In the late Qing Dynasty, Empress Dowager Cixi also liked to eat Bazhen cakes. According to the medical records of the Qing Palace, on September 13th, 6th year of Guangxu, the physician Li Deli prepared eight precious cakes for Empress Dowager Cixi-Poria cocos, lotus seeds, Euryale ferox seeds, lentils, lotus root starch and coix seed, each two pieces were ground into very fine flour, added with white sugar and mixed into cakes. It is said that Cixi often eats this cake for the rest of her life because of the disharmony between the spleen and stomach.
Bazhen cake is an addition and subtraction of Bazhen cake in Chen Shigong's authentic surgery in Ming Dynasty. Originally treated children with gastrointestinal weakness, dyspepsia, anorexia, abdominal pain, sallow complexion and emaciation, spleen deficiency and loose stool. Has the effects of invigorating spleen, nourishing stomach, benefiting qi and harmonizing middle energizer. According to the Records of the Pulse of the Western Empress Dowager on September 13th, Guangxu Six Years, Li Deli, a physician, asked Cixi that the right pass was slightly slippery, the left pass was slightly string-shaped, and the rest were flat. The wood and soil are weak, and it is not easy to transport moisture, so that eating less is difficult to eliminate, and the chest is not smooth, as it was yesterday, loose stool vomited. Today, I want to discuss the use of China for conditioning. "Li Deli here also suspect that this is a sweet cake for children to eat, which seems to be very correct. Experts believe that this medicine is sweet and delicious, but it has less medicinal properties. You can eat when you are hungry and cure diseases. It is also a wonderful method for adults.