Chunpan Noodles for Qi (Energy)

SOURCE: Principles of Correct Dipt

INGREDIENTS
Wheat flour  3000g
Mutton  100g
Goat (or sheep) tripe  500g
Egg  5
Mushroom, Agaricus Campestris  200g
Hotbed chive, Herba Allii Tuberosi   250g
Stalk of Chinese cabbage, Herba Brassicae Pekinensis  500g
Fresh ginger, salt, pepper powder, cooking wine, vinegar  right amount.

PROCESS: Have the mutton and tripe washed clean and cut into cubes of 2 square centimetres; have the mushroom washed clean and cut in halves; wash the stalks of Chinese cabbage clean and cut them into sections. Have the chives washed clean and chopped up for later use. Mix the flour with just the right amount of water, put in the hotbed chives and salt and knead them together into firm dough, roll it out to make noodles. Put the mutton and tripe into an aluminium pan, add fresh ginger and mushroom; heat it over a strong fire until they are well done, then, put in the noodles, go on heating until the soup boils; put in salt, cooking wine, vinegar and pepper powder.

DIRECTICNS: It can be taken as meals.

EFFICACY: Invigorating the spleen and stomach to replenish qi.

INDICATIONS  Shortness of breath, disinclination to talk, Viral Hepatitis, lassitude, Enlarged Spleen, emaciation and other symptoms resulting from malnutrition caused by deficiency of the spleen-qi and the stomach-qi.