Bazhen cake is one of the traditional famous points of the Han nationality in Shaoxing, Zhejiang Province, with a long history. Has the effects of invigorating middle warmer, invigorating qi, stimulating appetite, invigorating spleen, fattening children, and eliminating malnutrition. The traditional Chinese medicine Bazhen cake is prepared from 60g of Radix Codonopsis (removing reed), 60g of Poria, 60g of Atractylodis Macrocephala, 60g of lentils, 60g of lotus seed meat, 60g of raw Coix seed, 60g of raw yam, 60g of gordon euryales, 3kg of white rice flour, 2.4kg of white sugar and 3kg of glutinous rice flour, which are ground into fine powder and steamed. Take 15g each time, twice a day, and take it with warm water, which has the effect of strengthening the spleen and nourishing the stomach.
Bazhen cake is divided into "eight treasures for men" and "eight treasures for women". The eight-treasure cake used by Cixi is "female eight treasures", which was changed from "male eight treasures" during the Qianlong period. "Men's eight-treasure cake" is an original eight-treasure cake, which can be divided into two types: invigorating spleen, eliminating food stagnation and invigorating vitality.
As we all know, Gan Long is a very knowledgeable person, and he pays attention to health preservation. This Bazhen cake is actually a small medicine for daily maintenance. The basic prescription is: Poria cocos, white lentils, lotus seed meat, coix seed, yam and Euryale euryales. The other two medicinal materials of Bazhen cake that Qianlong ate when he was young were hawthorn and malt, with the purpose of promoting digestion and resolving stagnation. When you are old, in order to keep fit, you should use ginseng and codonopsis pilosula instead of these two flavors.
Historical sources:
One day in September of the sixth year of Guangxu in Qing Dynasty, Empress Dowager Cixi fell ill in the palace because of her greasy food. She has no appetite, indigestion, abdominal distension, nausea and vomiting, loose stool and depression. The doctors are worried. Doctor Tai led many doctors to consult "Lafayette". It is believed that the disease is caused by weakness of the spleen and stomach. After discussion by many doctors, it is believed that Galeries Lafayette needs to tonify the spleen and stomach. Eight prescriptions are both food and medicine: Poria cocos, Euryale euryales, lotus seeds, Coix seed, yam, lentils, malt and lotus root starch, which are ground into fine powder and mixed with water to make a cake, named "Jianpi cake".
After eating this cake for a few days, the symptoms of "Lafayette" completely disappeared, the appetite increased greatly, and the whole body became strong. "Galeries Lafayette" changed the name of "Jianpi Cake" to "Bazhen Cake" as soon as he was happy. Since then, "Bazhen cake" has become Cixi's favorite food. No matter whether she is sick or not, she always asks the chef to cook "eight-treasure cakes" for her to eat.
Conclusion Most people are concerned about health preservation now, and health preservation has become a hot spot that people pay more and more attention to. Bazhen cake is a famous Chinese medicine diet prescription, which has many curative effects, is beneficial and harmless, and can be used by men, women and children. People who pay attention to health should not miss it.