Beef is a high-quality meat that is loved by many people in life. Many people often eat some beef, and there are many ways to cook beef. The most commonly used method is beef stew. You can add some astragalus when stewing beef soup, so that the astragalus beef soup becomes a medicinal meal, which not only tastes more delicious, but also has much more nourishing effects, and has many benefits for your health.

Effects of Astragalus Beef Soup

This soup contains many Chinese medicinal materials, which are rich in nutritional value. In addition, beef, as a high-protein, low-fat meat, has high nutrition. It has great value, has few dietary taboos, can be used by most people, and has good effects on human development and postoperative recovery. At the same time, beef can replenish qi and nourish the spleen and stomach. It is a common food tonic. Drinking astragalus beef soup regularly, especially in spring and autumn, can have a warming and tonic effect.

How to make astragalus beef soup

Ingredients: 250 grams of beef, 10 grams of astragalus, 10 grams of saposhnikovia, 10 grams of atractylodes, and 10 red dates.

Preparation steps:

After selecting the ingredients, wash the beef, cut it into pieces, and blanch it in lung water to remove the fishy smell and excess meat. grease. It does not take too long to blanch the beef to prevent the beef from becoming too old. Put the blanched beef into cold water and set aside. Take another pot, add an appropriate amount of water, add astragalus, atractylodes, parsnips, red dates and other ingredients, cook over high heat for half an hour. When the ingredients are cooked and tender, pour in the blanched beef, and simmer over low heat for 2 hours. Before serving, separate the astragalus, fangfeng, and atractylodes separately. These will not be eaten. Finally, add salt, MSG, etc., and cook over high heat for 8 minutes to season and reduce the juice.

Effects of Astragalus

1. Replenishing the spleen and replenishing qi:

Astragalus is a very effective medicine for weak spleen and stomach, less food and loose stools, fatigue and fatigue, and Spleen deficiency, diarrhea, chronic diarrhea, anal prolapse, etc. Beiqi has strong qi-tonifying power and is good at replenishing lung qi. It can treat symptoms of lung deficiency, shortness of breath, low voice, laziness, mental fatigue, and susceptibility to colds. It is often used with Codonopsis pilosula, Atractylodes macrocephala, Huaishan yam, and Zhigancao. Astragalus made from honey has stronger tonic power.

2. Fix surface and stop sweating:

Used for spontaneous sweating due to superficial deficiency. Astragalus has the property of replenishing qi and expressing it externally, so it can replenish qi and solidify the surface to stop sweating. Astragalus has good surface-fixing and antiperspirant effects. Clinically, it can treat various sweating diseases through different compatibility; it can be used with yang-supporting medicine to treat spontaneous sweating due to yang deficiency; it can be used with qi-tonifying medicine to treat spontaneous sweating due to qi deficiency; it can be used with nourishing medicine to treat night sweats due to yin deficiency. If there is insufficient Qi and blood, external wind and cold, and often the inability to sweat, adding astragalus to the external medicine can encourage yang qi, replenish the source of sweat, and cause sweating. The so-called "with astragalus can stop sweating, but without sweating, it can cause sweating." This principle. It is suitable to be used raw at this time.

3. Replenishing qi and raising yang:

It is used for symptoms of qi deficiency and subsidence. Traditional Chinese medicine believes that the sagging of organs is due to the depression of Qi. Beiqi is good at replenishing Qi and raising Yang, and can treat prolapse, uterine prolapse, gastroptosis, nephroptosis, and metrorrhagia due to Qi deficiency and blood deficiency. In traditional Chinese medicine, Buzhong Yiqi Decoction is used to treat various symptoms of organ ptosis. The astragalus in Buzhong Yiqi Decoction is taken from its qi-tonifying properties and has ascending properties, which can increase the clear yang of the spleen and stomach. At this time it is advisable to make honey before use.

4. Diuresis and swelling:

For edema due to Qi deficiency, it is often used with Atractylodes, Fangji, Zhigancao or Guizhi and Poria, such as Fangji Huangqi Decoction and Fangji Fuling Decoction. There is this product. It is mostly used to treat chronic nephritis, proteinuria, late-stage diabetes, etc.