Ginseng has the effects of "nourishing five internal organs, calming the spirit, calming the mind, stopping fright, improving eyesight and enjoying intelligence". Taking ginseng regularly can prevent and treat arteriosclerosis, hypertension, cancer and swelling, relieve mental fatigue, prevent aging, enhance sexual function, relieve acute alcoholism and drunkenness, and treat acne, moles and beriberi for students and mental workers.
Pay attention to the seasonal changes when eating. Generally speaking, the weather is cool in autumn and winter, and the food is better. It's hot in summer, so it's not suitable to eat ginseng. You should eat American ginseng.
According to experts, there are six ways to eat ginseng:
Stew: cut ginseng into 2 cm thin slices, put it in a porcelain bowl, fill it with water, seal the mouth of the bowl, steam it in a pot for 4 to 5 hours before taking it.
Chewing: It is the easiest way to put 2-3 pieces of ginseng in your mouth, which is refreshing, sweet and delicious.
Grinding: grinding ginseng into fine powder and swallowing it daily. The dosage depends on the individual's physique, generally from 1 g to 1.5 g each time.
Tea making: cut ginseng into thin slices, put it in a bowl or cup, brew it with boiling water, cover it for 5 minutes and take it.
Soak in wine: cut the whole ginseng into thin slices, put it in a bottle and soak it in 50-60% white wine, and take it as appropriate every day.
Ginseng itself has the function of invigorating vitality and regulating the qi of spleen and lung, and is a tonic. Can be soaked in grain wine. You can take it once a day after one month, 15'20ml, and don't overdo it. Once blood pressure rises, you need to stop using it.
Stews: Ginseng is often accompanied by a certain bitterness when eaten. If people are involved in cooking lean meat, chicken and fish together, it can eliminate bitterness and nourish the body. In addition, in the process of eating, we must step by step, and we must not rush and eat too much.
How to eat ginseng II
Ginseng is the root of Panax ginseng, a perennial herb of Araliaceae. After digging, it is washed and dried, which is called "drying ginseng"; After soaking in boiling water, soaking in sugar juice and drying in the sun is called "sugar ginseng"; When the lateral roots and fine whiskers are removed, they are steamed, dried or dried, which is called "red ginseng". Generally speaking, red ginseng can be used for the elderly who are afraid of cold and have low blood pressure; Patients with hypertension, diabetes and cancer often use sun ginseng.
Ginseng is an important drug for tonifying deficiency, which mainly has the effects of invigorating vitality, invigorating spleen and lung, promoting fluid production to quench thirst, calming the nerves and calming the mind. Traditional Chinese medicine believes that ginseng can be used for all kinds of internal injuries caused by fatigue and deficiency of qi, blood and body fluid. Ginseng is not only often used in the formula, but also can play a good role in treating diseases and health care when used alone. Here are some common ways to take ginseng:
Xuhua
Take ginseng, slice it, put it in your mouth several times, and swallow it slowly. It is suitable for people with chronic illness, weakness, lung deficiency, dyspnea, spleen deficiency, palpitation, fluid deficiency and thirst. Old people are suitable for soaking ginseng (about 1 g per day), which has the functions of prolonging life and resisting aging.
Clear soup boiled (without soy sauce)
There is an ancient and modern famous recipe called "Shen Du soup", which is to stew ginseng separately. The method is to take about 10g of ginseng, slice it, put it in a pot, add a proper amount of boiling water, cover it, and stew it in boiling water for 2-3 hours. Pay attention to add boiling water to prevent the pot from drying. "Shen Du Decoction" has the effect of benefiting qi and strengthening the body. A large number of ginseng soup can be used to rescue dying patients.
