Dog Meat Soup

A prescription in traditional Chinese medicated diet. Ingredients: dog meat 1500g, seasonings in proper amount. Preparation: cut the meat into cubes, stew them in water with aniseed, tangerine peel, common fennel fruit, cinnamon bark, tsaoko, fresh ginger and salt, until they are thoroughly done. Administration: The meat is for eating and the soup for drinking. Functions: warming and reinforcing the functions of the lung, spleen and kidney. Indications: cold-deficiency of the spleen and the kidney, epigastric and abdominal distention, cold and pain of the loins and knees, light-colored urine, frequent urination, declination of sexual function, deficiency of both lung and spleen, asthma of insufficiency type, chronic cough, etc.

-From Chinese-English Dictionary of Traditional Chinese Medicine, 1996