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One of the things I like to talk to my patients about is combining herbs, medicinal herbs,
into the food. And so, we can actually make one of my favorite recipes, called eight treasures
soup, or eight treasures kanji. We can either take these eight ingredients and put them
in with our favorite chicken soup recipe, or we can make a traditional kanji like I
have got here. And, eat that as a nice, healthy, sustaining meal. Eight treasures is designed
to be eight grams, and there is a magical reason for using the number eight of different
herbs and foods that tonify both our chi and our blood. So, we are going to use eight of
Douzou dates, which are these here. Eight grams of Long Yan Rou, Longan fruit. Eight
grams of Bishou, white peony. Eight grams of Donquai, a very famous blood tonic. So,
those are all herbs can help to tonify our blood. Now, we are going to tonify our chi
some. And, so we have got some biju, also known as atractylodes. Shanyou, which is a
type of a yam. Huang chi, which some people know as astragalus. I always make jokes about
being tongue depressors. And, one of my favorites tan shen, also known as Coreopsis that we
use sometimes as ginseng. We put all of these in our pot. We can add in about a cup of rice,
and then cover it all with about eight to ten glasses of water. And, we end up with
this. If we want to add a little color to it, we can add some goji berries or gojisa
as we know it. We can either add them in in the beginning, into our pot, or into our bowl
of rice after the fact.