recipes.json

[
    {
        "recipe_name": "Sprouting Chinese Foxglove Chicken",
        "category": "Dish",
        "ingredients": [
            "and black chicken",
            "sweetmeats",
            "Sprouting Chinese foxglove"
        ],
        "effects": [
            "occasional vomiting and dysentery",
            "night sweating and lack of appetite",
            "heaviness of body and qi shortage",
            "inability to stand upright for long periods",
            "deficiency and injury of bone and marrow",
            "treats pain of the back and loins"
        ],
        "steps": "[Of the] ingredients first take the chicken, pluck, remove the giblets and clean. Cut up finely. Combine the Chinese foxglove and the sugar together evenly. Put the mixture inside the intestinal cavity of the chicken. Put it into a copper pot. Then put the copper pot into a cauldron and steam. When the dish has been cooked completely, remove the chicken and eat. Do not use salt or vinegar. Eat the meat. When it is gone also drink the broth.",
        "method": [
            "Steam"
        ],
        "effect_category": [
            "Musculoskeletal Issues",
            "General Health and Wellness"
        ]
    },
    {
        "recipe_name": "Lamb Honey Paste",
        "category": "Paste",
        "ingredients": [
            "juice of sprouting Chinese foxglove",
            "juice of sprouting ginger",
            "crystallized honey",
            "cooked sheep’s marrow",
            "Cooked sheep’s fat"
        ],
        "effects": [
            "hectic fever due to yin deficiency",
            "withered lung",
            "coughing",
            "waist pain (lumbago)",
            "treats xulao diseases"
        ],
        "steps": "[Of] ingredients, first decoct the sheep’s fat and bring to a boil. Then add the sheep’s marrow. Bring to a boil again, then add the honey and [sprouting] Chinese foxglove and sprouting ginger juice. Stir constantly. Slowly simmer and bring repeatedly to a boil over a small fire to make a paste. Take a spoonful dissolved in warm liquor every day on an empty stomach. Or make it into a soup or a congee and eat it. This is also acceptable.",
        "method": [
            "Pan-fry",
            "Simmer"
        ],
        "effect_category": [
            "General Health and Wellness",
            "Musculoskeletal Issues",
            "Respiratory Issues"
        ]
    },
    {
        "recipe_name": "Sheep Entrails Gruel",
        "category": "Thick soup",
        "ingredients": [
            "lesser galangal",
            "prepared mandarin orange peel",
            "salted fruits",
            "long pepper",
            "black pepper",
            "cow’s [milk] cheese",
            "heart and lung",
            "kidney",
            "stomach",
            "Sheep’s liver"
        ],
        "effects": [
            "damage to bone and marrow",
            "treats consumptive disease damage to the kidney"
        ],
        "steps": "[Of] ingredients, first take the sheep entrails and boil slowly until done over a slow fire. Take the juice and strain clean. Combine with sheep entrails [other than the stomach] and herbs, and stuff everything into the sheep’s belly. Sew up the opening. Put into a thin silk bag. Boil again. When done add five spices. Eat regularly as desired.",
        "method": [
            "Boil"
        ],
        "effect_category": [
            "Gastrointestinal Issues",
            "General Health and Wellness"
        ]
    },
    {
        "recipe_name": "Sheep Bone Congee",
        "category": "Conge",
        "ingredients": [
            "salt",
            "fresh ginger",
            "tsaoko cardamom",
            "lesser galangal",
            "prepared mandarin orange peel",
            "Sheep’s bones"
        ],
        "effects": [
            "treats xulao diseases and debility of waist and knee"
        ],
        "steps": "Decoct ingredients into a juice over a slow fire in three dou [of water]. Strain. When the liquid has cleared, make a congee in the conventional way. It is also possible to make a soup from the bones.",
        "method": [
            "Simmer"
        ],
        "effect_category": [
            "General Health and Wellness",
            "Musculoskeletal Issues"
        ]
    },
    {
        "recipe_name": "Sheep’s Spine Gruel",
        "category": "Conge",
        "ingredients": [
            "long pepper",
            "tsaoko cardamom",
            "broomrape",
            "Sheep’s spine"
        ],
        "effects": [
            "damage to waist and kidney",
            "treats a condition of chronic lower burner primordial qi deficiency"
        ],
        "steps": "Boil ingredients in water into a juice. Filter and remove the dregs. Add spring onions, and five spices. Make a flour gruel. Eat.",
        "method": [
            "Simmer"
        ],
        "effect_category": [
            "General Health and Wellness",
            "Gastrointestinal Issues"
        ]
    },
    {
        "recipe_name": "White Sheep Kidney Gruel",
        "category": "Thick soup",
        "ingredients": [
            "tsaoko cardamom",
            "long pepper",
            "prepared mandarin orange peel",
            "black pepper",
            "sheep’s fat",
            "broomrape",
            "White sheep’s kidney"
        ],
        "effects": [
            "debility of waist and knee",
            "degeneration of the yang ways",
            "treats xulao diseases"
        ],
        "steps": "Combine ingredients. Add spring onions, salt and sauce, and boil into a soup. Add flour qizi. Make into a gruel in the normal way and eat.",
        "method": [
            "Boil"
        ],
        "effect_category": [
            "General Health and Wellness",
            "Others",
            "Musculoskeletal Issues"
        ]
    },
    {
        "recipe_name": "Pig Kidney Congee",
        "category": "Conge",
        "ingredients": [
            "grain-of-paradise",
            "prepared mandarin orange peel",
            "tsaoko cardamom",
            "non-glutinous rice",
            "Pig kidney"
        ],
        "effects": [
            "debility and ache of waist and knee",
            "cures kidney xulao damage"
        ],
        "steps": "[Of] ingredients, first take the pig kidney, the prepared mandarin orange peel etc. and boil to make a juice. Strain and remove the dregs. Add a small amount of liquor. Then add the rice to make a congee. Eat on an empty stomach.",
        "method": [
            "Boil"
        ],
        "effect_category": [
            "Gastrointestinal Issues",
            "Musculoskeletal Issues",
            "Others"
        ]
    },
    {
        "recipe_name": "Chinese Matrimony Vine Fruit and Sheep’s Kidney Congee",
        "category": "Conge",
        "ingredients": [
            "mutton",
            "spring onions",
            "sheep’s kidney",
            "Chinese matrimony vine fruits"
        ],
        "effects": [
            "the five kinds of impairments and the seven wounds",
            "ache of waist and foot",
            "cures yang qi degeneration"
        ],
        "steps": "Combine four ingredients evenly. Add the five spices and boil down into a juice. Add rice and decoct into a congee. Eat on an empty stomach.",
        "method": [
            "Simmer",
            "Boil"
        ],
        "effect_category": [
            "Heat-clearing",
            "Musculoskeletal Issues",
            "General Health and Wellness"
        ]
    },
    {
        "recipe_name": "Deer’s Kidney Gruel",
        "category": "Thick soup",
        "ingredients": [
            "Deer’s kidney"
        ],
        "effects": [
            "cures kidney deficiency and deafness"
        ],
        "steps": "Surround ingredient with fermented black beans. Add three he of non-glutinous rice and boil [into a] congee. A gruel could also be made. Add the five spices. Eat on an empty stomach.",
        "method": [
            "Boil"
        ],
        "effect_category": [
            "Gastrointestinal Issues",
            "Others"
        ]
    },
    {
        "recipe_name": "Mutton Gruel",
        "category": "Meat",
        "ingredients": [
            "spring onions",
            "black pepper",
            "long pepper",
            "lesser galangal",
            "prepared mandarin orange peel",
            "tsaoko cardamom",
            "Chinese radish",
            "Mutton"
        ],
        "effects": [
            "cures kidney deficiency failing and debility of waist and foot"
        ],
        "steps": "Boil ingredients in water to make a juice. Add salt and sauce and boil into a broth. Add wheat flour qizi. Eat. It can also be eaten by taking clear soup and making into a congee.",
        "method": [
            "Simmer"
        ],
        "effect_category": [
            "Gastrointestinal Issues",
            "Musculoskeletal Issues"
        ]
    },
    {
        "recipe_name": "Deer Feet Soup",
        "category": "Soup",
        "ingredients": [
            "tsaoko cardamom",
            "prepared mandarin orange peel",
            "Deer feet"
        ],
        "effects": [
            "ache of waist and foot and inability to walk",
            "cures the various wind deficiencies"
        ],
        "steps": "Boil ingredients until thoroughly cooked. Take the meat and add the five spices. Eat on an empty stomach.",
        "method": [
            "Boil"
        ],
        "effect_category": [
            "Neurological and Mental Health",
            "General Health and Wellness",
            "Musculoskeletal Issues"
        ]
    },
    {
        "recipe_name": "Deer Horn Liquor",
        "category": "Dish",
        "ingredients": [
            "Deer horn"
        ],
        "effects": [
            "cures lumbago pain due to strain and acute back spasm"
        ],
        "steps": "Soak ingredient in liquor for two nights. Drink on an empty stomach. It is effective immediately.",
        "method": [],
        "effect_category": [
            "Musculoskeletal Issues"
        ]
    },
    {
        "recipe_name": "Black Ox Marrow Decoction",
        "category": "Pan-fry",
        "ingredients": [
            "crystallized honey",
            "juice of sprouting Chinese foxglove",
            "Black ox marrow"
        ],
        "effects": [
            "bone damage and fatigue from wasting",
            "cures kidney asthenia"
        ],
        "steps": "Combine three ingredients. Decoct into a paste. Dissolve in liquor and take on an empty stomach.",
        "method": [
            "Pan-fry"
        ],
        "effect_category": [
            "Gastrointestinal Issues",
            "General Health and Wellness"
        ]
    },
    {
        "recipe_name": "Fox Meat Soup",
        "category": "Meat",
        "ingredients": [
            "kasni",
            "lesser galangal",
            "prepared mandarin orange peel",
            "onions",
            "grain-of-paradise",
            "tsaoko cardamom",
            "Fox meat"
        ],
        "effects": [
            "cures asthenia and evil qi of the five viscera"
        ],
        "steps": "Boil ingredients in one dou of water until done. Remove the tsaoko cardamom, etc. Then add two qian of black pepper, one qian of turmeric, vinegar and the five spices. Flavor evenly. Eat on an empty stomach.",
        "method": [
            "Boil"
        ],
        "effect_category": [
            "General Health and Wellness"
        ]
    },
    {
        "recipe_name": "Black Chicken Soup",
        "category": "Soup",
        "ingredients": [
            "tsaoko cardamom",
            "black pepper",
            "lesser galangal",
            "prepared mandarin orange peel",
            "Black chicken"
        ],
        "effects": [
            "evil qi of chest and abdomen",
            "cures asthenia internal impairment caused by overstrain"
        ],
        "steps": "Combine ingredients with onions, vinegar, and sauce and put into a jug. Seal the mouth. Let boil until done. Eat on an empty stomach.",
        "method": [
            "Boil"
        ],
        "effect_category": [
            "General Health and Wellness",
            "Gastrointestinal Issues"
        ]
    },
    {
        "recipe_name": "Ghee Liquor",
        "category": "Dish",
        "ingredients": [
            "Ghee"
        ],
        "effects": [
            "cures asthenia and removes wind-wetness"
        ],
        "steps": "Mix ingredient with a cup of liquor and drink warm. It is proven effective.",
        "method": [],
        "effect_category": [
            "General Health and Wellness",
            "Neurological and Mental Health"
        ]
    },
    {
        "recipe_name": "Chinese Yam Tuo",
        "category": "Dish",
        "ingredients": [
            "Chinese yams",
            "grain-of-paradise",
            "black pepper",
            "lesser galangal",
            "prepared mandarin orange peel",
            "tsaoko cardamom",
            "spring onions",
            "Chinese radish",
            "Sheep’s bone"
        ],
        "effects": [
            "damage to bone and marrow",
            "cold ache of chest and abdomen",
            "the five kinds of impairments and the seven kinds of wounds",
            "cures the various deficiencies"
        ],
        "steps": "Boil ingredients together and take the juice. Clarify. Strain and remove the gross parts. Cook two jin of flour and two jin of Chinese yams. When done grind up into a mash. Apply flour to make the tuo. Add the five spices and eat on an empty stomach.",
        "method": [
            "Boil"
        ],
        "effect_category": [
            "General Health and Wellness",
            "Gastrointestinal Issues"
        ]
    },
    {
        "recipe_name": "Chinese Yam Congee",
        "category": "Conge",
        "ingredients": [
            "Chinese yams",
            "Mutton"
        ],
        "effects": [
            "chronic chill of hectic fever due to yin-deficiency",
            "cures xulao diseases"
        ],
        "steps": "Add three he of rice to meat broth containing ingredients. Boil into a congee. Take on an empty stomach.",
        "method": [
            "Boil"
        ],
        "effect_category": [
            "General Health and Wellness",
            "Musculoskeletal Issues"
        ]
    },
    {
        "recipe_name": "Sour Jujube Congee",
        "category": "Conge",
        "ingredients": [
            "Sour jujubes"
        ],
        "effects": [
            "vexation and insomnia",
            "cures asthenia of the viscera"
        ],
        "steps": "Use water for ingredient, twist [in a bag] and obtain the juice. Add three he of rice. Boil into a congee. Take on an empty stomach.",
        "method": [
            "Boil"
        ],
        "effect_category": [
            "General Health and Wellness"
        ]
    },
    {
        "recipe_name": "Sprouting Chinese Foxglove Congee",
        "category": "Conge",
        "ingredients": [
            "Juice of sprouting Chinese foxglove",
            "sour jujubes",
            "Sprouting Chinese foxglove juice"
        ],
        "effects": [
            "coughing up of blood",
            "alternating episodes of chills and fevers",
            "hectic fever",
            "cures xulao disease wasting away",
            "vexation causing insomnia",
            "gradual emaciation",
            "general fatigue",
            "cures asthenia of hectic fever due to yin-deficiency"
        ],
        "steps": "Decoct ingredients together by boiling in water. Bring to a boil several times. Then add three he of rice. Cook into a congee. Take on an empty stomach.",
        "method": [
            "Boil",
            "Simmer",
            "Boil"
        ],
        "effect_category": [
            "General Health and Wellness",
            "Musculoskeletal Issues",
            "Others",
            "Respiratory Issues"
        ]
    },
    {
        "recipe_name": "Chinese Flower Pepper Dough Gruel",
        "category": "Noodles",
        "ingredients": [
            "flour",
            "Chinese flower pepper"
        ],
        "effects": [
            "vomiting and inability to keep down food",
            "pain of chest and abdomen stagnation",
            "chronic chill qi",
            "cures asthenia of spleen and stomach"
        ],
        "steps": "Mix ingredients together uniformly. Add a little salt. Make flour dough strips on fermented black beans.63 Boil into a Gruel and eat.",
        "method": [
            "Boil"
        ],
        "effect_category": [
            "Gastrointestinal Issues"
        ]
    },
    {
        "recipe_name": "Long Pepper Congee",
        "category": "Conge",
