Wu Wenbo Shijiazhuang Traditional Chinese Medicine Hospital of Hebei Province
In 2018, 9 new Chinese herbal medicine substances were added as a list of both food and Chinese medicinal materials according to tradition: ginseng, cistanche, dendrobium officinale, American ginseng, astragalus, ganoderma lucidum, gastrodia, dogwood, eucommia leaf, within the limited scope of use and dosage as medicinal and food dual use. The dosage is 10 to 15g decoction.
Cistanche
Cistanche is a scaly, succulent stem of the family Lydanaceae. It is mainly produced in Inner Mongolia, Gansu, Xinjiang, Qinghai and other places. In the spring, the seedlings are dug up when they are not born or have just emerged, and the inflorescences are removed. Slice raw, or wine-based. It tastes sweet, salty and warm. Return to the kidneys, large intestine meridians. It has the function of tonifying the kidneys and helping the yang, moisturizing the intestines and laxatives.
Indications: (1) Kidney and yang deficiency, impotence and premature ejaculation due to insufficient sperm and blood, infertility of uterine cold, waist and knee pain, and weakness. (2) Intestinal dryness and constipation. "Shennong Materia Medica": "The Lord's five labors and seven wounds, make up for the middle, remove the cold and heat pain in the stem, nourish the five internal organs, strengthen the yin, improve the essence, have many children, women, and serve lightly for a long time." ”
Use caution: Yin deficiency fire and stool diarrhea should not be taken. Gastrointestinal heat, constipation knots are also not suitable for taking.
Cistanche with medicinal food, medicinal tea, medicinal wine
Cistanche is a natural health supplement that nourishes the body and can also be medicated to treat some diseases. Fresh cistanche is rich in juice and has a faint sweetness, which can be eaten raw like a fruit, and can also be brewed, fried, tea, cooked, stewed, soup, etc.
Soup
After the water is soaked and soft, slice or shredded or cistanche powder and put in at the right time to make various soups.
Soak the wine
Put cistanche into wine, soak it all in wine, seal it for seven to fifteen days, and drink it 10 to 30 ml a day.
Stew
When stewing livestock, poultry and fish, put 20 grams per kilogram, which has a good health effect. Such as chicken stew cistanche.
Tea
Cistanche can be brewed in tea or directly soaked in water to drink, daily consumption, good health effect. Often supplemented tea drinking, can supplement the kidneys and nourish the face, radiant, energetic. Such as cistanche tea (cistanche 5g, black tea 3g), and then such as cassia cistanche honey tea (laxative)
Cistanche medicinal food
Cistanche lamb porridge: Put the cistanche (15 grams) into a casserole dish, add an appropriate amount of water, boil for 30 minutes, remove the residue and leave the juice. Add japonica rice, salt, green onion, ginger, boil over low heat, and then simmer for 35 minutes. It is used to treat cold pain in the waist and knees, weak muscles and bones, and constipation knots.
Cistanche soup:
Scrape off the scales of the cistanche (15 grams), wash it with wine, remove the black juice, cut into thin slices, sweet potatoes and lamb after washing, cut into thin slices, put them in the pot, add ginger slices and water to an appropriate amount, first boil over low heat, then fry for 35 minutes on low heat, add green onions and salt. It is used to treat kidney and yang deficiency, insufficient liver blood, low back pain, dizziness, tinnitus.
