Tonic
Liuwei Dihuang Wan cannot be eaten with three kinds of white food, otherwise it is equivalent to waste. The most familiar tonic in China, ginseng, turns out that most people do not use it correctly.
Ginseng is the “King of Herbs” that nourishes vitality, and is listed as the top grade in “Shen Nong’s Herbal Classic”. The eyes are happy and the ambition is good, and the longevity is light and the life is extended.
Although ginseng is the most familiar tonic medicine, there are many misunderstandings about its use.
Raw ginseng
1. It is suitable for all deficiency diseases, such as shortness of breath, fatigue, lack of energy, weakness of limbs, loss of appetite, etc. due to deficiency, ginseng has a role.
2. It is suitable for chronically ill patients with chronic diseases such as diabetes, hepatitis and nephritis.
3. People with qi deficiency constitution.
Raw ginseng
1. For people with yang deficiency constitution who have cold limbs and frequent sweating, the effect will be more significant.
2. People who are weak, have been ill for a long time, are thin, and those who are recovering from a serious illness after surgery can use red ginseng to supplement qi and blood.
3. Qi is suitable for cardiovascular and cerebrovascular diseases, including diabetic patients, stroke patients and people with various chronic diseases, but it needs to be prescribed by a doctor.
Lao Zhang concluded: People with cold body are suitable for red ginseng, and people with hot body are suitable for sun-dried ginseng.
01 Suggestions for the use of sun-dried ginseng pieces
1. Stewed Ginseng Soup
2. Buccal administration of ginseng tablets: Cut raw sun-dried ginseng into thin slices and store them in an airtight container. You can take 2 to 5 tablets each time. Generally, the daily dose should not exceed 9 grams.
3. Drink with boiling water: You can drink it directly with water, or drink it with wolfberry, chrysanthemum and other teas. Pay attention to sealing the lid when brewing to prevent the smell of ginseng from volatilizing.
4. Grind the powder and put it into capsules, starting with 1~3 grams per day, up to 6 grams.
02 Recommendations for the use of red ginseng pieces
1. Chew food: cut into thin slices and chew it
2. Make tea: Cut red ginseng into thin slices, brew with boiling water, cover for about 5 minutes and drink. After drinking and brewing with water until the color becomes lighter, the red ginseng slices can also be eaten directly after soaking.
3. Stew: Red ginseng slices can be stewed with chicken, meat and fish.
4. Red ginseng dosage: 3-9 grams
Rehmannia glutinosa is a commonly used tonic for the common people. Its fresh taste is bitter and cold. After being processed into mature Rehmannia glutinosa, it is sweet and warm in nature and has the effect of nourishing yin and tonifying the kidney. The main ingredient in Liuwei Dihuang Wan is Rehmannia glutinosa .
Rehmannia glutinosa: cold in nature, cooling serum fever, used for symptoms such as fever and yin injury, hematemesis, epistaxis, dark tongue, polydipsia, rash and other symptoms
Dried Rehmannia glutinosa: cold in nature, nourishing yin and nourishing yin, nourishing yin and promoting saliva, treating fever, internal heat due to yin deficiency, guzheng labor fever
Rehmannia glutinosa: warm in nature, sweet in taste, nourishing yin and tonifying kidney, commonly used in compound recipes for nourishing liver and kidney for the elderly
Shu Dihuang (steamed with wine): “Shu Dihuang is stir-fried with wine, the meridians and collaterals must be blocked, and then it can be stagnant” – Zhang Jingyue
Rehmannia glutinosa made from Amomum glutinosa: “If the rehmannia glutinosa is made from Amomum glutinosa, it will not be full, and then it will be possible” – Zhang Jingyue
Ginger-made Rehmannia glutinosa: “If the rehmannia glutinosa is stir-fried with ginger juice, it will definitely have moderate cold and vomiting, and then it will be possible” – Zhang Jingyue
Two experts have recommended 3 kinds of health-preserving medicated meals made from pieces of Rehmannia glutinosa.