        "ingredients": [
            "cassia",
            "black pepper",
            "Long pepper"
        ],
        "effects": [
            "inability to eat due to obstructed listlessness",
            "intense chill-qi pain of chest and abdomen",
            "cures asthenia of spleen and stomach"
        ],
        "steps": "Make a fine powder of ingredients. Use three qian for each three large cups of water. Add half a he of fermented black beans. Boil together until cooked. Remove the dregs. Add three he of rice and make a congee. Eat on an empty stomach.",
        "method": [
            "Boil"
        ],
        "effect_category": [
            "Gastrointestinal Issues"
        ]
    },
    {
        "recipe_name": "Lesser Galangal Congee",
        "category": "Conge",
        "ingredients": [
            "non-glutinous rice",
            "Lesser galangal"
        ],
        "effects": [
            "abdominal mass indigestion",
            "cures chill pain of chest and abdomen"
        ],
        "steps": "[For] ingredient [i.e., the galangal] use three large cups of water. Boil the lesser galangal down to two cups. Remove the dregs. Add the rice, boil into a congee and eat. It is of proven efficacy.",
        "method": [
            "Pan-fry",
            "Boil"
        ],
        "effect_category": [
            "Gastrointestinal Issues"
        ]
    },
    {
        "recipe_name": "Evodia Fruit Congee",
        "category": "Conge",
        "ingredients": [
            "Evodia fruits"
        ],
        "effects": [
            "cures chilled qi perversity of chest and abdomen"
        ],
        "steps": "Make ingredient into a congee with three he of rice. Eat on an empty stomach.",
        "method": [],
        "effect_category": [
            "Gastrointestinal Issues"
        ]
    },
    {
        "recipe_name": "Dried Beef",
        "category": "Meat",
        "ingredients": [
            "lesser galangal",
            "grain-of-paradise",
            "tsaoko cardamom",
            "prepared mandarin orange peel",
            "long pepper",
            "black pepper",
            "Beef"
        ],
        "effects": [
            "compulsive drinking and eating",
            "cures chronic chill of spleen and stomach"
        ],
        "steps": "Make a fine powder of ingredients. Combine evenly with the meat, five ho of sprouting ginger juice, one he of onion juice, four liang of salt. Let sit for two days, remove meat and dry over a fire until dried. Eat as desired.",
        "method": [
            "Braise",
            "Bake"
        ],
        "effect_category": [
            "Gastrointestinal Issues"
        ]
    },
    {
        "recipe_name": "Lotus Seed Congee",
        "category": "Conge",
        "ingredients": [
            "Lotus seeds"
        ],
        "effects": [
            "cures disrepose of heart and will supplements the center and strengthens the will makes ear and eye quick and sharp"
        ],
        "steps": "Cook ingredient. When done grind up into a paste-like substance. Make a congee with three he of non-glutinous rice. Eat on an empty stomach.",
        "method": [
            "Boil"
        ],
        "effect_category": [
            "General Health and Wellness",
            "Others"
        ]
    },
    {
        "recipe_name": "Euryale Fruits Congee",
        "category": "Conge",
        "ingredients": [
            "Euryale fruits"
        ],
        "effects": [
            "cures insufficiency of primary vitality qi strengthens the will makes sharp ear and eye"
        ],
        "steps": "Cook ingredients. When done grind up into a paste-like substance. Boil into a congee with one he of non-glutinous rice. Eat.",
        "method": [
            "Boil"
        ],
        "effect_category": [
            "Musculoskeletal Issues",
            "General Health and Wellness",
            "Others"
        ]
    },
    {
        "recipe_name": "Euryale Fruits Gruel Powder",
        "category": "Rice noodles",
        "ingredients": [
            "sheep’s spine",
            "Euryale fruits"
        ],
        "effects": [
            "violent illnesses increases primary vitality qi and strengthens heart and will makes ear and eye quick and sharp",
            "pain of waist and knee gets rid of sudden",
            "cures arthralgia chiefly caused by wetness-evil"
        ],
        "steps": "[For] ingredient use one he of juice of sprouting ginger. Add the five spices. Flavor evenly. Eat on an empty stomach.",
        "method": [],
        "effect_category": [
            "Others",
            "Musculoskeletal Issues",
            "General Health and Wellness"
        ]
    },
    {
        "recipe_name": "Peach Seed Congee",
        "category": "Conge",
        "ingredients": [
            "Peach seeds"
        ],
        "effects": [
            "rapid respiration",
            "obstruction filling up of the diaphragm",
            "abnormal-rising-of-lung-qi-cough",
            "cures pain of chest and abdomen"
        ],
        "steps": "Take the juice of the ingredient, combine with non-glutinous rice and make into congee. Eat on an empty stomach.",
        "method": [
            "Boil"
        ],
        "effect_category": [
            "Gastrointestinal Issues",
            "Respiratory Issues"
        ]
    },
    {
        "recipe_name": "Bream Gruel",
        "category": "Thick soup",
        "ingredients": [
            "long pepper",
            "grain-of-paradise",
            "prepared mandarin orange peel",
            "Chinese flower pepper",
            "black pepper",
            "large garlic",
            "Large bream"
        ],
        "effects": [
            "leaking diarrhea from which one does not recover for a long time if is eaten there is immediate effect",
            "cures asthenia of spleen and stomach"
        ],
        "steps": "[Of] ingredients put onions, sauce, salt, spices, and garlic into the intestinal cavity of the fish and decoct. When done make a gruel. [Add] the five spices. Flavor evenly. Eat on an empty stomach.",
        "method": [
            "Boil",
            "Pan-fry"
        ],
        "effect_category": [
            "Gastrointestinal Issues"
        ]
    },
    {
        "recipe_name": "Roasted Yellow Flour",
        "category": "Noodles",
        "ingredients": [
            "White flour"
        ],
        "effects": [
            "cures leaking diarrhea and looseness of intestine and stomach"
        ],
        "steps": "Each day take a spoonful of ingredient mixed with warm water on an empty stomach.",
        "method": [],
        "effect_category": [
            "Gastrointestinal Issues"
        ]
    },
    {
        "recipe_name": "Cheese Flour",
        "category": "Pancake",
        "ingredients": [
            "Cheese"
        ],
        "effects": [
            "reddish and whitish leaking diarrhea",
            "cures asthenia of spleen and stomach"
        ],
        "steps": "Mix ingredient with flour and cook. When done eat on an empty stomach.",
        "method": [
            "Boil"
        ],
        "effect_category": [
            "Gastrointestinal Issues"
        ]
    },
    {
        "recipe_name": "Broiled Yellow Chicken",
        "category": "Dish",
        "ingredients": [
            "Yellow hen"
        ],
        "effects": [
            "cures asthenia-weakness of spleen and stomach diarrhea"
        ],
        "steps": "[Of] ingredients, combine together evenly: salt, sauce, vinegar, fennel, fine Chinese flower pepper powder. Brush onto the chicken. Roast until dry and scorched on coals. Eat on an empty stomach.",
        "method": [
            "Broil"
        ],
        "effect_category": [
            "Gastrointestinal Issues"
        ]
    },
    {
        "recipe_name": "Method for Cow’s Milk Decocted Long Pepper",
        "category": "Pan-fry",
        "ingredients": [],
        "effects": [],
        "steps": "During the Zhenguan period [of Tang, 627-50], Taizong [r. 627- 50] was suffering from dysentery. The various doctors were una- ble to treat it successfully. The emperor asked his courtiers [sayng] that whoever could cure the disease would be heavily rewarded. At that time there was a gentlemen with special ability who advanced this method. He employed cow’s milk to decoct long pepper. The emperor took it. It was immediately beneficial.",
        "method": [],
        "effect_category": [
            "Gastrointestinal Issues"
        ]
    },
    {
        "recipe_name": "Chinese Badger Meat Gruel",
        "category": "Meat",
        "ingredients": [
            "tsaoko cardamoms",
            "onions",
            "Chinese badger meat"
        ],
        "effects": [
            "difficulty in urination",
            "abdominal distension",
            "surface qi syndrome",
            "cures edema"
        ],
        "steps": "Cook ingredients together using Chinese flower pepper and fermented black beans. When overcooked add one he of non-glutinous rice and make a gruel. Flavor evenly with the five spices. Take on an empty stomach.",
        "method": [
            "Boil"
        ],
        "effect_category": [
            "Genitourinary Issues",
            "Others",
            "Gastrointestinal Issues"
        ]
    },
    {
        "recipe_name": "Yellow Hen",
        "category": "Dish",
        "ingredients": [
            "adzuki beans [“Red Small Beans”]",
            "tsaoko cardamom",
            "Yellow hen"
        ],
        "effects": [
            "cures abdomen water indigestion and edema"
        ],
        "steps": "Cook ingredients together. When done eat on an empty stomach.",
        "method": [
            "Boil"
        ],
        "effect_category": [
            "Gastrointestinal Issues",
            "Genitourinary Issues"
        ]
    },
    {
        "recipe_name": "Green[-headed] Duck [Male Mallard] Gruel",
        "category": "Thick soup",
        "ingredients": [
            "tsaoko cardamoms",
            "Green-headed duck"
        ],
        "effects": [
            "cures the ten water swelling illnesses from which one does not recover"
        ],
        "steps": "[For] ingredient put half a sheng of adzuki beans into the intestinal cavity of the duck. Cook. When done flavor with the five spices. Eat on an empty stomach.",
        "method": [
            "Boil"
        ],
        "effect_category": [
            "Genitourinary Issues"
        ]
    },
    {
        "recipe_name": "Chinese Radish Congee",
        "category": "Conge",
        "ingredients": [
            "Large Chinese radish"
        ],
        "effects": [
            "scorched tongue and dry mouth and frequent urination",
            "cures diabetes"
        ],
        "steps": "[As] ingredients take three he of non-glutinous rice and water and combine with the juice. Boil into a congee. Eat.",
        "method": [
            "Boil"
        ],
        "effect_category": [
            "Gastrointestinal Issues"
        ]
    },
    {
        "recipe_name": "Pheasant Gruel",
        "category": "Thick soup",
        "ingredients": [
            "Pheasant"
        ],
        "effects": [
            "cures diabetes and dry mouth and frequent urination"
        ],
        "steps": "[To] ingredient add the five spices according to the normal method. Make a gruel-meat broth. Eat.",
        "method": [],
        "effect_category": [
            "Gastrointestinal Issues"
        ]
    },
    {
        "recipe_name": "Pigeon Gruel",
        "category": "Thick soup",
        "ingredients": [
            "White pigeon"
        ],
        "effects": [
            "cures diabetes and excessive drinking of water"
        ],
        "steps": "Cook ingredient with *tosu[n] [fat, grease]. When done eat on an empty stomach.",
        "method": [
            "Boil"
        ],
        "effect_category": [
            "Gastrointestinal Issues",
            "Others"
        ]
    },
    {
        "recipe_name": "Egg Yolk",
        "category": "Dish",
        "ingredients": [
            "Egg yolk"
        ],
        "effects": [
            "cures urine that does not pass"
        ],
        "steps": "Take ingredient. Do not take more than three times. It can also be eaten cooked.",
        "method": [],
        "effect_category": [
            "Gastrointestinal Issues"
        ]
    },
    {
        "recipe_name": "Chinese Mallow Gruel",
        "category": "Thick soup",
        "ingredients": [
            "Mallow leaves"
        ],
        "effects": [
            "cures urine which is retained and does not pass"
        ],
        "steps": "Boil ingredient into a gruel. Add the five spices. Eat on an empty stomach.",
        "method": [
            "Stir-fry",
            "Simmer",
            "Boil"
        ],
        "effect_category": [
            "Gastrointestinal Issues",
            "General Health and Wellness",
            "Others"
        ]
    },
    {
        "recipe_name": "Carp Soup",
        "category": "Soup",
        "ingredients": [
            "finely ground Chinese flower pepper",
            "Large young carp",
            "tsaoko cardamom",
            "Chinese flower pepper",
            "prepared mandarin orange peel",
            "adzuki beans",
            "Large carp"
        ],
        "effects": [
            "pacifies the womb if a person is ill with chronic abdominal mass he should not eat it",
            "stops thirst",
            "treats jaundice",
            "jaundice and [evil] foot qi",
            "cures diabetes and edema"
        ],
        "steps": "[To] ingredients add the five spices and flavor evenly. Cook. When done eat on an empty stomach.",
        "method": [
            "Braise",
            "Boil"
        ],
        "effect_category": [
            "Gastrointestinal Issues",
            "Genitourinary Issues",
            "Others"
        ]
    },
    {
        "recipe_name": "Purslane [Portulaca oleracea] Congee",
        "category": "Conge",
        "ingredients": [
            "Purslane"
        ],
        "effects": [
            "dripping discharge of urine",
            "swelling of chest and abdomen",
            "edema of head and face",
            "cures [evil] foot qi"
        ],
        "steps": "Boil ingredient into a congee combined with non-glutinous rice. Eat on an empty stomach.",
        "method": [
            "Boil"
        ],
        "effect_category": [
            "Others",
            "Gastrointestinal Issues"
        ]
    },
    {
        "recipe_name": "Wheat Congee",
        "category": "Conge",
        "ingredients": [
            "Wheat"
        ],
        "effects": [
            "cures diabetes and dry mouth"
        ],
        "steps": "Boil ingredient into a congee. It can perhaps also be steamed as cooked food. Eat it on an empty stomach.",
        "method": [
            "Boil"
        ],
        "effect_category": [
            "Gastrointestinal Issues"
        ]
    },
    {
        "recipe_name": "Donkey’s Head Gruel",
        "category": "Thick soup",
        "ingredients": [
            "tsaoko cardamom",
            "black pepper",
            "Black donkey’s head"
        ],
        "effects": [
            "trouble in speaking",
            "annoying pain of extremities",
            "debility of hand and foot",
            "cures apoplexy-vertigo"
        ],
        "steps": "Cook ingredients until overcooked. Add the five spices in fermented black bean juice. Flavor with the spices. Flavor evenly. Eat on an empty stomach.",
        "method": [
            "Boil"
        ],
        "effect_category": [
            "Neurological and Mental Health",
            "Musculoskeletal Issues"
        ]
    },
    {
        "recipe_name": "Donkey’s Meat Soup",
        "category": "Meat",
        "ingredients": [
            "Meat of a black donkey"
        ],
        "effects": [
            "cures wind mania and depression and pacifies heart qi"
        ],
        "steps": "Cook ingredient until overcooked in fermented black beans. When done add the five spices. Eat on an empty stomach.",
        "method": [
            "Boil"
        ],
        "effect_category": [
            "Neurological and Mental Health",
            "Others"
        ]
    },
    {
        "recipe_name": "Fox Meat Gruel",
        "category": "Meat",
        "ingredients": [
            "Fox meat"
        ],
        "effects": [
            "inappropriate [unmeasured] singing and laughing",
            "indistinct speech",
            "spiritual confusion",
            "cures infantile convulsion epilepsy"
        ],
        "steps": "[To] ingredient add the five spices according to regular method. Cook until overcooked. When done eat on an empty stomach.",
        "method": [
            "Boil"
        ],
