The Compendium of Materia Medica records that Polygonatum sibiricum: "tonify deficiency, stop cold and heat, and replenish essence."

Main effects:

1, moistening lung and nourishing yin: used for lung yin deficiency and lung deficiency with dry cough.

2, Bushen Yijing: used for kidney deficiency and essence deficiency, backache, dizziness, soft feet and so on. In addition, it can also be used for quenching thirst of people with deficiency of both qi and yin.

Polygonatum health medicated diet:

1, Polygonatum rice porridge:

Raw materials: Polygonatum sibiricum 30g, japonica rice 100g.

Production: decoct Polygonatum with water to get juice, then cook japonica rice into porridge, and add appropriate amount of rock sugar to take.

Efficacy: it is suitable for yin deficiency and lung dryness, cough and dry throat, and spleen and stomach weakness.

2, rock sugar Polygonatum soup

Ingredients: Polygonatum 30g, rock sugar 50g.

Production: Polygonatum sibiricum is soaked in cold water, added with rock sugar, and decocted on low fire 1 hour.

Usage: Eat Polygonatum odoratum and drink soup twice a day.

Efficacy: nourishing yin and moistening heart and lungs. Suitable for weak body, cough due to lung deficiency, pulmonary tuberculosis or bronchiectasis, low-grade hemoptysis, and low-grade leucorrhea in women.

3, Codonopsis pilosula Polygonatum pork belly:

Raw materials: Radix Codonopsis, Rhizoma Polygonati each 30g, Rhizoma Dioscoreae 60g, Pericarpium Citri Tangerinae 1 5g, Oryza Glutinosa150g, and pig stomach1.

Production: pig gastric lavage; Decoct Radix Codonopsis and Rhizoma Polygonati to get juice, cut Pericarpium Citri Tangerinae into fine particles, add a little salt, ginger and pepper, mix well with glutinous rice, put into pig's stomach, tie both ends tightly, and steam in a bowl.

Efficacy: Suitable for spleen and stomach weakness, eating less loose stool, emaciation and mental fatigue.

Who should not eat Polygonatum sibiricum?

Polygonatum sibiricum is sweet in taste, flat in nature and slow in action, and can be used as a nourishing product for a long time. However, it is greasy and easy to help damp evil, so it is not suitable for those with spleen deficiency, excessive dampness, cough and phlegm, and diarrhea due to moderate cold.

How to choose Polygonatum?

Polygonatum sibiricum is divided into three kinds: Polygonatum sibiricum, Polygonatum sibiricum and rhubarb, among which Polygonatum sibiricum has the best quality. Ginger-shaped Polygonatum sibiricum has short and thin internodes and looks like ginger, so it is named Ginger-shaped Polygonatum sibiricum. It is best to choose Polygonatum sibiricum with hypertrophy, yellow color and transparent cross-section.

The above is the efficacy and food precautions of Polygonatum sibiricum. While nourishing, we should also know the efficacy of ingredients in detail.