LBN's herbal chicken soup

Ingredients:

1) Small chicken
2) Salt
3)1litre of water

Chinese herbs:

1) Radix Codonopsis/党参 - 25g (2 stalks)

2）Black Astragalus Root/北芪 - 7g (2 pieces)

3) Red Dates/红枣 - 2g (10 pieces)

4) Wolf berries/枸杞子 - 15g

5) Szechwan Lovage Rhizom/川芎 - 5g (3 pieces)

6) Chinese dried yam/淮山 - 20g

7) Tuckahoe/茯苓 - 20g

8) Fragrant solomon seal rhizome/玉竹 - 50g

9) Cordycep flowers/虫草花 - 5g


Directions：
1) Rinse all the ingredients (except wolfberry) with water.
2) If your red dates have seeds, remove seeds to reduce the heat properties.

3) Boil the small chicken for 5 minutes to remove the oil. Pour away the water and put the chicken aside.
4) Pour 4 bowls of water (amount of water depends on desired concentration) into the pot and bring to boil.
5) Add in the ingredients together with the chicken (without wolfberry) and a tablespoon of salt when the water starts to boil.
6) Boil for 1/2 hour.
7) 5 mins before the 1/2 hour is up, add in the wolfberry. The soup is ready to be served.