        "effect_category": [
            "Neurological and Mental Health"
        ]
    },
    {
        "recipe_name": "Bear Meat Gruel",
        "category": "Meat",
        "ingredients": [
            "Bear meat"
        ],
        "effects": [
            "five-flaccidities tendon and muscle spasms",
            "[evil] foot qi numbness-insensitivity",
            "cures the various winds"
        ],
        "steps": "[To] ingredient add the five spices [to the bear meat] in fermented black beans. [Add] onions and sauce. Cook. When done eat on an empty stomach.",
        "method": [
            "Boil"
        ],
        "effect_category": [
            "Neurological and Mental Health",
            "Others"
        ]
    },
    {
        "recipe_name": "Black Chicken Liquor",
        "category": "Dish",
        "ingredients": [
            "Black hen"
        ],
        "effects": [
            "fever accompanied by restlessness",
            "rigidity of the pupil of the eye",
            "paralysis and inability to speak",
            "cures apoplexy"
        ],
        "steps": "Cook with ingredient five sheng of liquor. Take [reduce to] two sheng of liquor. Remove the dregs. Divide into three doses. Take one after the other. If the juice is exhausted and there is no time [to make more], decoct a gruel of green onions and sprouting ginger, and add it [to what is left]. Again take the juice.",
        "method": [
            "Simmer",
            "Boil"
        ],
        "effect_category": [
            "Neurological and Mental Health",
            "Musculoskeletal Issues",
            "Others",
            "Heat-clearing"
        ]
    },
    {
        "recipe_name": "Sheep’s Stomach Gruel",
        "category": "Thick soup",
        "ingredients": [
            "sprouting ginger",
            "Chinese flower pepper [Sichuan Pepper]",
            "salted fruits",
            "green onions",
            "non-glutinous rice",
            "Sheep’s stomach"
        ],
        "effects": [
            "cures the various apoplexies"
        ],
        "steps": "Combine six ingredients evenly and put inside the sheep’s stomach. Cook until overcooked. When done, flavor with the five spices. Eat on an empty stomach.",
        "method": [
            "Boil"
        ],
        "effect_category": [
            "Neurological and Mental Health"
        ]
    },
    {
        "recipe_name": "Kudzu Starch Gruel",
        "category": "Rice noodles",
        "ingredients": [
            "salted fruits",
            "Schizonepeta tenuifolia herb",
            "Kudzu starch"
        ],
        "effects": [
            "hand and foot which do not obey",
            "mental confusion",
            "indistinct speech",
            "wind-heat of heart and spleen",
            "cures apoplexy"
        ],
        "steps": "[Of] the three ingredients, first use water to boil the S. tenuifolia herb and the salted fruits. Bring to a boil six or seven times. Remove the dregs and take the juice. Then take the kudzu starch and make large rope noodles. Cook in the juice. When done, eat on an empty stomach.",
        "method": [
            "Boil"
        ],
        "effect_category": [
            "Neurological and Mental Health",
            "Gastrointestinal Issues",
            "General Health and Wellness",
            "Musculoskeletal Issues"
        ]
    },
    {
        "recipe_name": "Schizonepeta tenuifolia Congee",
        "category": "Conge",
        "ingredients": [
            "white millet seeds",
            "salted fruits",
            "field mint leaves",
            "S. tenuifolia herb"
        ],
        "effects": [
            "mental confusion and deviation of mouth and face",
            "indistinct speech",
            "cures apoplexy"
        ],
        "steps": "Use four sheng of water [for] ingredients and cook down to three sheng. Remove the dregs. Add the grain and boil into a congee. Eat on an empty stomach.",
        "method": [
            "Boil"
        ],
        "effect_category": [
            "Neurological and Mental Health",
            "General Health and Wellness",
            "Others"
        ]
    },
    {
        "recipe_name": "Hemp Seed Congee",
        "category": "Conge",
        "ingredients": [
            "Schizonepeta tenuifolia herb",
            "field mint leaves",
            "white millet grains",
            "Hemp seeds [Cannabis sativa]"
        ],
        "effects": [
            "obstruction of the large intestine",
            "hand and foot which do not obey",
            "indistinct speech",
            "wind-heat of the five viscera",
            "cures apoplexy"
        ],
        "steps": "[Of] ingredients, boil the field mint and S. tenuifolia herb in three sheng of water. Remove the dregs and take the juice. Add the hemp seed piths and boil everything together into a congee. Eat on an empty stomach.",
        "method": [
            "Boil"
        ],
        "effect_category": [
            "Neurological and Mental Health",
            "Speech-related",
            "Musculoskeletal Issues",
            "Gastrointestinal Issues"
        ]
    },
    {
        "recipe_name": "Burdock. (This is niupangzi. Another name is shuzhan zi.)",
        "category": "Dish",
        "ingredients": [
            "liquid butter",
            "Burdock [Arctium lappa] leaves"
        ],
        "effects": [
            "hand and foot which do not obey as well as skin herpes",
            "mouth dryness due to dryness-heat evil",
            "cures apoplexy"
        ],
        "steps": "[For] ingredients use broth to boil three to five sheng of Burdock leaves. Remove and after washing with fresh water, squeeze in a cloth to get the juice. Add the five spices and a little liquid butter and eat.",
        "method": [
            "Boil"
        ],
        "effect_category": [
            "Neurological and Mental Health",
            "Gastrointestinal Issues",
            "Musculoskeletal Issues",
            "General Health and Wellness"
        ]
    },
    {
        "recipe_name": "Black Donkey Skin Soup",
        "category": "Soup",
        "ingredients": [
            "Black donkey’s skin"
        ],
        "effects": [
            "deviation of eye and mouth",
            "heart dryness-evil",
            "joint irritation pain",
            "hand and foot which do not obey",
            "cures apoplexy"
        ],
        "steps": "Steam ingredient. When cooked cut up finely into lengthwise strips. Add the five spices in fermented black bean juice. Flavor evenly. After cooking, eat on an empty stomach.",
        "method": [
            "Steam",
            "Boil"
        ],
        "effect_category": [
            "Neurological and Mental Health",
            "Musculoskeletal Issues",
            "Others"
        ]
    },
    {
        "recipe_name": "Sheep’s Head Hash",
        "category": "Dish",
        "ingredients": [
            "White sheep’s head"
        ],
        "effects": [
            "debility of hand and foot",
            "emaciation",
            "vertigo",
            "this cures apoplexy"
        ],
        "steps": "Steam ingredient until overcooked. When done cut up finely. Use five spices juice. Flavor hash evenly. Eat on an empty stomach.",
        "method": [
            "Steam"
        ],
        "effect_category": [
            "Neurological and Mental Health",
            "General Health and Wellness",
            "Musculoskeletal Issues"
        ]
    },
    {
        "recipe_name": "Wild Pig Meat Broth",
        "category": "Dish",
        "ingredients": [
            "Wild pig meat"
        ],
        "effects": [
            "bleeding which will not stop and rectum swelling",
            "bleeding piles",
            "cures recto-anal fistula"
        ],
        "steps": "Cook ingredient until overcooked. When done add the five spices. Eat on an empty stomach.",
        "method": [
            "Boil"
        ],
        "effect_category": [
            "Gastrointestinal Issues"
        ]
    },
    {
        "recipe_name": "Otter Liver Gruel",
        "category": "Thick soup",
        "ingredients": [
            "Otter liver"
        ],
        "effects": [
            "cures recto-anal fistula"
        ],
        "steps": "Cook ingredient. When done add five spices. Eat on an empty stomach.",
        "method": [
            "Boil"
        ],
        "effect_category": [
            "Gastrointestinal Issues"
        ]
    },
    {
        "recipe_name": "Bream Soup",
        "category": "Thick soup",
        "ingredients": [
            "tsaoko cardamom",
            "Jinese flower pepper",
            "Large bream"
        ],
        "effects": [
            "chronic blood in the stool",
            "fresh blood-stool",
            "cures recto-anal fistula"
        ],
        "steps": "[For] ingredients use three onion bulbs. Cook. When done add the five spices. Eat on an empty stomach.",
        "method": [],
        "effect_category": [
            "Gastrointestinal Issues"
        ]
    },
    {
        "recipe_name": "Cassia Syrup",
        "category": "Thick liquid",
        "ingredients": [
            "crystallized honey",
            "malted wheat",
            "apricot kernels",
            "finely ground yeast",
            "cassia",
            "red China root",
            "boiled water",
            "Sprouting ginger"
        ],
        "effects": [
            "harmonizes the center eliminates dampness and expels retention of fluid",
            "augments qi",
            "produces saliva and stops thirst"
        ],
        "steps": "[For] ingredients, use the aforementioned medicinals, the honey and the water and combine together evenly. Put into a clean crockery pot. Close up the mouth with several layers of oiled paper and seal well with mud. [Allow to ferment, when fermentation is finished] leave for three days in an ice cellar and it will be ready. [To drink] strain with floss silk. Put the [strained] slush into water. Drink during the hot months.",
        "method": [],
        "effect_category": [
            "Gastrointestinal Issues",
            "General Health and Wellness",
            "Others"
        ]
    },
    {
        "recipe_name": "Cassia-Garuwood Syrup",
        "category": "Thick liquid",
        "ingredients": [
            "granulated sugar",
            "black Chinese apricots",
            "garuwood",
            "Purple perilla leaves [Perilla frutescens var. crispa]"
        ],
        "effects": [
            "controls thirst and accords qi",
            "eliminates dampness and expels retention of fluid brings forth saliva"
        ],
        "steps": "[For] the four ingredients use five or six bowls of water. Boil down to three bowls. Strain and remove the dregs. Add one sheng of Cassia Syrup. Combine into a syrup and drink.",
        "method": [
            "Simmer"
        ],
        "effect_category": [
            "Others",
            "Gastrointestinal Issues",
            "General Health and Wellness"
        ]
    },
    {
        "recipe_name": "Lichee Paste",
        "category": "Paste",
        "ingredients": [
            "cooked honey",
            "juice of sprouting ginger",
            "musk deer musk",
            "crude granulated sugar",
            "cassia",
            "Black Chinese apricots"
        ],
        "effects": [
            "controls thirst and gets rid of irritation",
            "brings forth saliva"
        ],
        "steps": "[For] ingredients [i.e., black Chinese apricots and cassia] use one dou, five sheng of water. Boil down to half. Strain, remove dregs. Add the crude granulated sugar, and the juice of sprouting ginger. Boil again and get rid of the sediment. After it has become clear and settled for a short time, add the musk deer musk and mix together evenly. Allow to settle completely. Drink on a regular basis as desired.",
        "method": [
            "Simmer"
        ],
        "effect_category": [
            "Gastrointestinal Issues",
            "Others"
        ]
    },
    {
        "recipe_name": "Oriental Flowering Apricot [Prunus mume] Pellet",
        "category": "Dish",
        "ingredients": [
            "musk deer musk",
            "sandalwood",
            "liquorice",
            "purple perilla leaves",
            "dried Chinese quinces",
            "salted oriental flowering apricots",
            "Black [i.e. fresh] oriental flowering apricots"
        ],
        "effects": [
            "gets rid of dampness",
            "brings forth saliva and controls thirst counteracts and transforms liquor poisons"
        ],
        "steps": "Make a fine powder of ingredients. Add the musk deer musk and combine evenly. [Use] crude granulated sugar and make into a pellet as large as a crossbow pellet. Whenever one consumes a pellet, let dissolve in the mouth.",
        "method": [],
        "effect_category": [
            "Gastrointestinal Issues",
            "Others"
        ]
    },
    {
        "recipe_name": "Red Currant Puree (Drink in Place of Grape Wine)",
        "category": "Soup",
        "ingredients": [
            "crude granulated sugar",
            "ginseng",
            "purple perilla leaves",
            "Red currants [“northern schisandra”]"
        ],
        "effects": [
            "brings forth saliva and controls thirst warms the essence and augments qi"
        ],
        "steps": "[For] ingredients use two dou of water. Boil down to one dou. Strain and remove dregs. Let clear. Drink when one likes.",
        "method": [
            "Simmer"
        ],
        "effect_category": [
            "Gastrointestinal Issues"
        ]
    },
    {
        "recipe_name": "Ginseng Puree (Drink in Place of Liquor)",
        "category": "Soup",
        "ingredients": [
            "crude granulated sugar",
            "purple perilla leaves",
            "prepared mandarin orange peel",
            "Korean ginseng"
        ],
        "effects": [
            "opens the diaphragm",
            "accords the qi"
        ],
        "steps": "[For] ingredients use two dou of water. Boil down to one dou. Remove the dregs. Let clear. Drink when one likes.",
        "method": [
            "Simmer"
        ],
        "effect_category": [
            "General Health and Wellness",
            "Respiratory Issues",
            "Gastrointestinal Issues"
        ]
    },
    {
        "recipe_name": "Immortal’s Tsangshu [Atractylodes chinensis and other A. spp] [Seed] Puree",
        "category": "Soup",
        "ingredients": [
            "salt",
            "dried jujubes",
            "white flour",
            "liquorice",
            "fennel",
            "Tsangshu"
        ],
        "effects": [
            "gets rid of all qi that is not proper warms spleen and stomach before a meal and promotes the digestion of drink and food wards off pestilence and eliminates cold-wetness evil"
        ],
        "steps": "Mix ingredients together evenly. Take a little each day on an empty stomach in boiling water.",
        "method": [],
        "effect_category": [
            "Others",
            "Gastrointestinal Issues"
        ]
    },
    {
        "recipe_name": "Apricot Frost Puree",
        "category": "Soup",
        "ingredients": [
            "salt",
            "apricot kernels",
            "Millet grains"
        ],
        "effects": [
            "cures coughing",
            "benefits the diaphragm",
            "harmonizes and accords lung qi"
        ],
        "steps": "Mix ingredients together evenly. Take two qian dissolved in boiling water each day on an empty stomach. Add a little cream.8 It is all the better.",
        "method": [],
        "effect_category": [
            "Respiratory Issues"
        ]
    },
    {
        "recipe_name": "Chinese Yam [Dioscorea opposita] Puree",
        "category": "Soup",
        "ingredients": [
            "apricot kernels",
            "millet grains",
            "Chinese yams"
        ],
        "effects": [
            "increases qi",
            "augments for deficiency"
        ],
        "steps": "Take two qian of ingredients [i.e., millet grains and apricot kernels] dissolved in boiling water each day on an empty stomach. Add a little liquid butter, and [the cooked] Chinese yams to taste.",
        "method": [],
        "effect_category": [
            "General Health and Wellness",
            "Respiratory Issues"
        ]
    },
    {
        "recipe_name": "“Four Harmonies Puree”",
        "category": "Soup",
        "ingredients": [
            "salt",
            "fennel",
            "sesame [seeds]",
            "White flour"
        ],
        "effects": [
            "disharmony of spleen and stomach",
            "cures chill pain of the abdomen"
        ],
