Polygonatum Heart

[Raw Materials] Polygonatum 50 grams, pig heart 500 grams, ginger, scallion, Sichuan pepper, salt, sugar, monosodium glutamate, sesame oil, as needed.
[Preparation] 1. Wash polygonatum, cut into segments, moisten slightly with water, decoct twice, collect 800 grams of liquid. 2. Split and wash pig heart thoroughly to remove blood, place with decoction, ginger, scallion, and Sichuan pepper in a pot, simmer over medium heat until heart is about 60% cooked, then remove and cool. 3. Place cooled heart in a brine pot, simmer over low heat until fully cooked, wipe off foam. Add brine, salt, sugar, MSG, and sesame oil to the pot, heat until thickened, then evenly coat the inside and outside of the heart.
[Usage] Consume twice daily, as part of meals.
[Benefits] Calms the spirit, soothes the heart, nourishes yin, generates body fluids.
[Indications] Coronary heart disease, arrhythmia, dry cough and thirst due to heat damage to body fluids.
[Note] Polygonatum is sweet, mild, and moistening; it nourishes yin, moistens lungs, generates fluids, and treats dryness and heat from lung and stomach yin deficiency. Though its effects are gentle, it does not cloy or trap pathogens. It is effective for dry cough with sticky phlegm, chronic cough due to yin deficiency, and also for feverish cough due to yin deficiency with external pathogen invasion, sore throat, thirst, gastric yin injury with dry tongue and poor appetite, and diabetes. However, due to its slow action, larger doses are recommended.