Solomonseal Rhizome and Pork Heart for Congestive Heart-Failure

MAIN INGREDIENTS
Pork heart, 500g
fragrant Rhizoma Polygonati Odorati (Yuzhu), 20g

SUBSIDIARY INGREDIENTS
Canned water chestnut, Bulbus Heleocharis Tuberosae, 50g
Hotbed chives, Herba Allii Tuberosi, 10g
Chicken broth, 40g

CONDIMENTS
Refined salt, 2.5g
Soy sauce, 15g
Cooking wine, 10g
Green Chinese onion, Allium Fistulosum, 6g
Fresh ginger, Rhizoma Zingiberis Recens, 6g
Watered starch, 15g
Sesame-seed oil, Oleum Sesami, 5g
Vegetable oil, 500g (only 50g of it will be used up)
White sugar, pepper powder and vinegar (right amount)

PROCESS: Wash fragrant Rhizoma Polygonati Odorati (Yuzhu) clean, cut them into pieces, and decoct them in water three times; mix the three decoctions into one and enrich the mixture by boiling it until 20ml of it is left.  Slice up the pork heart, put the slices in a bowl and mix them with refined salt and watered starch. Wash the hotbed chives clean, cut them into 3-cm-long sections; slice up water chestnut, cut green Chinese onion, ginger and garlic into small bits.  Place in a small seasoning bowl the cooking wine, soy sauce, white sugar, gourmet powder and refined salt; make thick liquid mixture of the pepper powder, chicken soup, watered starch and the enriched fragrant solomonseal rhizome decoction for later use.

After all this having been done, place a boiler over a fire, pour in vegetable oil and put in the pork heart pieces to sauté them; when they are well-done, pour them in a strainer to drain the oil. Put the boiler over the fire again, and when the remaining oil becomes hot, put in, first of all, the garlic bits, then the bits of green Chinese onion and ginger; fry them until a sweet smell comes off and then put in the sliced water chestnut; when it is well-done, put in the sautéed pork heart, followed by the thick liquid mixture, hotbed chive sections, and stir-fry them until they are done. Finally, drip in vinegar, a little sesame seed oil, and place them in a dish.

This diet has the functions of nourishing yin and blood, and tranquilizing the mind.  It is applicable to patients suffering from deficiency of the heart-yin and deficiency of the heart-blood manifested as palpitation, vexation, Insomnia and Tinnitus, or deficiency of the lung-yin manifested as dry cough, chronic cough, or deficiency of the stomach-yin manifested as excessive thirst, loss of appetite and so on. It can also be used as cooked dishes for health care of patients suffering from chronic heart-failure. Any of the above-mentioned prescriptions of medicated diets for coronary heart disease can be selected to treat patients suffering from chronic heart-failure according to differentiation of syndromes.