        "steps": "Make all ingredients into a fine powder. Take a little each day on an empty stomach in boiling water.",
        "method": [],
        "effect_category": [
            "Gastrointestinal Issues"
        ]
    },
    {
        "recipe_name": "Jujube [Zizyphus jujuba and other Z. spp] and Ginger Puree",
        "category": "Soup",
        "ingredients": [
            "salt",
            "liquorice",
            "jujubes",
            "Sprouting ginger"
        ],
        "effects": [
            "accords the stomach and promotes digestion of drink and food"
        ],
        "steps": "Make a fine powder of ingredients. Combine all ingredients together evenly. Take a little in boiling water each day on an empty stomach.",
        "method": [],
        "effect_category": [
            "Gastrointestinal Issues",
            "Others"
        ]
    },
    {
        "recipe_name": "Fennel Puree",
        "category": "Soup",
        "ingredients": [
            "salt",
            "liquorice",
            "prepared mandarin orange peel",
            "Sichuan pagoda tree [Melia toosendan] fruits",
            "Fennel"
        ],
        "effects": [
            "chill pain of the middle abdomen",
            "cures asthenia of the store of primary energies"
        ],
        "steps": "Make ingredients into a fine powder. Combine together evenly. Each day take a little in boiling water on an empty stomach.",
        "method": [],
        "effect_category": [
            "General Health and Wellness",
            "Gastrointestinal Issues"
        ]
    },
    {
        "recipe_name": "Puree for Stagnant Qi",
        "category": "Soup",
        "ingredients": [
            "salt",
            "liquorice",
            "muxiang [root of Vladimiria souliei or Saussurea lappa]",
            "turmeric",
            "kueihua [Osmanthus fragrans] flowers",
            "prepared mandarin orange peel",
            "cubebs [Litsea cubeba]",
            "lesser galangal",
            "fennel",
            "Apricot kernels"
        ],
        "effects": [
            "obstructed listlessness of the diaphragm",
            "abdomen pain",
            "cures asthenia of the store of primary energies"
        ],
        "steps": "Make a fine powder of ingredients. Take a little in boiling water on an empty stomach.",
        "method": [],
        "effect_category": [
            "General Health and Wellness",
            "Gastrointestinal Issues",
            "Respiratory Issues"
        ]
    },
    {
        "recipe_name": "Oriental Flowering Apricot [Prunus mume] Puree",
        "category": "Soup",
        "ingredients": [
            "salt",
            "liquorice",
            "white sandalwood",
            "Salted oriental flowering apricots"
        ],
        "effects": [
            "failure of bodily fluids to pass",
            "dry thirst",
            "acute diarrhea and vomiting syndrome",
            "dry sensation of the five centers",
            "cures heat of the center"
        ],
        "steps": "Make a fine powder of ingredients. Each dose is one qian. Add a little juice of sprouting ginger. Dissolve in boiling water.",
        "method": [],
        "effect_category": [
            "Heat-clearing",
            "Others",
            "Gastrointestinal Issues"
        ]
    },
    {
        "recipe_name": "Chinese Quince [Chaenomeles sinensis] Puree",
        "category": "Soup",
        "ingredients": [
            "crystallized honey",
            "Chinese quinces"
        ],
        "effects": [
            "overstrained knee",
            "cures [evil] foot qi insensitivity"
        ],
        "steps": "Combine the two listed ingredients together evenly. Put into a clean crockery pot and store. Take a little each day in boiling water on an empty stomach.",
        "method": [
            "Simmer"
        ],
        "effect_category": [
            "General Health and Wellness",
            "Musculoskeletal Issues",
            "Others"
        ]
    },
    {
        "recipe_name": "Detoxifying Dried Orange Peel Puree",
        "category": "Soup",
        "ingredients": [
            "salt",
            "cardamom kernel",
            "ginseng",
            "mungbean flower",
            "kudzu flower",
            "sandalwood",
            "prepared mandarin orange peel",
            "[Prepared] fragrant orange [Citrus sinensis] peel"
        ],
        "effects": [
            "vomiting and bile in the throat",
            "is used to cure intoxication that persists"
        ],
        "steps": "Make a fine powder of ingredients. Each day take a little in boiling water on an empty stomach.",
        "method": [],
        "effect_category": [
            "Others"
        ]
    },
    {
        "recipe_name": "Qatiq Cakes",
        "category": "Pancake",
        "ingredients": [
            "white nabat",
            "acorus root",
            "Korean ginseng",
            "Qatiq"
        ],
        "effects": [
            "control thirst  cure cough",
            "bring forth saliva"
        ],
        "steps": "[For] ingredients, use grape wine to make an emulsion with the qatiq. Combine evenly with the fine powders of other medicinals. Make a dose, press into a cake. Use one cake each time. Let it dissolve slowly in the mouth.",
        "method": [],
        "effect_category": [
            "Gastrointestinal Issues",
            "Respiratory Issues"
        ]
    },
    {
        "recipe_name": "Cinnamon Qatiq Cakes",
        "category": "Pancake",
        "ingredients": [
            "white nabat",
            "Korean ginseng",
            "qatiq",
            "Cinnamon"
        ],
        "effects": [
            "stop cough-caused-by-cold-evil",
            "bring forth saliva"
        ],
        "steps": "[For] ingredients use rose-water to make an emulsion with the qatiq. Combine with the fine powders of other medicinals to make a dose. Use myrobalan [Terminalia chebula] oil. Cut out into cakes. Eat one cake each time. Let it dissolve slowly in the mouth.",
        "method": [],
        "effect_category": [
            "Gastrointestinal Issues",
            "Respiratory Issues"
        ]
    },
    {
        "recipe_name": "Tabilqa Cakes",
        "category": "Pancake",
        "ingredients": [
            "finely powdered",
            "two qian",
            "Tabilqa"
        ],
        "effects": [
            "stop thirst  cure cough",
            "benefthroat and diaphragm  bring forth saliva",
            "make the head and eye clear"
        ],
        "steps": "[For] ingredients use cicigina (this is a northern suanjueer16) and decoct into an paste. Combine with medicinal powders to make a dose, cut into a cake. Eat one cake each time. Let it dissolve slowly in the mouth.",
        "method": [
            "Simmer"
        ],
        "effect_category": [
            "Others",
            "Respiratory Issues",
            "Gastrointestinal Issues"
        ]
    },
    {
        "recipe_name": "Fragrant Orange Aromatic Cakes",
        "category": "Pancake",
        "ingredients": [
            "musk deer musk",
            "baroos camphor [Dryobalanops aromatica resin]",
            "southern borax",
            "cubebs",
            "cardamom kernel",
            "grain-of-paradise",
            "white sandalwood",
            "garuwood",
            "New fragrant orange peel"
        ],
        "effects": [
            "accord qi  clean and benefhead and eye",
            "extend the chest"
        ],
        "steps": "Make ingredients into a fine powder. Combine into a dose with liquorice paste and cut out into a cake. Eat one cake each time. Let it dissolve slowly in the mouth.",
        "method": [],
        "effect_category": [
            "General Health and Wellness",
            "Others"
        ]
    },
    {
        "recipe_name": "Cow Medullae Paste",
        "category": "Paste",
        "ingredients": [
            "oil from cow skull marrow",
            "Chinese asparagus [Asparagus lucidus or A. cojinjinensis] paste",
            "Chinese foxglove [Rehmannia glutinosa] paste",
            "Solomon’s seal [Polygonatum cirrhifolium or P. multiflorum] paste"
        ],
        "effects": [
            "lengthens the years",
            "accords blood qi",
            "the medullae strengthens sinew and bone",
            "builds up essence"
        ],
        "steps": "[Of] ingredients take the Solomon’s seal paste, the Chinese foxglove paste, and the Chinese asparagus paste and combine with the cow skull marrow oil quickly, using a silver spoon, and stirring without stopping the hand. Allow to solidify. Combine evenly into a paste. Every day take a spoonful dissolved in warm liquor on an empty stomach.",
        "method": [],
        "effect_category": [
            "General Health and Wellness",
            "Musculoskeletal Issues",
            "Others"
        ]
    },
    {
        "recipe_name": "Chinese Quince Concentrate",
        "category": "Pan-fry",
        "ingredients": [
            "white granulated sugar",
            "Chinese quinces"
        ],
        "effects": [],
        "steps": "Boil ingredients together repeatedly and make into a concentrate.",
        "method": [
            "Pan-fry",
            "Simmer"
        ],
        "effect_category": []
    },
    {
        "recipe_name": "Citron [including Citrus medica, also C. medica var. sarcodactylis] Concentrate",
        "category": "Pan-fry",
        "ingredients": [
            "white granulated sugar",
            "Citrons"
        ],
        "effects": [],
        "steps": "Boil ingredients together repeatedly and make a concentrate.",
        "method": [
            "Pan-fry",
            "Simmer"
        ],
        "effect_category": []
    },
    {
        "recipe_name": "Hazelnut Concentrate",
        "category": "Pan-fry",
        "ingredients": [
            "white granulated sugar",
            "Hazelnuts"
        ],
        "effects": [],
        "steps": "Boil ingredients together and make a concentrate.",
        "method": [
            "Pan-fry",
            "Simmer"
        ],
        "effect_category": []
    },
    {
        "recipe_name": "Purple Perilla Concentrate",
        "category": "Pan-fry",
        "ingredients": [
            "white granulated sugar",
            "dried Chinese quince",
            "Purple perilla leaf"
        ],
        "effects": [],
        "steps": "Boil ingredients together and make concentrate.",
        "method": [
            "Pan-fry",
            "Simmer"
        ],
        "effect_category": []
    },
    {
        "recipe_name": "Kumquat [Fortunella margarita] Concentrate",
        "category": "Pan-fry",
        "ingredients": [
            "white granulated sugar",
            "Kumquats"
        ],
        "effects": [],
        "steps": "Boil ingredients together and make a concentrate.",
        "method": [
            "Pan-fry",
            "Simmer"
        ],
        "effect_category": []
    },
    {
        "recipe_name": "Cherry [Prunus pseudocerasus] Concentrate",
        "category": "Pan-fry",
        "ingredients": [
            "white granulated sugar",
            "Cherries"
        ],
        "effects": [],
        "steps": "Boil ingredients together and make a concentrate.",
        "method": [
            "Pan-fry",
            "Simmer"
        ],
        "effect_category": []
    },
    {
        "recipe_name": "Peach Concentrate",
        "category": "Pan-fry",
        "ingredients": [
            "crystallized honey",
            "Large peaches"
        ],
        "effects": [],
        "steps": "Boil ingredients together and make a concentrate.",
        "method": [
            "Pan-fry",
            "Simmer"
        ],
        "effect_category": []
    },
    {
        "recipe_name": "Pomegranate Syrup",
        "category": "Thick liquid",
        "ingredients": [
            "white sugar",
            "Pomegranate seeds"
        ],
        "effects": [],
        "steps": "Boil ingredients together and make a concentrate.",
        "method": [
            "Pan-fry",
            "Simmer"
        ],
        "effect_category": []
    },
    {
        "recipe_name": "Rose [Rosa laevigata and other Rosa spp.] Hips Concentrate",
        "category": "Pan-fry",
        "ingredients": [
            "crystallized honey",
            "Rose hips"
        ],
        "effects": [],
        "steps": "Boil ingredients together and make a concentrate.",
        "method": [
            "Pan-fry",
            "Simmer"
        ],
        "effect_category": []
    },
    {
        "recipe_name": "Red Currant Sharba[t]",
        "category": "Dish",
        "ingredients": [
            "white granulated sugar",
            "Fresh northern red currants"
        ],
        "effects": [],
        "steps": "Boil ingredients together and make a concentrate.",
        "method": [
            "Pan-fry",
            "Simmer"
        ],
        "effect_category": []
    },
    {
        "recipe_name": "Cicigina (a kind of Suanci [Ziziphus spp.])",
        "category": "Dish",
        "ingredients": [
            "Cicigina"
        ],
        "effects": [],
        "steps": "Boil ingredient down to a paste in a mica pot.",
        "method": [
            "Simmer"
        ],
        "effect_category": []
    },
    {
        "recipe_name": "Pine Seed Oil",
        "category": "Oil",
        "ingredients": [
            "Pine seeds"
        ],
        "effects": [],
        "steps": "Extract the juice from ingredient by “water pressing.”23 Boil down. Take the floating, clear oil and strain with cotton. Boil again and let clear.",
        "method": [
            "Simmer"
        ],
        "effect_category": []
    },
    {
        "recipe_name": "Apricot Seed Oil",
        "category": "Oil",
        "ingredients": [
            "Apricot seeds"
        ],
        "effects": [],
        "steps": "Cook apricot seeds in water. Decoct, take the floating oil and strain with cotton. Boil again to make the oil.",
        "method": [
            "Simmer",
            "Boil"
        ],
        "effect_category": []
    },
    {
        "recipe_name": "Liquid Butter",
        "category": "Oil",
        "ingredients": [],
        "effects": [],
        "steps": "Take the floating, congealed material from cow’s milk. Boiled it becomes liquid butter.",
        "method": [
            "Simmer"
        ],
        "effect_category": []
    },
    {
        "recipe_name": "Ghee",
        "category": "Oil",
        "ingredients": [],
        "effects": [],
        "steps": "Take the very best liquid butter, something over a thousand jin in weight. After concentrating by boiling and straining, use a large crockery pot to store. During the winter months take that which is not congealed from the middle of the pot. This is called ghee.",
        "method": [
            "Pan-fry",
            "Simmer"
        ],
        "effect_category": []
    },
    {
        "recipe_name": "Mäskä Oil",
        "category": "Oil",
        "ingredients": [],
        "effects": [],
        "steps": "Take clean cow’s milk. Without stopping the hand use a qashiq (this is a wooden implement for churning butter) and churn to get the floating congealment. This is mäskä oil. At present it is also called white liquid butter.",
        "method": [],
        "effect_category": []
    },
    {
        "recipe_name": "Chinese Matrimony Vine Fruit Tea",
        "category": "Tea",
        "ingredients": [],
        "effects": [],
        "steps": "[Take] five dou of Chinese matrimony vine fruits and scour in water to clean. Remove the floating chaff, dry over a fire. Use a white cloth tube to clean the fruits and remove the stems, calyxes, and black material. Choose only red and ripe fruits. First use Sparrow Tongue Tea to cleanse a stone roller. Do not use young tea buds. Then roll the matrimony vine fruit and make a fine powder. Use each day, on an empty stomach. Use a spoonful. Add liquid butter and mix evenly. Dissolve in warmed liquor. Boiling water can also be used. (Avoid eating it together with cream)",
        "method": [
            "Bake"
        ],
        "effect_category": []
    },
    {
        "recipe_name": "Jade Mortar Tea",
        "category": "Tea",
        "ingredients": [],
        "effects": [],
        "steps": "Take] fifty jin of the best quality [tea], clean in a sieve tube. Take fifty jin of Sumen roasted rice and clean in a sieve tube. Combine uniformly together. Put into a jade mortar and grind. Make the tea.",
        "method": [],
        "effect_category": []
    },
    {
        "recipe_name": "Golden Characters Tea",
        "category": "Tea",
        "ingredients": [],
        "effects": [],
        "steps": "This is a powdered tea that is made in Huzhou in Jiangnan and presented to the court.",
