01.15.06

IMMUNE SOUP

Posted in Five Steps of Health, Recipes at 4:05 pm by drcribben

Immune Soup – Recipehealth soup
 

Happy Sunday everyone!

As it is Sunday (a day of rest for most of us), I thought maybe a nice recipe to warm up the winter blues (sniffles or cold anyone?) and give our immune system a good boost.  This recipe came from a book I have by Stephen Harrod Buhner called Herbal Antibiotics and he gives credit to Andrew Weil’s recipe found in his book Eight Weeks To Optimum Health.  I wish to give both gentlemen credit as I love this tasty (really potent) soup and the recipe is as follows:

  • 8 cups (237 ml) water
  • 1 tablespoon (15 ml) olive oil
  • 1 onion, diced
  • 1 bulb garlic (at least 10 cloves), minced
  • One 1 ½-inch (3 ½-cm) piece of fresh gingerroot, grated
  • 1 ½ cups salted vege-broth powder (find at:  www.trinityherb.com)  

           (or vegetable soup stock, if desired)

  • 5 pieces sliced dried astragalus root
  • 2 cups fresh, sliced shiitake mushrooms

           (or 1 cup dried)

  • 1 large reishi mushroom
  • Cayenne powder, if desired

  1. Bring water to boil in large pot.
  2. Heat olive oil, sauté garlic, onions and ginger until soft and aromatic.  Add contents of skillet to water.  Add vegebroth powder, shiitake, astragalus, and reishi.  Simmer covered two hours.
  3. Remove from heat, allow to sit for two more hours.
  4. Remove astragalus and reishi mushroom.  Reheat.
  5. Add salt and pepper to taste, and cayenne powder if desired (just enough so that it just brings out a light sweat).

There you have it.  Bon-appetit! 

                                               Your health advocate,

                                                Dr. Laurie