Sparkling wine
Ginseng wine is a good tonic. The preparation method is: take about1000g of ginseng, cut into small pieces or slices, and soak in1000g of Chinese liquor. Generally, it can be drunk after soaking for 4 ~ 5 weeks, and it should be vibrated and stirred 1 ~ 2 times a week. You can drink 10 ~ 15 ml every time, 2 ~ 3 times a day 1. Ginseng wine can tonify primordial qi, warm meridians and dredge veins, and is suitable for chronic patients with yang deficiency and cold constitution. It is not suitable for people with yin deficiency and excessive fire, night sweats and hot flashes.
braised chicken
Slaughter 1 old hen, eviscerate and wash. Put ginseng 5 ~ 10g, dried tangerine peel 10g, and Amomum villosum 5g into the abdominal cavity of chicken, tie them with thread, put them into a casserole, add appropriate amount of water, simmer on low fire until the meat is cooked and the soup is thick, and then eat the meat with soup. It has a good therapeutic effect on chronic disease, postpartum deficiency of qi and blood, various anemia and some blood diseases with insufficient hematopoietic function.
cook congee
Take 3 grams of ginseng, put it in a casserole, add water and simmer for 20 minutes, then add appropriate amount of rice, cook until the porridge is thick, and add appropriate amount of honey or rock sugar to taste. Ginseng and rice are cooked together, which has synergistic nourishing effect, can replenish qi and blood, strengthen spleen and stomach, and is especially suitable for the elderly with poor digestive function. Eating ginseng porridge regularly has a good preventive and therapeutic effect on myocardial dystrophy, coronary atherosclerosis, angina pectoris and arrhythmia.
Fried ginseng eel
Ingredients: 2 eels, 2 cups of water, 4 cups of soy sauce 1/,2 tablespoons of sake (cooking wine), 2 tablespoons of sugar, half an apple, half a onion, 2 green peppers, ginger1petal, and 20g of ginseng root.
Cooking method: cut off the head of the eel, remove the fishbone, and then cut the fish into pieces 5 to 6 cm long for use. Take out the cauldron, pour in a little water, add eel bones, and stew with onion, onion root, apple, green pepper, ginger, soy sauce, sake, etc. After about half an hour, put the roots of Radix Codonopsis into it, and continue to stew until the soup is half thick as sauce. Finally, put the eels on a baking tray, spread the sauce on them, and roast them over low heat.
Fried shrimp with ginseng
Ingredients: 2 sea cucumbers, 4 prawns, 4 onions 1/4 peppers 1/3 peppers 1/3, salad oil1tablespoon, soy sauce 1.5 tablespoons, and syrup/kloc-.
Cooking method: Wash and shred ginseng, wash prawns with salt water, and cut onions and peppers into pieces. Then put the wok on the fire. When the water in the pot is boiled, add salad oil, add onion and pepper and stir fry slightly. Then add ginseng, soy sauce, sugar and prawns and stir-fry until cooked. Prawn is rich in nutrition, and fried shrimp with ginseng is a nutritious meal for the whole family.
Ginseng mushroom soup
Ingredients: 2 ginseng, 3 fresh mushrooms, 3 Tricholoma, 3 shiitake mushrooms, 3 flower mushrooms, a little Lycium barbarum, a few dates, 500g water, 2 tablespoons sesame oil 1 tablespoon, 2 tablespoons starch water, a little refined salt and a proper amount of chicken soup.
Cooking method: Wash Ginseng for later use, put sesame oil in wok, and add Ginseng, fresh mushrooms, Tricholoma, shiitake mushrooms, flower mushrooms, etc. And stir-fry slightly after heating. Then pour chicken soup, add medlar and jujube, cook over high fire, and add a little starch water and refined salt to taste.
Ginseng chicken soup
Ingredients: 1 chicken, 1 ginseng, 2 jujubes, 3 cloves of garlic, 1 tablespoon of glutinous rice, millet, peeled coriander, half cloves of ginger and appropriate amount of water.
Cooking method: Wash ginseng, jujube, garlic, ginger, millet, peeled coriander, etc., put them in the belly of chicks, and tie them with ropes after filling. Then put the chicken in a pot, pour in water until all the ingredients are soaked, and cook it with high fire. After boiling, skim off the foam and continue cooking until the chicks and the ingredients inside are cooked. Finally, put the chicken and soup together in a clay pot and sprinkle with salt and pepper evenly. Be sure to put ginseng, garlic and other materials into the chick's stomach for cooking, because only in this way can the fragrance penetrate into the chicken.
Ginseng sweet dumplings ginseng sweet dumplings
Yuan folk song party
Raw materials ginseng powder 5g rose honey 15g cherry honey and black sesame each 30g white sugar 150g chicken oil 30g flour 15g glutinous rice flour 500g.