        "method": [],
        "effect_category": []
    },
    {
        "recipe_name": "Mr. Fan Tianshuai’s Tea",
        "category": "Tea",
        "ingredients": [],
        "effects": [],
        "steps": "This is a bud tea that is made by Qingyuan lu in Jiangzhe and presented to the court. It is absolutely superior in flavor and color to other teas.",
        "method": [],
        "effect_category": []
    },
    {
        "recipe_name": "Purple Shoots Sparrow Tongue Tea",
        "category": "Tea",
        "ingredients": [],
        "effects": [],
        "steps": "After selecting and steaming new, tender shoots, make them into Purple Shoots Tea. The flavors of the Before Spring, Following Spring and Seeking for Spring varieties cannot compare with Purple Shoots Sparrow Tongue Tea.",
        "method": [],
        "effect_category": []
    },
    {
        "recipe_name": "Nüxuer Tea",
        "category": "Dish",
        "ingredients": [],
        "effects": [],
        "steps": "(It comes from the lands directly north. Its flavor is warming and sweet.)",
        "method": [],
        "effect_category": []
    },
    {
        "recipe_name": "Tibetan Tea",
        "category": "Tea",
        "ingredients": [],
        "effects": [],
        "steps": "(It comes from Tibet. Its flavor is bitter and astringent. It is decocted using liquid butter.)",
        "method": [],
        "effect_category": []
    },
    {
        "recipe_name": "Sichuan Tea, Rattan Tea, Kua Tea",
        "category": "Tea",
        "ingredients": [],
        "effects": [],
        "steps": "(The above come from Sichuan.)",
        "method": [],
        "effect_category": []
    },
    {
        "recipe_name": "Swallow Tail Tea",
        "category": "Tea",
        "ingredients": [],
        "effects": [],
        "steps": "(It comes from Jiangzhe and Jiangxi.)",
        "method": [],
        "effect_category": []
    },
    {
        "recipe_name": "Children’s Tea [Catechu]",
        "category": "Tea",
        "ingredients": [],
        "effects": [],
        "steps": "(It comes from Guangnan.)",
        "method": [],
        "effect_category": []
    },
    {
        "recipe_name": "Warm Mulberry Tea",
        "category": "Tea",
        "ingredients": [],
        "effects": [],
        "steps": "(It comes from dark valleys.)",
        "method": [],
        "effect_category": []
    },
    {
        "recipe_name": "Clear Tea",
        "category": "Tea",
        "ingredients": [],
        "effects": [],
        "steps": "After first bringing water to a boil, strain. Put the tea buds in it. It will be steeped in a short while.",
        "method": [
            "Pan-fry"
        ],
        "effect_category": []
    },
    {
        "recipe_name": "Roasted Tea",
        "category": "Tea",
        "ingredients": [],
        "effects": [],
        "steps": "Use an iron cauldron; roast red. It is made by roasting mäskä oil, cow’s milk, and tea buds together.",
        "method": [
            "Roast",
            "Stir-fry"
        ],
        "effect_category": []
    },
    {
        "recipe_name": "Orchid Paste",
        "category": "Paste",
        "ingredients": [],
        "effects": [],
        "steps": "Stir together three spoonfuls of Jade Mortar Powdered tea, flour, and liquid butter to make the paste. Boil in water and take a little.",
        "method": [],
        "effect_category": []
    },
    {
        "recipe_name": "Süttiken",
        "category": "Dish",
        "ingredients": [],
        "effects": [],
        "steps": "Add liquid butter to two spoonfuls of Golden Characters Powdered Tea and combine. Boil in water and take a little.",
        "method": [],
        "effect_category": []
    },
    {
        "recipe_name": "Fortified Broth",
        "category": "Soup",
        "ingredients": [],
        "effects": [],
        "steps": "Put one spoonful of Jade Mortar Tea into a cup and grind up evenly. Use after boiling a hundred times [i.e., repeatedly].",
        "method": [],
        "effect_category": []
    },
    {
        "recipe_name": "Aromatic Tea",
        "category": "Tea",
        "ingredients": [],
        "effects": [],
        "steps": "Grind together finely white tea (one bag), sliced Baroos camphor (three qian), paiyao [Millettia lasiopetala] decoction (one-half qian), and musk deer musk (two qian). Make a congee using aromatic non-glutinous rice. Combine [all ingredients] into a dose. Press into a cake.",
        "method": [
            "Simmer"
        ],
        "effect_category": []
    },
    {
        "recipe_name": "Mastajhi [Mastic] Soup",
        "category": "Soup",
        "ingredients": [
            "chickpeas [“Muslim beans”]",
            "cinnamon",
            "tsaoko cardamoms",
            "Mutton"
        ],
        "effects": [
            "accords qi",
            "warms the center",
            "supplements and increases"
        ],
        "steps": "Boil ingredients together to make a soup. Strain broth. [Cut up meat and put aside.] Add 2 he of cooked chickpeas, 1 sheng of aromatic non–glutinous rice, 1 qian of mastajhi. Evenly adjust flavors with a little salt. Add [the] cut–up meat and [garnish with] coriander leaves.",
        "method": [
            "Simmer"
        ],
        "effect_category": [
            "General Health and Wellness"
        ]
    },
    {
        "recipe_name": "Barley Soup",
        "category": "Soup",
        "ingredients": [
            "hulled barley",
            "tsaoko cardamoms",
            "Mutton"
        ],
        "effects": [
            "destroys chill qi gets rid of abdominal distension",
            "controls polydipsia",
            "warms the center and brings down qi strengthens spleen and stomach"
        ],
        "steps": "Boil ingredients to make a soup. Strain [broth. Cut up meat and put aside]. Add [the] hulled barley and boil until cooked. Evenly adjust flavors with a little salt. Add [the] cut–up meat.",
        "method": [
            "Simmer"
        ],
        "effect_category": [
            "General Health and Wellness",
            "Gastrointestinal Issues",
            "Others"
        ]
    },
    {
        "recipe_name": "Bal–po Soup ",
        "category": "Soup",
        "ingredients": [
            "Chinese radish",
            "chickpeas",
            "tsaoko cardamoms",
            "Mutton"
        ],
        "effects": [
            "brings down qi extends the diaphragm",
            "supplements the center"
        ],
        "steps": "Boil ingredients together to make a soup. Strain [broth. Cut up meat and Chinese radish and put aside]. Add to the soup [the] mutton cut up into sashuq [coin]–sized pieces, [the] cooked Chinese radish cut up into sashuq–sized pieces, 1 qian of za’faran [saffron], 2 qian of Turmeric, 2 qian of Black [“Iranian”] Pepper, half a qian of kasni, [asafoetida], coriander leaves. Evenly adjust flavors with a little salt. Eat over cooked aromatic non–glutinous rice. Add a little Vinegar.",
        "method": [
            "Simmer"
        ],
        "effect_category": [
            "General Health and Wellness",
            "Others",
            "Respiratory Issues"
        ]
    },
    {
        "recipe_name": "Šaqimur [Rape Turnip] Soup",
        "category": "Soup",
        "ingredients": [
            "aqimur",
            "chickpeas",
            "tsaoko cardamoms",
            "Mutton"
        ],
        "effects": [
            "brings down qi harmonizes spleen and stomach",
            "supplements the center"
        ],
        "steps": " Boil ingredients together and make a soup. Strain [broth. Cut up meat and šaqimur and put aside]. Add 2 he of cooked chickpeas, 1 sheng of aromatic non–glutinous rice, [the] cooked šaqimur beet cut up into sashuq–sized pieces. Add [the] cut–up meat. Evenly adjust flavors with a little salt.",
        "method": [
            "Simmer"
        ],
        "effect_category": [
            "General Health and Wellness",
            "Others",
            "Gastrointestinal Issues"
        ]
    },
    {
        "recipe_name": "Fenugreek Seed Soup",
        "category": "Soup",
        "ingredients": [
            "fenugreek seeds",
            "tsaoko cardamoms",
            "Mutton"
        ],
        "effects": [
            "accords qi",
            "warms the center",
            "orders loin and knee",
            "supplements lower primordial energy [yuanqi 元氣]"
        ],
        "steps": " Boil ingredients together and make a soup. Strain [broth]. Add Tangut Um Ash, or “Rice Heart Qizi,” half a qian of kasni. Adjust flavors with a little salt.",
        "method": [
            "Simmer"
        ],
        "effect_category": [
            "General Health and Wellness",
            "Musculoskeletal Issues"
        ]
    },
    {
        "recipe_name": "Chinese Quince Soup",
        "category": "Soup",
        "ingredients": [
            "chickpeas",
            "tsaoko cardamoms",
            "Mutton"
        ],
        "effects": [
            "[evil] foot qi insensitivity",
            "accords qi cures pain of loin and knee",
            "supplements the center"
        ],
        "steps": "Boil ingredients together into a soup. Strain [broth. Cut up meat and put aside]. Add 1 sheng of aromatic non–glutinous rice, 2 he of cooked chickpeas, “meat pellets”, two jin of Chinese quince (take the juice), 4 liang of granulated sugar. Adjust flavors with a little salt. [The] cut–up meat can perhaps be added.",
        "method": [],
        "effect_category": [
            "General Health and Wellness",
            "Musculoskeletal Issues",
            "Others"
        ]
    },
    {
        "recipe_name": "Deer Head Soup",
        "category": "Soup",
        "ingredients": [
            "Deer’s head [and] hooves"
        ],
        "effects": [
            "cures ache of foot and knee",
            "controls polydipsia",
            "supplements and increases"
        ],
        "steps": " For the ingredients, take a large chunk of kasni, grind up into a mush and apply evenly to deer head, [and] hoof meat. Fry both the [marinated] head and hoof meat in 4 liang of vegetable oil [“Muslim lesser oil”]. Quench roasted head and hoof meat in boiling water, 28 boil until soft. Add 3 qian of black pepper, 2 qian of kasni, 1 qian of long pepper [Piper longum], 1 cup of cow’s milk, 1 he of juice of sprouting ginger. Adjust flavors with a little salt. [Variation:] In one method, use deer’s tail to obtain broth. Add ground ginger. Adjust flavors with salt.",
        "method": [
            "Stir-fry",
            "Simmer"
        ],
        "effect_category": [
            "General Health and Wellness",
            "Gastrointestinal Issues",
            "Others"
        ]
    },
    {
        "recipe_name": "Pine Pollen [Juice] Soup",
        "category": "Soup",
        "ingredients": [
            "chickpeas",
            "tsaoko cardamoms",
            "Mutton"
        ],
        "effects": [
            "increases qi strengthens sinew and bone",
            "supplements the center"
        ],
        "steps": " Boil ingredients together into a soup. Strain [broth]. Fry together: one cooked sheep’s thorax (cut up into sashuq–sized pieces), 2 he of pine pollen juice, half a he of juice of sprouting ginger. [Add to soup and] evenly adjust flavors with onions, salt, vinegar and [garnish with] coriander leaves. Eat with Long Rolled Bread.",
        "method": [
            "Stir-fry",
            "Simmer"
        ],
        "effect_category": [
            "General Health and Wellness",
            "Musculoskeletal Issues"
        ]
    },
    {
        "recipe_name": "Russian Olive [Fruit] Soup",
        "category": "Soup",
        "ingredients": [
            "chickpeas",
            "tsaoko cardamoms",
            "Mutton"
        ],
        "effects": [
            "increases qi strengthens spleen and stomach",
            "supplements the center"
        ],
        "steps": "Boil ingredients together into a soup. Strain [broth]. Add together to the pot: a cooked dried sheep’s thorax (sliced up), 3 sheng of Russian olive fruits, Chinese cabbage or nettle leaf. Evenly adjust flavors with salt.",
        "method": [
            "Simmer"
        ],
        "effect_category": [
            "General Health and Wellness",
            "Gastrointestinal Issues"
        ]
    },
    {
        "recipe_name": "Barley Samsa Noodles",
        "category": "Rice noodles",
        "ingredients": [
            "chickpeas",
            "tsaoko cardamoms",
            "Mutton"
        ],
        "effects": [
            "increase qi  strengthen spleen and stomach",
            "supplement the center"
        ],
        "steps": "Boil ingredients together into a soup. Strain [broth. Set aside meat]. Make [samsa] noodles from a combination of 3 jin of barley flour, 1 chin of bean paste. [Fill with] mutton and fry. Adjust flavors with a fine qima, 2 he of juice of sprouting ginger, coriander leaves, salt, and vinegar.",
        "method": [
            "Stir-fry",
            "Simmer"
        ],
        "effect_category": [
            "General Health and Wellness",
            "Gastrointestinal Issues"
        ]
    },
    {
        "recipe_name": "Barley Strip–Noodles",
        "category": "Rice noodles",
        "ingredients": [
            "lesser galangal [Alpinia officinarum]",
            "tsaoko Cardamoms",
            "Mutton"
        ],
        "effects": [
            "increase qi",
            "supplement the center"
        ],
        "steps": "Boil ingredients together into a soup. Strain [broth. Set meataside.] Add sheep’s liver sauce ([decoct and] take the bouillon),and 5 qian of black pepper. Cut [the] cooked mutton into [small, thin pieces like] armor scales, cut up 2 liang of pickled ginger and [add along with] 1 liang of sweet melon [Cucumis melo] pickles cut–up like “armor scales.”",
        "method": [
            "Simmer"
        ],
        "effect_category": [
            "General Health and Wellness",
            "Gastrointestinal Issues"
        ]
    },
    {
        "recipe_name": "Glutinous Rice Flour Chöp",
        "category": "Rice noodles",
        "ingredients": [
            "lesser galangal",
            "tsaoko cardamoms",
            "Mutton"
        ],
        "effects": [
            "supplement the center"
        ],
        "steps": "Boil ingredients together into a soup. Strain [broth. Set aside meat]. Use sheep’s liver sauce (decoct and take the bouillon). Add 5 qian of black pepper. Combine two jin of glutinous rice flour, and one jin of bean paste and make the chöp. Cut up [the] mutton into a fine qima and add [as stuffing]. [Put into soup and] adjust flavors with salt and vinegar. A thick broth can also be used.",
        "method": [
            "Simmer"
        ],
        "effect_category": [
            "General Health and Wellness"
        ]
    },
    {
        "recipe_name": "River Pig Broth",
        "category": "Thick soup",
        "ingredients": [
            "tsaoko cardamoms",
            "Mutton"
        ],
        "effects": [
            "supplements the center"
        ],
        "steps": "Boil ingredients together into a soup. Strain [broth. Set meat aside]. Take [the] mutton (cut up finely into qima), five qian of mandarin orange peel (remove the white), 35 2 liang of White Onions (cut up finely), two qian of spices, salt, and [sheep’s liver] sauce, and make the stuffing. Use 3 jin of white flour to make the skins. Make the “River Pigs.” Cook by frying in vegetable oil [“lesser oil”] and when done put into the soup. Adjust flavors with salt. Bouillon can perhaps also be used.",
        "method": [
            "Deep-fry",
            "Simmer"
        ],
        "effect_category": [
            "General Health and Wellness"
        ]
    },
    {
        "recipe_name": "Achchiq [“Bitter”] Soup",
        "category": "Soup",
        "ingredients": [
            "lesser galangal",
            "tsaoko cardamoms",
            "Mutton"
        ],
        "effects": [
            "supplements the center"
        ],
        "steps": "Boil ingredients together into a soup. Strain [broth. Set meat aside]. Add sheep’s liver sauce. Decoct bouillon from broth and sauce. Add 5 qian of black pepper. In addition, cut up [the] mutton into strips. Cut up into “armor scales” one sheep’s tail, one sheep’s tongue, one set of sheep kidneys and add together with two liang of möög [mushrooms], and Chinese cabbage. Adjust flavors with broth, salt and vinegar.",
        "method": [
            "Simmer"
        ],
        "effect_category": [
            "General Health and Wellness"
        ]
    },
    {
        "recipe_name": "Euryale Flour Swallow’s Tongue Qizi",
        "category": "Rice noodles",
        "ingredients": [
            "chickpeas",
