ABSTRACT
Many medicinal effects involving the use of chicken meat have been recorded and passed down from generation to generation. These formulations have been tested through experience and common knowledge, and even though there has been no scientific testing, the formulations have been proven to work. For example:
(1) Chicken and wine cooked together is useful for treating a cough. (2) Chicken and beans cooked together is beneficial for curing edema. (3) The male chicken cooked with wine is beneficial for old-age weaknesses. (4) The hen and some Chinese herbs cooked together will cure arthritis, dizzi
ness, etc. (5) Broth from the stewed spent hen and old ginger increases the strength of
postnatal women.