Cook chicken oil, filter residue, and air-cool; Stir-fry flour in a griddle; Stir-fry and mash black sesame seeds, press rose honey and cherry honey into mud, add white sugar, sprinkle with ginseng powder and mix well to form a heart shape; Mix glutinous rice flour evenly, and make dumplings with stuffing. When the water in the pot is boiled, put jiaozi in the pot and cook it, and you can eat it.
Usage can be early or late, and taken in moderation.
Efficacy tonic, soothe the nerves and strengthen the heart. It is suitable for diarrhea due to spleen deficiency, palpitation and spontaneous sweating, and mental fatigue.
Ginseng, spinach and jiaozi
Yuan folk song party
Raw materials ginseng 5g pork lean meat 500g spinach 750g flour 300g ginger, onion, pepper, soy sauce, sesame oil and salt.
manufacture
1. After washing spinach, remove stems and leaves, rub it into mud in this ladle, add appropriate amount of water and stir it evenly, wrap it with gauze, and squeeze out green vegetable juice for later use; Ginseng Radix is ground into fine powder and sieved with 100 mesh sieve for later use.
2. Wash the pork with clear water, chop it, add salt, soy sauce, pepper and minced ginger, mix well, add appropriate amount of water and mix well to form paste, then add chopped green onion, ginseng powder and sesame oil and mix well to form stuffing.
3. Knead the flour and spinach juice evenly. If the spinach juice is not enough, add some water and knead it evenly until the surface is smooth. Then add meat to make jiaozi.
4. After the water in the pot is boiled, you can cook jiaozi in the pot.
Use with meals.
Efficacy: invigorating qi and nourishing spirit. It is suitable for qi deficiency, limb weakness and palpitation.
steamed chicken
Source "Jilin cookbook"
Raw ginseng 15g hen 1 ham 10g water-made magnolia tablets 10g water-made mushrooms 15g refined salt cooking wine monosodium glutamate onion ginger chicken soup.
manufacture
1. After the hen is slaughtered, remove the hair piles and internal organs, blanch in a boiling water pot and wash with cold water; Slice ham, mushrooms, onions and ginger.
2. Boil ginseng with water, steam it in a cage for 30 minutes, and take it out for later use.
3. Put the hen in a pot, add ginseng, ham slices, magnolia slices, mushroom slices, onion slices, ginger slices, refined salt, cooking wine and monosodium glutamate, then add chicken soup (submerged chicken), put the pot in a cage and steam it over high fire.
4. Put the steamed chicken in a big bowl, and put ginseng (chopped), ham slices, magnolia slices and mushroom slices on the chicken (except onion and ginger); Pour the soup of steamed chicken into a spoon, put it on the fire to boil, skim off the foam, adjust the taste and pour it on the chicken. Usage: Divide meals with food.
Has the effects of invigorating primordial qi, promoting fluid production and calming the nerves. It is suitable for fatigue, anorexia, listlessness, amnesia, dizziness, headache, impotence, frequent micturition, and deficiency of qi, blood and body fluid.
Lingzhou, Shenzhou, Shen Ling
Source: Total records of myogenesis.
Ginseng 10g Poria cocos (peeled) 10g japonica rice 10g ginger 10g salt.
manufacture
1. Decoct Ginseng Radix, Poria, and Rhizoma Zingiberis Recens with water, and remove residues to obtain juice.
2. Put the japonica rice into the medicinal juice and cook it into porridge. Add a little salt when it is cooked and stir well.
Usage Eat on an empty stomach.
Efficacy of invigorating spleen and qi, tonifying deficiency. Suitable for deficiency over deficiency of qi; It can also treat stomach-qi disharmony, insufficient diet, and increased weight loss.
Fried chicken slices with ginseng
Yuan folk song party
Raw materials: fresh ginseng 15g, chicken breast 200g, winter bamboo shoots 25g, cucumber 25g, egg white 1, refined salt, cooking wine, onion, ginger, coriander, chicken soup, lard, sesame oil, monosodium glutamate and water bean powder.
manufacture
1. Slice chicken breast into slices with a width of 5cm, 1.6cm and a thickness of 0. 16cm; Cleaning Ginseng Radix, and cutting into small pieces with an oblique knife with a thickness of 0.66 cm; Slice winter bamboo shoots and cucumbers; Shred onion and ginger; Cut the coriander into long sections.
2. Add salt and monosodium glutamate to the chicken slices and mix well. Add egg white and water bean powder and mix well.