1
Fresh Rehmannia Juice
Materials: Fresh Rehmannia (15-30g), appropriate amount of rock sugar
Method: Wash fresh rehmannia, squeeze juice, add rock sugar, dissolve and stir well.
Efficacy: Nourishes yin and clears heat, cools blood and stops bleeding. For blood heat fever, blood heat vomiting epistaxis, tuberculosis, hemoptysis, etc.
2
Rehmannia flakes in place of tea
Materials: 12-15 grams of raw ground slices, 12-15 grams of dried tangerine peels
Practice: Take raw rehmannia flakes and dried tangerine peel, cook for a while, and then soak in hot water as a substitute for tea.
Efficacy: Nourishes yin and clears heat, nourishes yin and promotes body fluid. It is suitable for people with red tongue and no coating, fever due to yin deficiency, fever due to gluten steaming, internal heat and quenching thirst.
Contraindications for taking raw rehmannia: Both fresh rehmannia and raw rehmannia tablets are cold in nature. People with spleen deficiency, diarrhea, and stomach deficiency should not use it.
3
Danggui, wolfberry and rehmannia porridge
Materials: Angelica 20g, Rehmannia glutinosa 15g, Lycium barbarum 12g, Chinese yam 15g, glutinous rice 50g, rock sugar appropriate amount
Method: Wrap the rehmannia glutinosa and angelica with gauze, put the gauze wrap together with the yam, wolfberry, and glutinous rice into the pot, add a proper amount of water to boil, when the porridge is ready, remove the medicine bag and add rock sugar and continue to cook until the rice is cooked rotten.
Note: Those who have a cough with yellow phlegm and abdominal distention should not eat it.
Rehmannia glutinosa tonifies the kidney, yam tonifies the spleen, angelica tonifies the blood, wolfberry nourishes the liver and kidney, glutinous rice tonifies the spleen and stomach, and rock sugar neutralizes the stomach, so this bowl of porridge not only nourishes the spleen and stomach, but also nourishes the liver and kidney.
Contraindications of Rehmannia glutinosa: People with typhoid fever should not take it, and people with weak spleen and stomach should not take it.
These three kinds of white food are not suitable for use with Rehmannia glutinosa: white radish, scallion white, and scallion white
Because these three whites are pungent and qi-invigorating, and Shudihuang is yin-nourishing, the power of qi-invigorating will destroy the yin-nourishing and nourishing power. Therefore, experts remind that in the process of taking Liuwei Dihuang Wan, it is best not to eat these three whites at the same time.
Rhubarb is also known as the “General of Medicine”. There is a very classic Chinese patent medicine called Qingning Tablet, which uses cooked rhubarb after processing. It is suitable for middle-aged and elderly people with physical weakness and constipation. It is used for empirical evidence. The treatment can not only remove the heat evil, but at the same time ease the power without harming the righteousness.
Steaming rhubarb First, put the washed raw rhubarb pieces into a stew pot, add a certain amount of rice wine and mix well, then put it into a steamer for steaming for 28 to 30 hours, until the color of the pieces changes from golden The yellow turns black, and the transformation from raw rhubarb to cooked rhubarb is completed.
Rhubarb: It has a strong effect, and the effect is fast and violent
Cooked rhubarb: relieves diarrhea, relieves abdominal pain during diarrhea, and enhances the effect of promoting blood circulation and removing blood stasis
Rhubarb: The effect of laxative is slowed down, the effect of promoting blood circulation is enhanced, and it has the effect of clearing away heat and detoxifying
Vinegar rhubarb: regulate liver disease, treat internal injuries of the seven emotions, and at the same time can relieve heat and remove blood stasis
Rhubarb charcoal: The effect of diarrhea is weakened, the effect of astringency is enhanced, and it has the effect of astringent and antidiarrheal
People who are not suitable for using rhubarb: People with weak spleen and stomach should not use it, pregnant women and women who are menstruating should be used with caution.
(Health Talk)