Ginseng Soup Recipe

Ingredients:
One cut up medium sized ginseng (you can have the  herbalist cut these up for you)
About a handful (1/4 cup) of Goji (wolfberries)
3 pieces of Huai San ( Chinese wild yam)
8 large dried dates (fresh dried dates)
2 dried sweet dates (these are brownish covered with sugar)
1/4 cup of Dried longans
2 tbsp salt (add more or less for your own taste buds)

One whole black chicken

My mom uses a clay pot to make this soup.  She would first boil a pot of hot water (don't just get hot water from the sink).  Put all the ingredients into the clay pot, add the boiling water and set the clay pot to cook.  Let it cook for about five hours, although my mother might let it cook longer.