The Eight Immortals' Cake, also known as the Eight Treasures' Cake, is made up of eight Chinese medicines, including Codonopsis pilosula (or ginseng), Poria, Atractylodes macrocephala, Job's tears, Gorgon fruit, and lentils, and belongs to the traditional Chinese medicinal dietary formula for treating weakness of the spleen and stomach, reduction of food and drink, fatigue, and yellowish skin and thinness of the face.
The efficacy of "Eight Treasures Cake" mainly comes from the eight main Chinese medicines in it.
1, ginseng (or ginseng) taste sweet, sexuality flat. It has the effect of tonifying the center of the body, quenching thirst, strengthening the spleen and lungs, and nourishing the blood and body fluid. It cannot be used with quinoa.
2, Poria is sweet and light in flavor and flat in nature. It has the effect of promoting water seepage and dampness, strengthening the spleen and tranquilizing the heart. It is not recommended for those who have a deficiency of yin and fire.
3, white atractylodes smell sweet and warm, non-toxic, treatment of wind-cold and damp paralysis, dead muscle, spasm, jaundice, stop sweating, remove heat, eliminate food.
4, Job's tears its cool, sweet taste, light, into the spleen, lungs, kidney meridian, with water, spleen, remove paralysis, clearing heat and pus.
5, Gorgon fruit taste sweet, astringent, flat. It has the effect of benefiting the kidney and fixing the essence, tonifying the spleen and stopping diarrhea, and removing dampness and stopping bandages.
6, lentils taste sweet, slightly warm, have the spleen and dampness, diuretic swelling, clearing the liver and eyesight and other effects.
Expanded Information
Patent Cake matters of the crowd and efficacy
1, the pursuit of beauty and youthful women Patent Cake inventor, the Ming Dynasty Imperial Doctor Chen Shikong with personal experience, said: serve to 100 days, can light body resistance to old age. Cixi in her later years is daily consumption of eight precious cakes, for young women, eight precious cakes can eliminate pigmentation, acne, improve skin color, make the skin shiny and delicate.
2, the spleen and stomach weak eight precious cakes to regulate the spleen and stomach of the classic formula, many experts respected by the yam barley porridge and four treasures porridge, etc., are extended from the eight precious cakes. Chinese medicine says: the spleen and stomach is the foundation of the latter day, the source of qi and blood biochemistry. So in order to be healthy, you must first temper the spleen and stomach to be good.
3, the daily health of the crowd yam, Job's tears, Gorgon fruit in the "Shennong Ben Cao Jing" are honored as a top quality, often eaten to prevent disease, benefit from wisdom and tranquility, delay aging health effects.
4, the need to tonify the kidney and essence of the crowd of Chinese yam "spleen, nourish the essence of the kidney", Gorgon fruit is the spleen and tonify the kidney of the excellent first choice, there is pain in the waist and knees, frequent urination at night and other symptoms of kidney deficiency of the crowd is very suitable for the use of the eight precious cake tonic.
5, diabetics are very suitable for the eight precious cakes did not add any sugar, Chinese yam and barley are hypoglycemic therapeutic good, long-term consumption of a significant role in lowering blood sugar.
6, for the frail elderly, congenital insufficiency of young children, as well as those infected with serious illnesses, post-disease weakness, chronic diarrhea are very suitable. Eight precious cakes to supplement your blood, blood sufficient to have the capital to resist disease.
Note: Pregnant women should not eat, pregnant women avoid eating barley
Reference: Baidu Encyclopedia - Pat Chun Cake