            "tsaoko cardamoms",
            "Mutton"
        ],
        "effects": [
            "increase vital energy",
            "supplement the center"
        ],
        "steps": " Boil ingredients together into a soup. Strain [broth. Set meat aside]. Use two jin of euryale flour, 1 jin of bean paste, work together and cut into qizi. Use [the] mutton cut up into a fine qima [and] one he of juice of sprouting ginger [as stuffing. Stuff qizi] and fry. [Add to soup and] adjust flavors with onions.",
        "method": [
            "Stir-fry",
            "Simmer"
        ],
        "effect_category": [
            "General Health and Wellness"
        ]
    },
    {
        "recipe_name": "Euryale Flour Blood Noodles",
        "category": "Rice noodles",
        "ingredients": [
            "chickpeas",
            "tsaoko cardamoms",
            "Mutton"
        ],
        "effects": [
            "increase the vital air",
            "supplement the center"
        ],
        "steps": "Boil ingredients together into a soup. Strain [broth. Set meat aside]. Use two jin of euryale flour, one jin of bean paste, and sheep’s blood and combine to make chöp. [Use] mutton cut into a fine qima [as stuffing. Stuff chöp and] Fry. [Add to soup and] adjust flavors of everything together with onions and vinegar.",
        "method": [
            "Stir-fry",
            "Simmer"
        ],
        "effect_category": [
            "General Health and Wellness"
        ]
    },
    {
        "recipe_name": "Euryale Flour Jüzmä",
        "category": "Rice noodles",
        "ingredients": [
            "chickpeas",
            "tsaoko cardamoms",
            "Mutton"
        ],
        "effects": [
            "increase the vital air",
            "supplement the center"
        ],
        "steps": " Boil ingredients together into a soup. Strain [broth. Set meat aside]. Use two jin of euryale flour, one jin of bean paste, one jin of white [wheat] flour to make the noodles. Cut [the] mutton into strip qima, stuff noodles and fry. [Add to soup and] adjust flavors of everything together with onions and vinegar.",
        "method": [
            "Stir-fry",
            "Simmer"
        ],
        "effect_category": [
            "General Health and Wellness"
        ]
    },
    {
        "recipe_name": "Euryale Flour Chöp",
        "category": "Rice noodles",
        "ingredients": [
            "lesser galangal",
            "tsaoko cardamoms",
            "Mutton"
        ],
        "effects": [
            "increase the vital air",
            "supplement the center"
        ],
        "steps": "Boil ingredients together into a soup. Strain [broth. Set meat aside]. Use sheep’s liver sauce. Take the bouillon of the combined soup and sauce. Add one liang of black pepper. Then use two jin of euryale flour, one jin bean paste and make into chöp, [stuff with the] mutton cut up into a fine qima and add. Adjust flavors with salt and vinegar.",
        "method": [
            "Simmer"
        ],
        "effect_category": [
            "General Health and Wellness"
        ]
    },
    {
        "recipe_name": "Euryale Flour Hundun",
        "category": "Wonton",
        "ingredients": [
            "chickpeas",
            "tsaoko cardamoms",
            "Mutton"
        ],
        "effects": [
            "supplement the center"
        ],
        "steps": "Boil ingredients together into a soup. Strain [broth. Set meat aside]. Cut [the] mutton into stuffing. Add 1 qian of salted mandarin orange peel (remove the white), 1 qian of sprouting ginger (cut up finely). Spice evenly with the “five spices.” Then use two jin of the euryale flour, and one jin of bean paste, make into “Fluffy pillow Hundun,” and put into the soup. Fry together a sheng of aromatic non–glutinous rice, two he of cooked chickpeas, two he of juice of sprouting ginger, one he of quince juice. [Add to soup and] evenly adjust flavors with onions and salt.",
        "method": [
            "Stir-fry",
            "Simmer"
        ],
        "effect_category": [
            "General Health and Wellness"
        ]
    },
    {
        "recipe_name": "Sundry Broth",
        "category": "Thick soup",
        "ingredients": [
            "chickpeas",
            "tsaoko cardamoms",
            "Mutton"
        ],
        "effects": [
            "supplements the center"
        ],
        "steps": "Boil ingredients together into a soup. Strain [broth]. Cook together: two sheep’s heads (clean), two sets each of sheep stomachs and lungs, one set of white blood, paired sheep intestines. When done cut up [and add to soup]. Then use three jin of bean flour to make noodles, Stuff with half a jin of möög [mushrooms], half a jin of apricot kernel paste, one liang of black pepper. Fry [with] mint and coriander leaves. Adjust flavors with onions, salt, and vinegar",
        "method": [
            "Stir-fry",
            "Simmer",
            "Boil"
        ],
        "effect_category": [
            "General Health and Wellness"
        ]
    },
    {
        "recipe_name": "Meat and Vegetable Broth",
        "category": "Thick soup",
        "ingredients": [
            "chickpeas",
            "tsaoko cardamoms",
            "Mutton"
        ],
        "effects": [
            "supplements the center"
        ],
        "steps": "Boil ingredients together into a soup. Strain [broth. Set meat aside]. [Use] three jin of bean flour to make “strip–noodles.” Cut select mutton into long qima. Cut up: one jin of Chinese yams, two lumps of pickled ginger, one sweet melon pickle, one cheese, ten carrots [“Iranian radishes”], half a sheng of möög [mushrooms], and four liang of sprouting ginger, ten eggs fried into an omelet and sliced. Use one jin of sesame seed paste and half a jin of apricot kernel paste and fry [everything together]. [Add to soup and] adjust flavors with onions, salt, and vinegar.",
        "method": [
            "Stir-fry",
            "Pan-fry",
            "Simmer"
        ],
        "effect_category": [
            "General Health and Wellness"
        ]
    },
    {
        "recipe_name": "Pearl Noodles",
        "category": "Rice noodles",
        "ingredients": [
            "chickpeas",
            "tsaoko cardamoms",
            "Mutton"
        ],
        "effects": [
            "supplement the center"
        ],
        "steps": "Boil ingredients together into a soup. Strain [broth. Set aside meat]. Cut mutton into qima. Cut up each of the following: one sheep’s heart, one sheep’s liver, a set of sheep’s lungs, two liang of sprouting ginger, four liang of pickled ginger, one liang of sweet melon pickles, ten carrots, one jin of Chinese yams, one cheese, ten eggs fried into an omelet. Then fry everything together using one jin of sesame paste. [Add everything to soup and] adjust flavors with onions, salt, and vinegar.",
        "method": [
            "Stir-fry",
            "Pan-fry",
            "Simmer"
        ],
        "effect_category": [
            "General Health and Wellness"
        ]
    },
    {
        "recipe_name": "Yellow Soup",
        "category": "Soup",
        "ingredients": [
            "chickpeas",
            "tsaoko cardamoms",
            "Mutton"
        ],
        "effects": [
            "supplements the center"
        ],
        "steps": "Boil ingredients together into a soup. Strain [broth]. Add two he of cooked chickpeas, one sheng of aromatic non–glutinous rice [34A], and five carrots (cut up). Use “meat pellets” [made from] the “meat pill” of the rear hoof of a sheep, one [sheep’s] rib (cut up into small, square pieces), three qian of turmeric, five qian of ground ginger, one qian of za’faran, and coriander leaves. Adjust flavors with salt and vinegar.",
        "method": [
            "Simmer"
        ],
        "effect_category": [
            "General Health and Wellness"
        ]
    },
    {
        "recipe_name": "Three in the Cooking Pot",
        "category": "Dish",
        "ingredients": [
            "lesser galangal",
            "tsaoko cardamoms",
            "Mutton"
        ],
        "effects": [
            "supplements the center"
        ],
        "steps": "Boil ingredients together into a soup. Strain [broth]. Use “meat pellets” [made from] the “meat pill” of the rear hoof of a sheep, “nail–headed Qizi,” “mutton jis–kebabi food” and one liang black pepper. Adjust flavors with salt and vinegar.",
        "method": [
            "Simmer"
        ],
        "effect_category": [
            "General Health and Wellness"
        ]
    },
    {
        "recipe_name": "Mallow Leaf Broth",
        "category": "Thick soup",
        "ingredients": [
            "lesser galangal",
            "tsaoko cardamoms",
            "Mutton"
        ],
        "effects": [
            "[mallow leaf] accords qi treats retained urine that does not pass its nature is cold and one cannot eat a lot in the present case we have cooked the mallow leaf with various things intended to make its nature slightly warming"
        ],
        "steps": "Boil ingredients together into a soup. [Use as stuffing] one set each of cooked sheep’s stomach and lungs (cut up), half a jin of möög [mushrooms] (cut up). Combine five qian of black pepper and one jin of white flour to make “chicken–claw vermicelli.” Add to soup. Fry mallow leaf [and add]. Adjust flavors with onions, salt, and vinegar.",
        "method": [],
        "effect_category": [
            "Gastrointestinal Issues",
            "General Health and Wellness",
            "Others"
        ]
    },
    {
        "recipe_name": "Long Bottle Gourd [Lagenaria siceraria var. depressa] Soup",
        "category": "Soup",
        "ingredients": [
            "tsaoko cardamoms",
            "Mutton"
        ],
        "effects": [
            "[the long bottle gourd] is cooling by nature is good for diabetes benefits the water paths"
        ],
        "steps": "Boil ingredients together into a soup. Strain [broth. Set aside meat]. Use six long bottle gourds (remove the pericarps and skins,dice), [the] cooked mutton (cut into strips). Make fine vermicelli from half a he of juice of sprouting ginger and two liang of white flour. Fry everything together. [Add to soup and] adjust flavors with onions, salt, and vinegar.",
        "method": [
            "Stir-fry",
            "Simmer"
        ],
        "effect_category": [
            "Others",
            "Gastrointestinal Issues"
        ]
    },
    {
        "recipe_name": "Turtle Soup",
        "category": "Soup",
        "ingredients": [
            "tsaoko cardamoms",
            "Mutton"
        ],
        "effects": [
            "increases qi supplements [in cases of] insufficiency",
            "is good for a wounded center"
        ],
        "steps": "Boil ingredients together into a soup. Strain [broth]. Cook five or six turtles. When done, remove the skin and bones, and cut into lumps [and add to soup]. Use two liang of flour to make fine vermicelli. Roast together with one he of juice of sprouting ginger, one liang of black pepper. [Add to soup and] adjust flavors with onions, salt, and vinegar.",
        "method": [
            "Stir-fry",
            "Simmer",
            "Boil"
        ],
        "effect_category": [
            "Others",
            "Musculoskeletal Issues"
        ]
    },
    {
        "recipe_name": "Cup Steamed",
        "category": "Dish",
        "ingredients": [
            "prepared mandarin orange peel",
            "lesser galangal",
            "tsaoko cardamoms",
            "or mutton",
            "Sheep’s back skin from which the hair has been removed"
        ],
        "effects": [
            "supplements the center"
        ],
        "steps": "[Take] ingredients and fry54 together with one jin of almond paste, two he of pine pollen [juice], and two he of juice of sprouting ginger. Adjust flavors evenly with onions, salt and spices [five spices]. Put into a liquor cup and steam until tender. When cooked eat with long rolled bread.",
        "method": [
            "Stir-fry",
            "Steam"
        ],
        "effect_category": [
            "General Health and Wellness"
        ]
    },
    {
        "recipe_name": "Oil Rape Shoots Broth",
        "category": "Thick soup",
        "ingredients": [
            "lesser galangal",
            "tsaoko cardamoms",
            "Mutton"
        ],
        "effects": [
            "supplements the center"
        ],
        "steps": "Boil ingredients together into a soup. Strain [broth]. Use sheep’s liver, make into a sauce. [Decoct and] take the bouillon. Make noodles with five jin of bean paste [and add to soup]. Cut up finely and add: one cheese, one jin of Chinese yams, ten carrots, one sheep’s tail, mutton. Adjust flavors with oil rape [sprouts], Chinese chives,one liang of black pepper, salt, and, vinegar.",
        "method": [
            "Simmer"
        ],
        "effect_category": [
            "General Health and Wellness"
        ]
    },
    {
        "recipe_name": "Bear Soup",
        "category": "Soup",
        "ingredients": [
            "tsaoko cardamoms",
            "Bear meat"
        ],
        "effects": [
            "treats migratory arthralgia insensitivity and [evil] foot qi"
        ],
        "steps": "[Boil] ingredients [together into a soup]. Use three qian of black pepper, one qian of kasni, two qian of turmeric, two qian of grain–of–paradise [seed of Amomum villosum or A. xanthioides], one qian of za’faran. Adjust flavors of everything together with onions, salt, and sauce.",
        "method": [],
        "effect_category": [
            "Neurological and Mental Health",
            "Others"
        ]
    },
    {
        "recipe_name": "Roast Wolf Soup",
        "category": "Soup",
        "ingredients": [
            "paradise",
            "of",
            "grain",
            "long pepper",
            "kasni",
            "black pepper",
            "tsaoko cardamoms",
            "Wolf meat"
        ],
        "effects": [
            "warms the center",
            "ancient bencao do not include entries on wolf meat at present we state that its nature is heating treats asthenia i have never heard that is poisonous for those eating it in the case of the present recipe we use spices to help its flavor warms61 the five internal organs"
        ],
        "steps": "Boil ingredients together into a soup. Adjust flavors of everything using onions, sauce, salt, and vinegar.",
        "method": [
            "Simmer"
        ],
        "effect_category": [
            "General Health and Wellness"
        ]
    },
    {
        "recipe_name": "Ishkäne",
        "category": "Dish",
        "ingredients": [
            "eggs",
            "sweet melon pickles",
            "pickled ginger",
            "cheeses",
            "sprouting ginger",
            "cucumbers",
            "cattail rhizome [Typha sp]",
            "sacred lotus rhizome",
            ". Cut into long strips",
            "[cook]. When done cut up finely",
            "two",
            "sheep’s tail",
            "Mutton"
        ],
        "effects": [
            "supplements and increases [for] the five internal organs"
        ],
        "steps": "Use a “good meat soup” and blend together ingredients. Fry [i.e.,cook dry] with two jin of sesame paste, and half a jin of finely ground ginger. Adjust flavors with onions, salt and vinegar. Eat with “Iranian buns.”",
        "method": [
            "Stir-fry"
        ],
        "effect_category": [
            "General Health and Wellness"
        ]
    },
    {
        "recipe_name": "Chöppün Noodles",
        "category": "Noodles",
        "ingredients": [
            "sprouting ginger",
            "eggs",
            "one set each of sheep intestines and lungs",
            "cut into strip qima [and stuff vermicelli]",
            "cook. When done",
            "two legs",
            "mutton",
            "White flour"
        ],
        "effects": [
            "supplement the center"
        ],
        "steps": "Use bouillon for the ingredients. Add one liang of black pepper, Adjust flavors with salt and vinegar.",
        "method": [],
        "effect_category": [
            "General Health and Wellness"
        ]
    },
    {
        "recipe_name": "Black Broth Noodles",
        "category": "Noodles",
        "ingredients": [
            "sheep’s thorax",
            "White flour"
        ],
        "effects": [
            "supplement the center"
        ],
        "steps": "Use three qian of “red flour”66 to marinate ingredients. Boil until tender. Put everything together into bouillon. Add one liang of black pepper, salt and vinegar. Flavor [evenly].",
        "method": [
            "Braise",
            "Simmer"
        ],
        "effect_category": [
            "General Health and Wellness"
