Traditional Chinese medicine believes that Astragalus membranaceus is sweet and slightly warm, and enters the spleen and lung meridians, which has the functions of invigorating qi and rising yang, strengthening exterior surface and stopping sweating, inducing diuresis to reduce swelling, supporting toxin and promoting granulation. This product is the best of all kinds of tonics, and it is a well-known tonic. "Compendium of Materia Medica" says that "weariness leads to growth, and the yellow color of radix astragali is the growth of tonic, hence the name". Astragalus membranaceus is an important clinical tonic, which is listed as "top grade" medicine in Benjing, saying that it "supplements deficiency and causes all kinds of diseases in children". "Bielu" said that "the husband is insufficient, benefiting qi and nourishing yin." "Rihuazi Materia Medica" says that "it helps qi to grow bones and muscles, grow meat and enrich blood". Compendium of Materia Medica records that it can be used for all internal injuries caused by fatigue, diarrhea due to spleen deficiency, organ prolapse, blood loss due to qi deficiency, and metrorrhagia and metrorrhagia of women.

Practice editing

When making astragalus porridge, you should pay attention to the fact that astragalus itself is not edible. Astragalus membranaceus should be boiled into medicinal juice by the method of "three frying and three boiling" in traditional Chinese medicine. Use this medicine juice to cook porridge with rice.

Step 1: Take about 30 grams of Astragalus membranaceus, soak it in 10 times of water for half an hour, add water to boil it, cook it for 30 minutes on medium fire, and pour out the medicine juice for later use.

Step 2, add the same amount of water to boil, then boil for 15 minutes, and then pour out the medicine juice.

Step three, repeat step two.

Step four, take out the boiled astragalus dregs and throw them away. Put the three decoctions together, add about100g of rice, and cook into porridge.

Astragalus porridge has a strong qi-lifting effect and is most suitable for drinking in the morning. After drinking it, you will be full of energy all day.

In this porridge recipe, the amount of astragalus is not much, and it is very peaceful with rice, which belongs to flat supplement. Most people can eat a little in summer and rainy season. Friends with qi deficiency and weak constitution will insist on drinking astragalus porridge every day in dog days, which can improve qi and blood and enhance immunity, so that they are not easy to get sick in autumn and winter.

Summer heat and dampness hurt qi in dog days, and astragalus was used to correct it at that time. It's too hot in the dog days, which often makes people feel lazy and don't want to talk or move more. Some people are overweight, dizzy, sweaty and have fever in their hands and feet. There are leg swelling, constipation and so on. These symptoms require astragalus membranaceus.

Note: Astragalus porridge is a tonic, and empirical evidence is not suitable. Patients with weak constitution, middle-aged qi deficiency, middle-aged and elderly people, initial recovery from serious illness, surgery and radiotherapy and chemotherapy can eat more. Those with yin deficiency and hyperactivity of yang and those with exogenous evil should not take it. For example, if you have a cold and feel cold today, it means that you have exterior evil, so don't drink astragalus porridge these two days.

Having said that, I want to clarify a misunderstanding for you. Many people often don't know whether to take tonics, whether to take tonics or not, and blindly take tonics. Some people are thin, so they think they should take more supplements. Some people are obese and feel that they should take more detoxification drugs, but they can't make up for it, fearing that the more they make up, the fatter they will get.

Take Astragalus as an example. It is a typical tonic, because it greatly supplements the middle qi and works with ginseng. But it has the function of losing weight. Can you believe it?

Fat people are weak. Most obese people have qi deficiency. For these friends who are physically weak and obese, it is better to drink astragalus porridge to replenish qi. Body fat is made up of waste that cannot be metabolized. After drinking astragalus porridge, the transport function of human body is enhanced, and fat naturally has no place.