Girls often eat "four drugs decoction" soup with added motherwort and other herbs to "open up the body's conduits" and stimulate the secretion of growth hormones. Boys are given herbal decoctions designed to stimulate adrenaline secretion.
女生多是吃四物湯，或再加益母草、含殼草，以通經絡、促進生長激素分泌；男生則以龍眼根、小金櫻、黑面麻、九層塔等藥為主，以促進腎上腺分泌。