        ]
    },
    {
        "recipe_name": "Chinese Yam Noodles",
        "category": "Noodles",
        "ingredients": [
            "bean paste",
            "juice of sprouting ginger",
            "eggs",
            "White flour"
        ],
        "effects": [
            "supplement [for] deficiency emaciation  increase primordial energy"
        ],
        "steps": "Use three jin of Chinese yams. Cook. When done grind up into a paste and combined with ingredients to make noodles. Cut up two legs of mutton into [38A] “nail–headed qima” [as stuffing]. Use a “good meat broth,” add [noodles] and fry. Adjust flavors with onions and salt.",
        "method": [
            "Stir-fry",
            "Boil"
        ],
        "effect_category": [
            "General Health and Wellness"
        ]
    },
    {
        "recipe_name": "Hanging Noodles",
        "category": "Noodles",
        "ingredients": [
            "pickled ginger",
            "eggs",
            "g [mushrooms]",
            "m",
            "hanging noodles",
            "Mutton"
        ],
        "effects": [
            "supplement the center"
        ],
        "steps": "Use bouillon for ingredients. Add one liang of black pepper. Adjust flavors with salt and vinegar.",
        "method": [],
        "effect_category": [
            "General Health and Wellness"
        ]
    },
    {
        "recipe_name": "Jingtei Noodles",
        "category": "Noodles",
        "ingredients": [
            "leg",
            "Mutton"
        ],
        "effects": [
            "supplement the center"
        ],
        "steps": "Use bouillon for ingredients. Add one liang of black pepper. Adjust flavors with salt and vinegar.",
        "method": [],
        "effect_category": [
            "General Health and Wellness"
        ]
    },
    {
        "recipe_name": "Sheep’s Skin Noodles",
        "category": "Noodles",
        "ingredients": [
            "previous ingredients] like “armor scales”",
            "cook. Cut up each [i.e",
            "four",
            "sheep’s loins",
            "sheep’s tongues",
            "Sheep’s skins"
        ],
        "effects": [
            "supplement the center"
        ],
        "steps": "Use a good rich meat soup, or bouillon for the ingredients. Add one liang of black pepper. Adjust flavors with salt.",
        "method": [],
        "effect_category": [
            "General Health and Wellness"
        ]
    },
    {
        "recipe_name": "Tutum Ash (This is a kind of kneaded noodle)",
        "category": "Dish",
        "ingredients": [
            "mutton",
            "White flour"
        ],
        "effects": [
            "supplement the center"
        ],
        "steps": "Use a Good Meat Soup for ingredients. Add the noodles and roast [cook dry]. Adjust flavors evenly with onions. Add garlic, cream [or yogurt], finely ground mint (or basil).",
        "method": [
            "Stir-fry"
        ],
        "effect_category": [
            "General Health and Wellness"
        ]
    },
    {
        "recipe_name": "Fine Salma (same as “Thin Silk Border” Salma)",
        "category": "Dish",
        "ingredients": [
            "roast the meat. [Make into] quruq qima [and stuff salma]",
            "two legs",
            "mutton",
            "White flour"
        ],
        "effects": [
            "supplement the center"
        ],
        "steps": "Use bouillon for ingredients. Add one liang of black pepper. Adjust flavors with salt and vinegar.",
        "method": [],
        "effect_category": [
            "General Health and Wellness"
        ]
    },
    {
        "recipe_name": "Water Dragon Qizi",
        "category": "Dish",
        "ingredients": [
            "sweet melon pickles",
            "carrots",
            "pickled ginger",
            "Chinese yams",
            "eggs",
            "[stuff qizi with qima]",
            "six jin. [Make dough and] cut into “cash eye qizi”",
            "white flour",
            "Mutton"
        ],
        "effects": [
            "supplement the center"
        ],
        "steps": "Use bouillon for ingredients. Add two liang of black pepper. Adjust flavors with salt and vinegar.",
        "method": [],
        "effect_category": [
            "General Health and Wellness"
        ]
    },
    {
        "recipe_name": "[U]mach (a kind of hand twisted noodle. It can be glutinous rice flour or euryale flour.)",
        "category": "Dish",
        "ingredients": [
            "six jin",
            "White flour"
        ],
        "effects": [
            "increases qi",
            "supplements the center"
        ],
        "steps": " Use a good meat soup for ingredients and roast [cook dry]. Adjust flavors of everything together with onions, vinegar, and salt.",
        "method": [
            "Stir-fry"
        ],
        "effect_category": [
            "General Health and Wellness"
        ]
    },
    {
        "recipe_name": "Shoyla Toyym",
        "category": "Dish",
        "ingredients": [
            "carrots",
            "g [mushrooms]",
            "m",
            "Chinese yams",
            "sheep’s tongues",
            "mutton",
            "White flour"
        ],
        "effects": [
            "supplements the center"
        ],
        "steps": "Use a good rich meat soup, add all ingredients and roast [cook dry]. Adjust flavors with onions and vinegar.",
        "method": [
            "Stir-fry"
        ],
        "effect_category": [
            "General Health and Wellness"
        ]
    },
    {
        "recipe_name": "Qima Congee",
        "category": "Conge",
        "ingredients": [
            "leg",
            "Mutton"
        ],
        "effects": [
            "increases the power of qi",
            "supplements spleen and stomach"
        ],
        "steps": "[Prepare] ingredients, use select mutton. Cut up into a chunk qima. First take [millet] grains and add to the soup. Then add the qima, rice, onions, and salt. Boil to make the congee. One can perhaps add polished rice, zhemi [uniform washed grains of fine millet], or dried rice. All are possible.",
        "method": [
            "Simmer"
        ],
        "effect_category": [
            "Gastrointestinal Issues",
            "General Health and Wellness"
        ]
    },
    {
        "recipe_name": "Soup Congee",
        "category": "Conge",
        "ingredients": [
            "Mutton"
        ],
        "effects": [
            "increases kidney qi",
            "supplements spleen and stomach"
        ],
        "steps": "Boil ingredient into a soup. Strain. Then add two sheng of millet grains to make a congee. When the congee is cooked, add rice, onions and salt. One can perhaps add polished rice, zhemi or dried rice. All are possible.",
        "method": [
            "Simmer"
        ],
        "effect_category": [
            "Gastrointestinal Issues"
        ]
    },
    {
        "recipe_name": "Millet Insipid Congee",
        "category": "Conge",
        "ingredients": [
            "Millet grains"
        ],
        "effects": [
            "supplements the center"
        ],
        "steps": "[For the ingredient] first boil water, settling out impurities and straining. Then scour clean the millet, three to five times. Boil to make a congee. One can perhaps add polished rice, zhemi or dried rice. All are possible.",
        "method": [
            "Simmer"
        ],
        "effect_category": [
            "General Health and Wellness"
        ]
    },
    {
        "recipe_name": "Qamh [Triticum durum] Soup",
        "category": "Conge",
        "ingredients": [
            "qamh",
            "Mutton"
        ],
        "effects": [
            "supplements the center"
        ],
        "steps": "Boil ingredients into a soup. Strain [broth. Cut up meat into qima.] Add the qamh (scoured clean). Then add fine qima, rice, onions and salt. Boil together into a congee. It is also possible not to use qima.",
        "method": [
            "Simmer"
        ],
        "effect_category": [
            "General Health and Wellness"
        ]
    },
    {
        "recipe_name": "Se-aBru [Pomegranate] Soup (This is the name of a Western Indian Food)",
        "category": "Soup",
        "ingredients": [
            "kasni",
            "sprouting ginger",
            "cinnamon",
            "tsaoko cardamoms",
            "Mutton"
        ],
        "effects": [
            "aching pain along the spinal column",
            "chill pain of the abdomen",
            "treats deficiency chill of the primordial storehouse"
        ],
        "steps": "Boil ingredients into a soup using one telir of water. Pour into a stone top cooking pot. Add a jin of pomegranate fruits, two liang of black pepper, and a little salt. The pomegranate fruits should be baked using one cup of vegetable oil and a lump of asafoetida the size of a garden pea. Roast [i.e., cook dry ingredients] until a fine yellow in color, slightly black. Remove debris and oil in the soup. Strain clean. Use the smoke produced from roasting jiaxiang [operculum of Turbo cornutus and related spp], Chinese spikenard [Nardostachys chinensis], kasni, and butter to fumigate a jar. Seal up and store [the Se-aBru Soup] as desired.",
        "method": [
            "Roast",
            "Stir-fry",
            "Simmer"
        ],
        "effect_category": [
            "General Health and Wellness",
            "Gastrointestinal Issues",
            "Musculoskeletal Issues"
        ]
    },
    {
        "recipe_name": "Broiled Sheep’s Heart",
        "category": "Dish",
        "ingredients": [
            "za’faran",
            "Sheep’s heart"
        ],
        "effects": [
            "depressed melancholy",
            "treats heart energy agitation"
        ],
        "steps": "",
        "method": [
            "Broil"
        ],
        "effect_category": [
            "General Health and Wellness"
        ]
    },
    {
        "recipe_name": "Broiled Sheep’s Loins",
        "category": "Dish",
        "ingredients": [
            "za’faran",
            "Sheep’s loins"
        ],
        "effects": [
            "treat lumbago due to strain and ocular ache"
        ],
        "steps": "[For] ingredients use one shallow cup of attar of roses. Dissolve [the za’faran] and take the juice. Add a little salt. Spit the sheep’s loins on spits and broil over the fire. Baste regularly with the [attar–]za’faran juice. Continue until the basting juice is gone. If eaten it will have great efficacy.",
        "method": [
            "Broil"
        ],
        "effect_category": [
            "Musculoskeletal Issues"
        ]
    },
    {
        "recipe_name": "Deboned Chicken Morsels",
        "category": "Dish",
        "ingredients": [
            "[wheat] flour",
            "finely ground Chinese flower pepper",
            "finely ground ginger",
            "onions",
            "juice of sprouting ginger",
            "Fat chickens"
        ],
        "effects": [],
        "steps": "[For] the ingredients take the broth used to boil the chickens and fry [cook dry]. Add onions and vinegar. Adjust flavors with juice of sprouting ginger.",
        "method": [
            "Stir-fry",
            "Boil"
        ],
        "effect_category": []
    },
    {
        "recipe_name": "Roasted Quail",
        "category": "Dish",
        "ingredients": [
            "one",
            "sheep’s tail",
            "finely ground ginger",
            "Chinese radishes",
            "Quail"
        ],
        "effects": [],
        "steps": "[For] ingredients take the broth used to cook the quail and fry [cook dry]. Adjust flavors with onions and vinegar.",
        "method": [
            "Stir-fry",
            "Boil"
        ],
        "effect_category": []
    },
    {
        "recipe_name": "Plate Rabbit",
        "category": "Dish",
        "ingredients": [
            "fine spices",
            "sheep’s tail",
            "Chinese radishes",
            "Rabbit"
        ],
        "effects": [],
        "steps": "[For] ingredients use [sesame oil?] and fry. Adjust flavors with onions and vinegar. Add two liang of vermicelli. Adjust flavors.",
        "method": [
            "Stir-fry"
        ],
        "effect_category": []
    },
    {
        "recipe_name": "“Tangut” Lungs",
        "category": "Dish",
        "ingredients": [
            "juice of sprouting ginger",
            "black pepper",
            "butter",
            "flour",
            "leeks",
            "Sheep’s lung"
        ],
        "effects": [],
        "steps": "[For] ingredients use salt and adjust flavors evenly. Submerge the lungs in water and cook. When done baste with the juice and eat.",
        "method": [
            "Boil"
        ],
        "effect_category": []
    },
    {
        "recipe_name": "Turmeric[–Colored] Tendon",
        "category": "Dish",
        "ingredients": [
            "gardenia nuts [Gardenia jasminoides]",
            "za’faran",
            "white flour",
            "bean paste",
            "sheep ribs",
            "Sheep’s tendon"
        ],
        "effects": [],
        "steps": "[For] ingredients use salt and spices and adjust flavors. Dip tendon [and sheep rib chunks] in batter [i.e., made from the bean paste, white flour, za’faran and gardenia nuts]. Put into vegetable oil and fry.",
        "method": [
            "Deep-fry"
        ],
        "effect_category": []
    },
    {
        "recipe_name": "Drum Qazi",
        "category": "Dish",
        "ingredients": [
            "spices",
            "prepared mandarin orange peel",
            "onions",
            "sprouting ginger",
            "eggs",
            "sheep’s tail",
            "Mutton"
        ],
        "effects": [],
        "steps": "Flavor ingredients evenly. Put into a sheep’s white bowel and cook. When done cut up into drum shapes. Use one jin of bean paste, one jin of white flour, one qian of za’faran, three qian of gardenia nuts. Take the juice, and apply together to the drum *qazi. Put into vegetable oil and fry.",
        "method": [
            "Deep-fry",
            "Boil"
        ],
        "effect_category": []
    },
    {
        "recipe_name": "Sheep’s Heads Dressed in Flowers",
        "category": "Dish",
        "ingredients": [
            "Chinese radishes",
            "eggs",
            "pickled ginger",
            "sprouting ginger",
            "sheep’s stomach and lungs",
            "sheep’s loins",
            "Sheep’s heads"
        ],
        "effects": [],
        "steps": "[For] ingredients use a good meat soup and fry. Adjust flavors with onions, salt, and vinegar.",
        "method": [
            "Stir-fry"
        ],
        "effect_category": []
    },
    {
        "recipe_name": "Fish Cakes",
        "category": "Dish",
        "ingredients": [
            "kasni",
            "finely ground black pepper",
            "finely ground prepared mandarin orange peel",
            "onions",
            "sprouting ginger",
            "sheep’s tail",
            "Large carp"
        ],
        "effects": [],
        "steps": "[To the] ingredients [other than the carp] add salt. Add to the fish and work meat. Roll into cakes like crossbow bullets. Fry in vegetable oil.",
        "method": [
            "Deep-fry"
        ],
        "effect_category": []
    },
    {
        "recipe_name": "Cotton Rose–[Petal] Chicken",
        "category": "Dish",
        "ingredients": [
            "apricot kernel paste",
            "safflower [and] gardenia nuts",
            "Spinacia oleracea] and coriander",
            "spinach [true spinach",
            "eggs",
            "carrots",
            "sprouting ginger",
            "sheep’s stomach and lungs",
            "Chickens"
        ],
        "effects": [],
        "steps": "[For] ingredients use a good meat soup and roast. Adjust flavors with onions and vinegar.",
        "method": [
            "Stir-fry"
        ],
        "effect_category": []
    },
    {
        "recipe_name": "Meat Cakes",
        "category": "Pancake",
        "ingredients": [
            "finely ground coriander",
            "long pepper",
            "black pepper",
            "kasni",
            "Select mutton"
        ],
        "effects": [],
        "steps": "[For] ingredients use salt. Adjust flavors evenly. Use the fingers to make “cakes.” Put into vegetable oil and fry.",
        "method": [
            "Deep-fry"
        ],
        "effect_category": []
    },
    {
        "recipe_name": "Salt Stomach",
        "category": "Dish",
        "ingredients": [
            "Sheep’s bitter bowel"
        ],
        "effects": [],
        "steps": " Apply salt to ingredient. When it has dried in the wind, put into vegetable oil and fry.",
