
136	Teas for Fall and Winter
138-139	Teas for Fall (Chrysanthemum and Pear Tea / American Ginseng Tea with Honeysuckle and
	Chrysanthemum / Mai Dong Tea with Mulberry Leaves and Chrysanthemum )
140-141	Teas for Winter ( Honeysuckle Tea with Tian Dong and Mai Dong / Nerve Calming Tea / Bracket
	Fungus and Shi Hu Tea)