Chicken Soup for my SOUL

I don't know how this would turn out and its my first time getting it done,
but I'll share my chap-a-lang (all in) recipe that comes with step by step instructions and pictures
SO this is what you'll need:

A pot half filled with water (Stock pot)
Carrots (optional)
Salt (for taste)
1 Whole chicken (cut into 6 or more pieces)
Ginseng
Seasame oil
Assorted herbs, you can just get a pack of these, which includes:

• Wolfberries
• Ginseng
• Chinese Angelica root
• Astraglus root
• Pilrose Asiabell root
• Chinese Yam
• Red dates

(some of these I bought individually and added them in as well, I'm not going to put measurements cause it depends how much you wanna make, or you could just eyeball it! NOTE: if you don't like the bitter taste in chinese herbs, put less of the bitter tasting herbs like ginseng)

So here goes!

Take a Stock Pot, rinse it, HYGIENE people! Fill it to half full, my pot is pretty big so I'll need more ingredients and bring this water to a boil. While it sits to boil, read on...

While your water is bringing itself to a boil, prepare your herbs.
Open the packages of herbs, take them out, decide how much you wanna use
Rise them in cold water, to get rid of particles or dust on them

Then soak them for bout 10mins (just to get them to be soft)
Once your water is boiling, you throw in all your herbs, ginger, seasame oil and add salt for taste

*oh dear, as you can see, I totally forgot about my carrot, well I wanted a little more sweetness and got myself a carrot, so while preparing the herbs you should have also cut up your carrot, another good ingredient to add is corn and lotus root if you like and dump them in together with the herbs...

AND you sit and wait for about 2-5 hours on low heat, for these soups the longer the better (my opinion)
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Add Chicken pieces to the soup, bones and all for another 1.5 hours on medium heat and let seat for another hour on low heat

Soup is now ready to be served
For better taste, I suggest leaving it there for a couple more hours and heating the soup up again!
I really enjoy the bitter, and herbal smell of Chinese soups,
Serve with rice and you're ready for a meal (:
GO GO try it and tell me if you made it and how it taste!

To be honest, there are some herbs that I've mentioned above that I don't quite like, feel free to not include those!

Verdict: I've got good comments on them but i felt like I could have made more soup with the ingredients I had thrown in (: