If you experience frequent stress, tend to hold your feelings to yourself, battle with PMS symptoms, have a nervous stomach, and/or catch yourself sighing, chances are you have what we call “Liver qi stagnation” in Chinese medicine. Symptoms of Liver qi stagnation include: frustration, easily angered, tenderness of distended feeling below the ribcage or chest, feeling of a lump in the throat, PMS, breast tenderness, irregular periods, painful periods, lumps in the breast or groin area, digestive problems triggered by stress, belching, frequent sighing.
This awesome soup helps to move stagnant Liver qi, making you feel calmer, and the area below your ribcage relaxed. The wonderful flavors or marjarom, coriander and tumeric are also the best herbs/spices to benefit the liver. Leafy greens are especially beneficial for liver conditions as well. You can make this recipe vegan/vegetarian by omitting the shrimp and adding in a few extra handfuls of kale. The best time for women to eat this soup is mid-cycle when PMS symptoms begin to appear.
