Edible method of golden cicada flower
1, golden cicada flower soaked in water
Practice: Take about 2-3 cicada flowers, put them in a container and soak them in cold water until they become soft. Remove the shell and hard shell of the worm, keep the worm and mycelium, and wash. Inject a proper amount of water, steam (or boil) for about 40 minutes, and the steamed (or boiled) soup can be eaten. Inject fresh water again and steam (or boil) for 40 minutes. Soup can be eaten with worms and mycelium. Take it once every morning and evening.
2, golden cicada flower old duck soup
Ingredients: 5-8 golden cicadas, half old duck, 4-5 slices of ginger, a little cooking wine and a little salt.
Practice: Wash and drain the golden cicada flower for later use. Wash the old duck and cut it into pieces for use. Put the cicada flower, the old duck and the ginger slices into a casserole, add a proper amount of cooking wine to purify the water, simmer for more than 3 hours, and add a proper amount of salt when eating.
Function: nourishing yin and clearing heat, tonifying kidney and replenishing essence.
3. Golden Cicada Chicken Soup
Ingredients: 5-8 golden cicadas, half native chicken, 6 red dates, 2 slices of ginger, cooking wine and a little salt.
Practice: Wash and drain the golden cicada flower for later use. Wash the chicken and cut it into pieces. Add appropriate amount of purified water to cicada flower, native chicken, ham slice and ginger slice, stew for 3-5 hours with low fire, and add appropriate amount of salt when eating.
Functions: strengthening yang, tonifying kidney and replenishing essence.
4. Golden cicada porridge
Ingredients: 5 g of cicada flower, 3 g of poria cocos, 3 g of Ophiopogon japonicus, 80 g of black rice, and 0/5 g of sugar/kloc-.
Practice: follow the general porridge cooking method.
Application: hyperlipidemia, hypercholesterolemia, coronary heart disease, senile edema.
Efficacy and function of cicada flower
Studies at home and abroad show that cicada has multiple effects of improving immunity, resisting fatigue, protecting kidney, improving sleep, resisting tumor, protecting liver, resisting radiation and improving eyesight. It is a magical and ancient Chinese medicine. Cicada can be used as a substitute for Cordyceps sinensis, and it can also nourish and preserve health.
1, nourishing effect
The results showed that the amino acids in cicada flower were similar to those in many kinds of Cordyceps sinensis, and the content was the same. Scholars believe that a variety of amino acids are one of the material bases for nourishing and strengthening, and pharmacological experiments have also proved that amino acids of cicada flower and various cordyceps have different degrees of nourishing effects.
2. Anti-fatigue effect
The water decoction of golden cicada flower can obviously prolong the swimming time of experimental mice and significantly improve the survival time of mice under normal pressure and high temperature, which proves that golden cicada flower has anti-fatigue and anti-stress effects.
3. Hypnotic effect
After 65438±00min administration, the number of spontaneous activities in the cicada flower group was significantly less than that in the control group, and the cicada flower could obviously prolong the sleep time of mice and shorten the disappearance time of pentobarbital sodium righting reflex. Cicada can also increase the sleep rate of mice in unit time. This proves that cicada flower has a good sedative and hypnotic effect.
4. analgesic effect
Cicada has obvious cooling effect on normal and artificially heated rats within 2 hours after administration. The results of writhing method and hot plate method show that cicada flower has a very significant inhibitory effect on chemical and burning stimulation pain in mice. This proves that cicada flower has a good antipyretic and analgesic effect.
5. Immune function
Taking Cordyceps polysaccharide as positive control, Grifola frondosa polysaccharide reference test, mouse lymphocyte transformation test, Ea and E rose test, and specific immune rose test (macrophage phagocytosis test, anti-sheep red blood cell (SRBC) antibody titer test), the results showed that Grifola frondosa polysaccharide had obvious effect on improving immune function. In addition, the cicada flower also has the functions of reducing blood and urine creatinine, improving endogenous creatinine clearance rate, increasing serum protein content and reducing urinary protein excretion. Therefore, it is effective for patients with chronic renal insufficiency in the early and middle stages. Further research confirmed that cicada flower has a good effect on tubulointerstitial lesions, which can protect renal tubular cells Na+-K+-ATPase, reduce lysosomal injury and lipid peroxidation, improve renal hemodynamics, and reduce endothelial cell injury and coagulation function. Therefore, cicada flower can improve renal function.