Dietary therapy for preventing and treating benign prostatic hyperplasia (Part 2): Tremella soup, bone marrow-tonifying soup, dog meat yang-tonifying soup, etc.

**(4) Tremella Soup**

**Ingredients:** 12g of white fungus, 1500ml of chicken broth, cooking wine and pepper to taste.

**Preparation:** Soak the white fungus in warm water until softened; pour chicken broth into a clean, oil-free pot, add salt and seasonings.

Boil the wine and pepper, then add the white fungus and steam over high heat until the white fungus softens.

Once the flavors have melded, remove from the heat, add MSG to taste, and it's ready to serve.

**Directions for use:** Drink the soup and eat the white fungus.

**Efficacy:** Invigorates Qi and promotes urination. Suitable for benign prostatic hyperplasia (BPH).

(5 **)** **Supplement** **Marrow** **Soup**

**Ingredients:** 1 turtle, 200g pork spinal cord, and appropriate seasonings.

**Preparation Method:** Scald the turtle with boiling water to kill it, remove the shell, and remove the internal organs.

Place the turtle head and claws into an aluminum pot, add ginger, scallions, and pepper, bring to a boil over high heat, then reduce to a simmer and cook the turtle meat.

Add the cleaned pork spinal cord, cook until done, then add MSG and it's ready.

**Directions for use:** Eat the meat and drink the soup. It can be eaten with meals and should be consumed regularly.

**Efficacy:** Suitable for benign prostatic hyperplasia due to kidney yin deficiency.

**(6) Dog Meat Soup for Nourishing Yang**

**Ingredients:** 500g dog meat, appropriate amounts of red chili peppers, ginger, orange peel, Sichuan peppercorns, and salt.

**Preparation:** Wash the dog meat and cut it into chunks. Place it in a pot, add an appropriate amount of water, and then add chili peppers.

Simmer ginger, orange peel, and Sichuan peppercorns over low heat until tender, then add salt to taste.

**Dosage:** Eat the meat and drink the soup. Once daily, for 7 days as one course of treatment.

**Efficacy:** Warms and tonifies kidney yang. Can be used as an adjunct treatment for benign prostatic hyperplasia due to kidney yang deficiency.

**(7) Flavored Green Duck Soup**

**Ingredients:** 1 green-headed duck, 30g each of Codonopsis pilosula and Astragalus membranaceus, 15g each of Cimicifuga foetida and Bupleurum chinense, and appropriate amount of salt.

Preparation: First, slaughter the duck, remove the feathers, gut it, and wash it thoroughly. Then, prepare the above four herbs...

Crush the ingredients, wrap them in gauze, stuff them into the cleaned duck cavity, place the duck in a pot, and add an appropriate amount of water.

Cook until the duck meat is thoroughly cooked, then add salt to taste. **Directions:** Drink the soup and eat the duck meat. Take on an empty stomach.

Efficacy: Tonifies the spleen and stomach, raises yang and promotes diuresis. Suitable for benign prostatic hyperplasia (BPH) due to qi deficiency and sinking.

Symptoms include difficulty urinating, lower abdominal distension, inability to urinate, fatigue, lethargy, and poor appetite.

**(8) Kidney-Nourishing Soup**

**Ingredients:** 1 pair of lamb kidneys, 10g each of scallions and ginger, 500g of mallow seeds, salt, and seasoning.

Appropriate amounts of each ingredient.

Preparation: Wash the sheep kidneys, remove the fascia, chop finely, add scallions and raw vegetables.

Boil ginger and water until cooked, then season with salt and MSG, and add stir-fried winter melon seeds.

**Dosage:** Take as desired.

**Efficacy:** Tonifies the kidneys and promotes urination. Suitable for urinary retention due to insufficient kidney qi, with symptoms including pale complexion, lower back and knee pain.

Symptoms include soreness, weakness, and difficulty urinating.

**(9) Amomum villosum and lamb offal soup**

**Ingredients:** 500g mutton, 1 sheep lung, 1 sheep stomach, 250g mushrooms, 5g cardamom.

One serving of galangal, 6 grams of ginger, 15 grams of pepper powder, 500 grams of wheat flour, 500 grams of sunflower greens, and appropriate amounts of scallions, salt, and vinegar.

**Preparation:** First, simmer mutton, cardamom, and galangal to make a broth. Then, in a separate pot, add the cooked mutton tripe and mutton...

Finely chop the lungs and mushrooms and add them to the soup, along with pepper, mallow, scallions, salt, and vinegar.

Make a soup. Separately, make thin noodles from wheat flour, cook them, and mix them with this soup.

**Dosage:** Consume as needed.

**Efficacy:** Regulates Qi and promotes urination, warms the middle Jiao and dispels cold, moistens the lungs and tonifies the kidneys. Suitable for urinary retention due to deficiency and cold.

This formula combines tonifying and purging properties, and can treat urinary retention caused by imbalances in the qi transformation of the spleen, lungs, and kidneys.