How to eat Cistanche deserticola, how to eat Cistanche deserticola

Cistanche deserticola is well known for its good kidney-tonifying and yang-strengthening effects. Regular consumption can effectively enhance the body's resistance and immunity. However, we usually see Cistanche deserticola as a traditional Chinese medicine. So how should it be eaten as a food ingredient?

1: Cistanche deserticola wine: 40g of Cistanche deserticola, soak in 500g of liquor, cover the bottle tightly, shake once a day, soak for 7-15 days before taking, drink 10-30ml a day. Efficacy: nourishes kidney yang, improves blood and essence, moistens the intestines and promotes bowel movements. Used for impotence, kidney deficiency, infertility, sore waist and knees, weak tendons and bones, dry intestines and constipation.

2: Cistanche deserticola and wolfberry wine: Put 200g Cistanche deserticola, 100g Suoyang Herb, 30g Gastrodia elata, and 50g wolfberry into 3kg of white wine and soak for 7-15 days. Drink 10-30ml daily.

3: Cistanche and Cuscuta wine: 30g Cistanche and 20g Cuscuta, soak in 500g white wine and drink. You can continue to soak in white wine after drinking.

4: 50g of Cistanche deserticola, 50g of Polygonum multiflorum, 50g of Achyranthes bidentata, 50g of Platycladus orientalis, 1500g of liquor. Chop each herb into small pieces, put them in a gauze bag, soak them in liquor, stir them every other day, and drink the clarified liquor after 10-20 days. 25ml each time, twice a day. Used for deficiency of qi and blood, deficiency of kidney and essence.

5: 100g Cistanche deserticola, 50g Platycodon grandiflorum, 50g Polygonum multiflorum, 40g Achyranthes bidentata, 2000g liquor. Usage: Chop the above Chinese herbs into small pieces, put them in a clean container, add liquor, shake several times a day, soak for 30 days, remove the residue and serve. Take twice a day, 15g each time. Suitable for beauty and skin care; can also be used for those with premature graying of hair, rough skin, and healthy middle-aged and elderly people.

1: Cistanche deserticola and mutton porridge Ingredients: 20g Cistanche deserticola, 100g mutton, 100g polished rice, a little salt, and appropriate amounts of scallion and ginger. Preparation: Wash and finely chop the mutton and cistanche deserticola, fry the cistanche deserticola in a casserole, filter the juice and remove the residue, add the mutton and polished rice and cook until cooked, then add salt, ginger and scallion and boil for one or two times before serving. Usage: 1 dose per day, breakfast or supper, suitable for autumn and winter health care, 5 consecutive days for one course, 5 days off before continuing the next course.

2: Efficacy: nourishes the kidney and yang, strengthens the spleen and stomach, moistens the intestines and promotes bowel movements. Suitable for people with thin body, pale complexion, cold sexual function, cold limbs and fear of cold, frequent urination at night, clear and long urine, late menstruation, small amount of pale urine, pale tongue, thin white fur, and slow pulse. It is suitable for patients with impotence, spermatorrhea, premature ejaculation, female infertility, cold pain in the waist and knees, frequent urination, polyuria at night, urination, thin body, fatigue, internal injuries, and loss of appetite caused by kidney yang deficiency.

It is a traditional Chinese medicine, known as desert ginseng, and has a very important nourishing value for the body. In addition to its medicinal value, Cistanche deserticola is also a very delicious ingredient. Long-term use can not only effectively enhance the body's resistance and immunity, but also has a good effect of nourishing the kidneys and strengthening yang, and can improve sexual ability.