Recipe Analysis of Spicy Pumpkin Soup

Spicy Pumpkin Soup

recipe: Soup

Cooking Instructions: In a medium or large rice cooker add 4 to 6 cups of raw pumpkin and cover with plenty of water. Add 1 lb of cooked shredded chicken. Add 16-24 whole cloves, salt to taste, and about 1/2 teaspoon of cinnamon. Cook for 2-3 hours until the pumpkin cooks down and turns to mush and most of the water has evaporated, to form a thick soup. Garnish with a few sliced green onions.

Treats Eastern: An excellent recipe to expel interior cold that may have accumulated in the muscle layers. Good to warm the interior while transitioning from late fall into winter. Spicy pumpkin soup tonifes spleen blood, and resolves phlegm and dampness in the spleen. It strongly tonifies spleen and lung qi. It also helps to clear phlegm from the lungs..

Treats Western: cold in muscles, feeling cold inside

Recipe ID: 333
Special Category: Paleo
Special Tags: Soup,
Submitted by: Justin hays from Dallas, Texas
Date Submitted: 10/9/2025
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Ingredients:

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Note: Temperature is determined by assigning a value from -2 to 2, where -2 is cold, -1 is cool, 0 is neutral, 1 is warm, and 2 is hot. The final temperature analysis / breakdown reflects the average temperature of all ingredients that affect the channel, multplied by the percentage of ingredients that affect the channel.

# Ingredients: 14

Temperature:

COLD x1
COOL x1
WARM x12

Flavors:

AROMATIC x1
SWEET x11
BITTER x7
SALTY x1
PUNGENT x3

Tonifies:

QI x8
BLOOD x2
YIN x1
YANG x2
JING x2

Regulates:

QI x1
BLOOD x9
COLD x12
HEAT x2
DAMP x8
WATER x2
TOXINS x2
WIND x2
PHLEGM x7
SPIRIT x1
SWELLING x1
BI x3

Tai Yin Channels:

Pumpkin(6), Gui Zhi(1), Cong Bai(1), Lung: 57.1% (8/14)
Warm (0.57) WARM x8 TONIFY QI x6 TONIFY YANG x1	REGULATE BLOOD x6 REGULATE COLD x8 DAMP x7 WATER x1 TOXINS x1 WIND x2 PHLEGM x7 SWELLING x1 BI x1

Pumpkin(6), Chicken(2), Clove(1), Salt(1), Celery(1), Butter(1), Spleen: 85.7% (12/14)
Slightly Warm (0.50) COLD x1 COOL x1 WARM x10 TONIFY QI x8 TONIFY BLOOD x2 TONIFY YIN x1 TONIFY YANG x1 TONIFY JING x2	REGULATE QI x1 REGULATE BLOOD x9 REGULATE COLD x10 REGULATE HEAT x2 DAMP x7 WATER x1 TOXINS x1 PHLEGM x6 SPIRIT x1 BI x2

Yang Ming Channels:

Pumpkin(6), Salt(1), Large Intestine: 50.0% (7/14)
Slightly Warm (0.29) COLD x1 WARM x6 TONIFY QI x6	REGULATE BLOOD x6 REGULATE COLD x6 REGULATE HEAT x1 DAMP x6 TOXINS x1 PHLEGM x6

Pumpkin(6), Chicken(2), Clove(1), Salt(1), Cong Bai(1), Celery(1), Butter(1), Stomach: 92.9% (13/14)
Warm (0.57) COLD x1 COOL x1 WARM x11 TONIFY QI x8 TONIFY BLOOD x2 TONIFY YIN x1 TONIFY YANG x1 TONIFY JING x2	REGULATE QI x1 REGULATE BLOOD x9 REGULATE COLD x11 REGULATE HEAT x2 DAMP x7 WATER x1 TOXINS x2 WIND x1 PHLEGM x6 SPIRIT x1 SWELLING x1 BI x2

Shao Yin Channels:

Gui Zhi(1), Heart: 7.1% (1/14)
Slightly Warm (0.07) WARM x1 TONIFY YANG x1	REGULATE COLD x1 DAMP x1 WATER x1 WIND x1 PHLEGM x1 BI x1

Chicken(2), Clove(1), Salt(1), Celery(1), Kidney: 35.7% (5/14)
Neutral (0.00) COLD x1 COOL x1 WARM x3 TONIFY QI x2 TONIFY BLOOD x2 TONIFY YANG x1 TONIFY JING x2	REGULATE QI x1 REGULATE BLOOD x2 REGULATE COLD x3 REGULATE HEAT x2 DAMP x1 WATER x1 TOXINS x1 SPIRIT x1 BI x2

Tai Yang Channels:

Salt(1), Small Intestine: 7.1% (1/14)
Slightly Cool (-0.14) COLD x1	REGULATE HEAT x1 TOXINS x1

Gui Zhi(1), Celery(1), Bladder: 14.3% (2/14)
Neutral (0.00) COOL x1 WARM x1 TONIFY YANG x1	REGULATE COLD x1 REGULATE HEAT x1 DAMP x2 WATER x2 WIND x1 PHLEGM x1 SPIRIT x1 BI x1

Jue Yin Channels:

Pericardium: 0% (0/14)
NOT AFFECTED

San Jiao: 0% (0/14)
NOT AFFECTED

Shao Yang Channels:

Celery(1), Liver: 7.1% (1/14)
Slightly Cool (-0.07) COOL x1	REGULATE HEAT x1 DAMP x1 WATER x1 SPIRIT x1

Gallbladder: 0% (0/14)
NOT AFFECTED

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This Recipe contains elements of the following Recipes:

Spicy Pumpkin Soup

recipe: Soup

Ingredients:

# Ingredients: 14

Channels Entered:

Temperature:

Flavors:

Tonifies:

Regulates:

Tai Yin Channels:

Lung: 57.1% (8/14)

Spleen: 85.7% (12/14)

Yang Ming Channels:

Large Intestine: 50.0% (7/14)

Stomach: 92.9% (13/14)

Shao Yin Channels:

Heart: 7.1% (1/14)

Kidney: 35.7% (5/14)

Tai Yang Channels:

Small Intestine: 7.1% (1/14)

Bladder: 14.3% (2/14)

Jue Yin Channels:

Pericardium: 0% (0/14)

San Jiao: 0% (0/14)

Shao Yang Channels:

Liver: 7.1% (1/14)

Gallbladder: 0% (0/14)