3. Put the lard in the spoon. When heated to 50%, add chicken slices, cut them with iron chopsticks, take them out when cooked, and control the oil. 4. Mix the juice with salt, monosodium glutamate, chicken soup and cooking wine.
5. Put the base oil in a spoon, heat it to 60%, add shredded onion, shredded ginger, bamboo shoots and ginseng slices, stir fry, then add cucumber slices, coriander stalks and chicken slices, boil the juice, turn it over a few times and pour in bright oil.
The usage when eating can be eaten with meals. People who catch a cold quickly.
The effect is greatly encouraging. It is suitable for people with qi deficiency and weak constitution.
Steamed bear's paw with ginseng antler
Materials: ginseng 15g, pilose antler 1g, papaya 1600g, pork 250g, chicken 250g, chicken soup 1000g. Preparation: put papaya into the pot, add chicken soup, and keep papaya still. Add an appropriate amount of onion and ginger, steam in a cage for 30 minutes and take it out. Spread honey on bear's paw, fry in 80% hot oil until golden brown, cut into pieces and put in a bowl. Soak ginseng in water until soft, cut it into filaments, and put it on bear's paw with deer antler slices. Cut the pork and chicken into pieces. Heat the oil in the pan, add the onion and ginger when the oil is cooked, stir-fry until golden brown, and stir-fry the chicken and pork for 2 minutes; Add soy sauce, cooking wine, refined salt, monosodium glutamate, pepper water and chicken soup, boil, pour into bear's paw bowl, steam in a cage and take out. Pick up chicken, pork, onion and ginger, pour bear's paw and raw juice into the pot, simmer for 5 minutes, then thicken the beans with medium heat, pour oil on them, pour them into a plate and add coriander. Eat as a snack or dish.
Function: Warming kidney, supporting yang, benefiting essence and nourishing blood. Can be used for treating senility and sexual hypofunction.
Stewed pork elbow with ginseng
Source "Folk Party"
Raw ginseng 10g pork elbow 500g cooking wine 10g salt 5g monosodium glutamate 3g pepper 3g ginger 5g onion 10g. manufacture
1, moisten ginseng thoroughly, remove the reed head, wash and cut into thin slices; Pat the ginger loosely and cut the onion into pieces.
2, pig elbow hair, washed, cut into 4 cm square pieces, elbow bone, put it in the bottom of the casserole, then add elbow meat, then add ginseng, ginger, onion, cooking wine, and add some water.
3. Boil the casserole with high fire, and remove the floating foam. Stew for another 55 minutes, add salt, monosodium glutamate and pepper, and stir well.
Usage: Take with meals.
Efficacy: tonify qi and blood. Suitable for weak body, sallow complexion, cold limbs and weak waist and knees.
Eat correctly. China's edible ginseng has a long history, and its magical effects are highly respected. According to historical records, ginseng has the effects of "nourishing five internal organs, calming the spirit, calming the mind, stopping fright, improving eyesight, being happy and improving intelligence". Its eating method is very particular: (1) stew. Cut ginseng into 2cm slices, put it in a porcelain bowl, fill it with water, seal the bowl, put it in a pot and steam it for 4~5 hours before taking it. (2) chewing. Chewing 2~3 pieces of ginseng in your mouth is the simplest way to take it. It is refreshing, sweet and delicious. (3) grinding. Grind ginseng into fine powder and swallow it every day. The dosage depends on the individual's physique, generally 1 ~ 1.5g each time. (4) make tea. Slice ginseng, put it in a bowl or cup, brew it with boiling water, cover it for 5 minutes and take it. (5) soaking wine. Sliced whole ginseng can be put into bottles, soaked in 50-60% Chinese liquor, and taken daily according to the situation. (6) stew. Ginseng is often accompanied by a certain bitterness when eaten. If ginseng is cooked with lean meat, chicken and fish, it can eliminate bitterness and nourish the body. In addition, whether it is red ginseng or dried ginseng, you should eat it step by step, and you should not rush and eat too much. In addition, we must pay attention to seasonal changes. Generally speaking, the weather is cool in autumn and winter, and the food is better; It's hot in summer, so you should eat American ginseng. In short, as long as we master the above eating methods and precautions, ginseng can make us keep fit and prolong life.