Benefiting qi and astringing sweat

★ Astragalus membranaceus is sweet, slightly warm, and enters lung, spleen, liver and kidney meridians. It has the effects of invigorating qi, consolidating exterior, astringing sweat, promoting granulation, promoting diuresis and reducing swelling.

★ It can be used to treat qi deficiency, mental fatigue, pallor, shortness of breath, discomfort of middle qi, chronic diarrhea, proctoptosis, spontaneous sweating due to exterior deficiency, blood deficiency and sallow, and internal heat to quench thirst.

★ Modern medicine shows that Astragalus has the functions of enhancing immune function, protecting liver, inducing diuresis, lowering blood pressure and resisting bacteria.

★ It can also reduce proteinuria in experimental nephritis, enhance myocardial contractility and regulate blood sugar content.

Chef Xu recommended: Drink Radix Astragali and Radix Codonopsis chicken soup due to qi deficiency.

★ Cook with half a chicken and 12 Radix Astragali and Radix Codonopsis;

★ It is best to choose a casserole when cooking, because the casserole is breathable and can make the soup more delicious.

jujube

nourishing the blood and tranquilization

★ Jujube is sweet in taste and warm in nature, belonging to the spleen and stomach meridian, and has the effects of tonifying the middle energizer, nourishing the blood and calming the nerves, and relieving exterior symptoms.

★ Jujube can be eaten raw or processed, and the most common is boiled.

red bean shrub

Detumescence and diuresis

★ Adzuki bean is flat, sweet and sour, and has the effects of promoting blood circulation, enriching blood, invigorating spleen, eliminating dampness, diuresis and detumescence. It is mainly used to treat abdominal distension, edema of lower limbs and dysuria, and can promote milk circulation, which is a good medicine to promote lower body moisture.

★ Adzuki bean also has diuretic effect, which is beneficial to patients with heart disease, kidney disease and edema. At the same time, it is rich in folic acid, which has the functions of promoting lactation, relaxing bowels, lowering blood pressure, preventing calculus, building body and losing weight.

★ adzuki beans are mainly used in Chinese herbal medicines, and are often mixed with red beans, but there are differences between them: adzuki beans are slender and slightly flat, while red beans are round; Red beans are not easy to rot after cooking and have a hard texture. Red beans rot easily when cooked, and are often used to make bean paste.

coix seed

Strengthening spleen and promoting diuresis

★ Coix seed is cool, sweet and light, and enters the spleen, lung and kidney meridians. Has diuretic, spleen invigorating, arthralgia relieving, heat clearing and pus expelling effects, and can be used for treating rheumatic body pain, damp-heat muscle spasm, damp arthralgia, edema, etc.

★ Coix seed ester, the main component of Coix seed, has anticancer effect and can be used for gastric cancer and cervical cancer;

★ Rich in nutrition, it is a good medicated diet for the infirm after a long illness, the recovered patients, the elderly, parturients and children. Whether it is used for nourishing or treating diseases, the effect is very mild, slight cold does not hurt the stomach, and spleen is not nourishing.

dendrobium

Nourishing yin and clearing heat

★ Dendrobium, sweet in nature and slightly cold, enters the stomach and kidney meridian, which is beneficial to the stomach to produce fluid, nourish yin and clear heat;

In addition, it can improve eyesight, harmonize yin and yang, strengthen yang, tonify kidney and beauty beauty, thus achieving the effects of health care and longevity. ;

★ It is also rich in more than ten kinds of alkaloids such as polysaccharide, amino acid, dendrobine and dendrobine. , can effectively improve the immune function of the body and the level of superoxide dismutase in the human body, and is suitable for people with excessive alcohol and tobacco and weak constitution.

Use it to cook soup with Lycium barbarum, Adenophora adenophora, Ophiopogon japonicus and Polygonatum sibiricum, which has a good nourishing effect on yin deficiency constitution.

Remember the secret of making soup!

Medicinal materials and soup

Cooking together!

★ First of all, the medicinal materials need to be soaked for 1-2 hours after cleaning, which makes it easier to dissolve out the drug effect;

★ When making soup, the soaked herbs should be poured into the pot together with the soup, and the time for adding herbs is different. Most of them should be put at the beginning, and a few herbs should be put at the back.