Mix-frying with honey

Stir-frying with honey. Honey is sweet in flavor and balanced in nature. It moderates tension, boosts the origin, moistens the lung and calms cough, resolves toxin, and improves the flavor. It can reduce excessively pronounced qualities of other medicinals and can harmonize the various medicinals in a formula and improve their effectiveness. Mix-frying with honey helps to moisten the lung and relieve cough, to boost and nourish, and to right the excessively pronounced natures of medicinals such as aster (Asteris Radix, 紫菀 zǐ wǎn) and astragalus (Astragali Radix, 黄芪 huáng qí).

Method The materials are first blended with honey, and then stir-fried in a heated wok, sprinkling water to help the honey to spread evenly.