        "method": [
            "Deep-fry"
        ],
        "effect_category": []
    },
    {
        "recipe_name": "Näwälä",
        "category": "Dish",
        "ingredients": [
            "eggs",
            "Cooked sheep’s thoraxes"
        ],
        "effects": [],
        "steps": "[For] ingredients use all kinds of fresh vegetables. Roll up together in bread.",
        "method": [],
        "effect_category": []
    },
    {
        "recipe_name": "Turmeric[–Colored] Fish",
        "category": "Dish",
        "ingredients": [
            "finely ground coriander",
            "bean paste",
            "white flour",
            "Carp"
        ],
        "effects": [],
        "steps": "[For the] ingredients, after making a marinate using salt and spices, marinate fish and fry in vegetable oil. When done, use two liang of sprouting ginger (cut into strips), coriander leaves, safflower dye, radish slices, and fry. Adjust flavors with onions.",
        "method": [
            "Deep-fry",
            "Stir-fry",
            "Braise"
        ],
        "effect_category": []
    },
    {
        "recipe_name": "Deboned Wild Goose Morsels",
        "category": "Dish",
        "ingredients": [
            "finely ground ginger",
            "Wild geese"
        ],
        "effects": [],
        "steps": "[For] ingredients use a good meat soup and roast. Adjust flavors with onions and salt.",
        "method": [
            "Stir-fry"
        ],
        "effect_category": []
    },
    {
        "recipe_name": "Galangal Sauce Hog’s Head",
        "category": "Dish",
        "ingredients": [
            "honey",
            "vegetable oil",
            "tsaoko cardamom",
            "cinnamon",
            "Chinese flower pepper",
            "lesser galangal",
            "prepared mandarin orange peel",
            "Hog’s head"
        ],
        "effects": [],
        "steps": "Boil ingredients together until done. Then add finely ground mustard and roast. Adjust flavors with onions, vinegar and salt.",
        "method": [
            "Stir-fry",
            "Simmer"
        ],
        "effect_category": []
    },
    {
        "recipe_name": "Cattail “Sweet Melon Pickles”",
        "category": "Dish",
        "ingredients": [
            "cattail [rhizome]",
            "Chinese flower pepper",
            "Cleaned mutton"
        ],
        "effects": [],
        "steps": "[For] ingredients use one liang of fine spices. Apply evenly with salt.",
        "method": [],
        "effect_category": []
    },
    {
        "recipe_name": "Deboned Sheep’s Head Morsels",
        "category": "Dish",
        "ingredients": [
            "black pepper",
            "finely ground ginger",
            "Sheep’s head"
        ],
        "effects": [],
        "steps": "[For] ingredients use a “good meat soup” and roast. Adjust flavors with onions, salt and vinegar.",
        "method": [
            "Stir-fry"
        ],
        "effect_category": []
    },
    {
        "recipe_name": "Deboned Ox Hoof Morsels (Horse’s Hoof, Bear’s Paw are entirely the same)",
        "category": "Dish",
        "ingredients": [
            "finely ground ginger",
            "Ox hooves"
        ],
        "effects": [],
        "steps": "[For] ingredients use a good meat soup and roast. Adjust flavors with onions and salt.",
        "method": [
            "Stir-fry"
        ],
        "effect_category": []
    },
    {
        "recipe_name": "Fine Chizig",
        "category": "Dish",
        "ingredients": [
            "ka’fur [Camphor]",
            "sheep’s tail",
            "Chinese radish",
            "Mutton"
        ],
        "effects": [],
        "steps": "[For] ingredients use a good meat soup and roast. Adjust flavors with onions.",
        "method": [
            "Stir-fry"
        ],
        "effect_category": []
    },
    {
        "recipe_name": "Liver and Sprouting [Ginger]",
        "category": "Dish",
        "ingredients": [
            "smartweed",
            "basil",
            "Chinese radish",
            "sprouting ginger",
            "Sheep’s liver"
        ],
        "effects": [],
        "steps": " [For] ingredients use a good meat soup and roast. Adjust flavors with onions.",
        "method": [],
        "effect_category": []
    },
    {
        "recipe_name": "Horse Stomach Plate",
        "category": "Dish",
        "ingredients": [
            "finely ground mustard",
            "Horse stomach and intestines"
        ],
        "effects": [],
        "steps": "[For] ingredients, take the white blood irrigating bowel and cut into flower shapes. [Take] the astringent spleen, 99 combine with fat [i.e., suet] and mince as filling. When made into morsels, fry. Adjust flavors with onions, salt, vinegar, and finely ground mustard.",
        "method": [
            "Stir-fry"
        ],
        "effect_category": []
    },
    {
        "recipe_name": "Scalded Jasa’a (a delicacy)",
        "category": "Dish",
        "ingredients": [
            "onions",
            "kasni",
            "Jasa’a"
        ],
        "effects": [],
        "steps": "[For] ingredient use salt and work together with everything else. Fry quickly [scald] in vegetable oil. When done, then use two qian of za’faran dissolv",
        "method": [
            "Deep-fry",
            "Braise"
        ],
        "effect_category": []
    },
    {
        "recipe_name": "Boiled Sheep’s Hooves",
        "category": "Dish",
        "ingredients": [
            "finely ground ginger",
            "Sheep’s hooves",
            "Ingredients"
        ],
        "effects": [],
        "steps": "[To] ingredient add vermicelli and fry. Adjust flavors with onions, vinegar, and salt.",
        "method": [
            "Stir-fry"
        ],
        "effect_category": []
    },
    {
        "recipe_name": "Boiled Sheep’s Breast",
        "category": "Dish",
        "ingredients": [
            "remove the hair and wash. Cook until tender. Cut up into sashuq",
            "two",
            "Sheep’s breasts"
        ],
        "effects": [],
        "steps": "[For] ingredient use a good meat soup. Add flour vermicelli and fry. Adjust flavors with onions and vinegar.",
        "method": [
            "Stir-fry"
        ],
        "effect_category": []
    },
    {
        "recipe_name": "Fine Fish Hash",
        "category": "Dish",
        "ingredients": [
            "basil and smartweed",
            "onions",
            "Chinese radishes",
            "sprouting ginger",
            "Young carp"
        ],
        "effects": [],
        "steps": "[To] ingredients add finely ground mustard and fry. Adjust flavors with onions, salt and vinegar.",
        "method": [
            "Stir-fry"
        ],
        "effect_category": []
    },
    {
        "recipe_name": "Red Strips",
        "category": "Dish",
        "ingredients": [
            "basil and smartweed",
            "Chinese radish",
            "sprouting ginger",
            "Sheep’s blood combined with white flour"
        ],
        "effects": [],
        "steps": "[For] ingredients use salt. Adjust flavors with vinegar and finely ground mustard.",
        "method": [],
        "effect_category": []
    },
    {
        "recipe_name": "Roast Wild Goose (Roast Cormorant and Roast Duck are the same)",
        "category": "Dish",
        "ingredients": [
            "finely ground coriander",
            "onions",
            "sheep’s stomach [and attached skin]",
            "Wild goose"
        ],
        "effects": [],
        "steps": "Use salt and flavor ingredients together [with the onions and ground coriander]. Put into the goose’s stomach [put goose into sheep’s stomach] and roast.",
        "method": [
            "Roast"
        ],
        "effect_category": []
    },
    {
        "recipe_name": "Roast Eurasian Curlew",
        "category": "Dish",
        "ingredients": [
            "spices",
            "onions",
            "finely ground coriander",
            "Eurasian curlews"
        ],
        "effects": [],
        "steps": "Apply [coriander, onions and spices] uniformly [to] ingredients and roast. One may dress the curlews in a thick flour and steamroast until done in a cage; this is also possible. One may dress the curlews with liquid butter combined with flour, and brazier cook in a brazier; this is also possible.",
        "method": [
            "Roast",
            "Steam"
        ],
        "effect_category": []
    },
    {
        "recipe_name": "Willow–Steamed Lamb",
        "category": "Dish",
        "ingredients": [
            "A sheep"
        ],
        "effects": [],
        "steps": "[For] ingredient construct a brazier on the ground three qi deep. Surround with stones. Heat the stones until red hot. Use a tabaq to hold the lamb. On top use willow [branches] to cover and seal with earth. Cook until done.",
        "method": [
            "Roast"
        ],
        "effect_category": []
    },
    {
        "recipe_name": "Quick Manta",
        "category": "Steamed bun",
        "ingredients": [
            "onions",
            "mutton fat",
            "Mutton"
        ],
        "effects": [],
        "steps": "[To] ingredients add spices, salt and sauce, and combine into stuffing.",
        "method": [],
        "effect_category": []
    },
    {
        "recipe_name": "Deer Milk Fat 105 Manta (One can [also] perhaps make “Quick Manta,” or perhaps “Thin–skin Manta,” Both are possible.)",
        "category": "Steamed bun",
        "ingredients": [
            "prepared mandarin orange peel",
            "sprouting ginger",
            "sheep’s tail",
            "[Dried] deer milk fat"
        ],
        "effects": [],
        "steps": "[To] ingredients add spices, and salt, and combine to make stuffing.",
        "method": [],
        "effect_category": []
    },
    {
        "recipe_name": "Eggplant Manta",
        "category": "Steamed bun",
        "ingredients": [
            "onions",
            "sheep’s tail",
            "sheep’s fat",
            "Mutton"
        ],
        "effects": [],
        "steps": "[For] combine ingredients with meats into a stuffing. But [instead of making a dough covering] put it inside the eggplant [skin] and steam. Add garlic, cream [or yogurt etc.], finely ground mint [or basil]. Eat.",
        "method": [
            "Steam"
        ],
        "effect_category": []
    },
    {
        "recipe_name": "Cut Flowers Manta",
        "category": "Steamed bun",
        "ingredients": [
            "sheep’s tail",
            "sheep’s fat",
            "Mutton"
        ],
        "effects": [],
        "steps": "[To] ingredients add, according to recipe, spices, salt and sauce. Make the stuffing. Form the Manta. Use scissors to cut out into various flower shapes. Steam. Use safflower to dye the flowers.",
        "method": [
            "Steam"
        ],
        "effect_category": []
    },
    {
        "recipe_name": "Quartz Horns",
        "category": "Dish",
        "ingredients": [
            "onions",
            "sheep’s tail",
            "sheep’s fat",
            "Mutton"
        ],
        "effects": [],
        "steps": "[To] ingredients add fine spices, salt and sauce and mix [everything] together uniformly. Use bean paste to make skins. Make the horns.",
        "method": [],
        "effect_category": []
    },
    {
        "recipe_name": "Butter Skin Yubqa",
        "category": "Dish",
        "ingredients": [
            "onions",
            "sheep’s tail",
            "sheep’s fat",
            "Mutton"
        ],
        "effects": [],
        "steps": "[To] ingredients add spices, salt, and sauce and mix [everything] together uniformly. Use vegetable oil, rice flour and [white wheat] flour, combine to make the skins",
        "method": [],
        "effect_category": []
    },
    {
        "recipe_name": "Päräk Horns",
        "category": "Dish",
        "ingredients": [
            "sheep’s tail",
            "sheep’s fat",
            "Mutton"
        ],
        "effects": [],
        "steps": "[To] ingredients add spices, salt, and sauce and mix [everything] together uniformly. Use white flour to make the skins. Bake on a flat iron. When done, then use liquid butter and honey. Perhaps one can use pear–shaped bottle gourd meat to make stuffing. This is also possible.",
        "method": [],
        "effect_category": []
    },
    {
        "recipe_name": "Shilön Horns",
        "category": "Dish",
        "ingredients": [
            "onions",
            "sheep’s tail",
            "sheep’s fat",
            "Mutton"
        ],
        "effects": [],
        "steps": "[To] ingredients add spices, salt and sauce and mix [everything] together uniformly. Take white flour, honey and vegetable oil and mix together. Put into boiling water in a cauldron. When cooked make skins.",
        "method": [],
        "effect_category": []
    },
    {
        "recipe_name": "Pleurotus ostreatus [Mushroom] Baozi (Some make them from crab spawn. This is also possible. Wisteria Baozi is entirely the same.)",
        "category": "Dish",
        "ingredients": [
            "prepared mandarin orange peel",
            "onions",
            "sheep’s tail",
            "sheep’s fat",
            "Mutton"
        ],
        "effects": [],
        "steps": "[To] ingredients add spices, salt, sauce and make stuffing. [Use] white flour to make a thin skin. Steam.",
        "method": [
            "Steam"
        ],
        "effect_category": []
    },
    {
        "recipe_name": "Qurim “Bonnets” [i.e., boqtas]",
        "category": "Dish",
        "ingredients": [
            "onions",
            "[and] [sheep’s] bitter bowel",
            "sheep’s stomach and lungs",
            "eggs",
            "Chinese yams",
            "bean paste",
            "sprouting ginger",
            "vegetable oil",
            "fruit of Gardenia jasminoides",
            "safflower",
            "nuts [Pistachio nuts]",
            "pist",
            "walnuts",
            "apricot kernel paste",
            "g [mushrooms]",
            "m",
            "badam [almonds]",
            "pine pollen",
            "euryale seeds",
            "sheep’s tail",
            "Mutton"
        ],
        "effects": [],
        "steps": "[For] ingredients [except pine pollen juice and the bean paste] use salt. Adjust flavors evenly with sauce and the five spices. Use bean paste to make skins. Steam in cups. Apply pine pollen juice and eat.",
        "method": [
            "Steam"
        ],
        "effect_category": []
    },
    {
        "recipe_name": "Poppy Seed Buns",
        "category": "Pancake",
        "ingredients": [
            "poppy seeds",
            "liquid butter",
            "cow’s milk",
            "White flour"
        ],
        "effects": [],
        "steps": "[For] ingredients use salt and a little soda and combine with the flour. Make the buns.",
        "method": [
            "Roast"
        ],
        "effect_category": []
    },
    {
        "recipe_name": "Cow’s Milk Buns",
        "category": "Pancake",
        "ingredients": [
            "fennel",
            "liquid butter",
            "cow’s milk",
            "White flour"
        ],
        "effects": [],
        "steps": "[For] ingredients use salt and a little soda and combine with the flour. Make the buns.",
        "method": [
            "Roast"
        ],
        "effect_category": []
    },
    {
        "recipe_name": "Borbi[n] Soup (this is the piteng bone [i.e., knee joint] of a sheep.) ",
        "category": "Soup",
        "ingredients": [
            "Borbi[n]"
        ],
        "effects": [
            "increases vital [healthy] energy",
            "insufficiency of yin qi benefits blood and pulse",
            "cold–evil attack emaciation",
            "is good for xulao diseases of men and women"
        ],
        "steps": "Boil ingredient in one telir of water. It will boil down to one-fourth. Strain clean, remove oil and the sediment and let coagulate again. If one wishes to eat, eat as much as desired.",
        "method": [
            "Simmer"
        ],
        "effect_category": [
            "Others"
        ]
    },
    {
        "recipe_name": "Miqan–u kö[n]lesün",
        "category": "Dish",
        "ingredients": [
            "One sheep’s rear leg"
        ],
        "effects": [
            "the seven kinds of wounds",
            "treats the five kinds of impairments and"
        ],
        "steps": "[For] ingredient use a clean cooking pot. Cook by dry scorching. Make sure the top is airtight and does not allow qi [i.e., air] to pass. Afterwards use a clean cloth, knot up tightly and take the juice.",
        "method": [],
        "effect_category": [
            "General Health and Wellness"
        ]
    }
]