Ok so I've been yapping about this Chinese herbal soup my wife makes that tends to give a good energy boost, strengthen your body, make you feel better. Please forgive if the translation isn't all that clear, This is one of those "there really isn't a recipie for this, just a handfull of this and that" type of recipies.

A word of caution here, this is an acquired taste. If you're expecting normal chicken soup, forgeddaboutit. However it does seem to help with the energy level. Some of the ingredients are going to be difficult to find stateside, you don't want to be using the powdered stuff. The Chinese name of the ingredient is in brackets.

20 grams Red Glossy Ganoderma (chi ling zhi)
10 grams Astragalus Membranaceus /Astragalus Root (huang qi)
10 grams Chinese Angelica (dang gui)
(all three of the above should be chopped into pieces. Stuff below doesn't need to be chopped)
a little bit (like a quarter of a orange

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