The below recipe is taken from Nick Dalton-Brewer’s Increasing IVF Success with Acupuncture in which he aims to teach acupuncturists the main tools needed for treating patients with fertility problems. The following extract can be given to patients alongside other useful tips in the book.
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Blood-forming foods
Women need blood-forming foods (blood is the mother of energy), and this is particularly necessary when it comes to fertility treatment. From a TCM point of view, blood-forming foods include carrots, beetroot, meat such as beef and chicken, dark leafy greens and oily fish. For IVF patients a good chicken soup is a very useful supplement. All ingredients should be organic where possible. At the very least the chicken needs to be organic, since the soup will be drawing out essences from the bones.
Ritmeyer Family Chicken Soup
1 whole chicken
12–16 cups of water
2 onions
3 carrots
1 parsnip
1 turnip/swede
3 celery sticks
1 bunch of parsley
Chicken stock
1 bunch of dill
1 large knob of ginger
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2 garlic cloves
Salt and pepper
1. Wash the chicken and put it into a large saucepan. Add vegetables to the pan. Add water and stock cubes. Tie the herbs in a bunch together and add to pan. Season as required.
2. Cover the pan and bring to the boil. Immediately lower the heat and simmer. Skim the scum off the top and discard.
3. Simmer for two hours.
4. Remove the chicken and divide into pieces.
5. Strain the stock and return as much as needed to the pan. Keep it simmering.
6. Return chicken to pan and add ginger, and other ingredients if required. Simmer for another hour.
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