Cordyceps sinensis is a very famous Chinese medicinal material. Do you know what the functions of Cordyceps sinensis are? How to eat Cordyceps sinensis? Next, let me learn about the functions and consumption of Cordyceps sinensis with you.

Functions of Cordyceps sinensis

1. Regulate respiratory system function

Cordyceps sinensis has the functions of dilating bronchial tubes, relieving asthma, eliminating phlegm, and preventing emphysema.

2. Regulate kidney function

Cordyceps sinensis can reduce kidney lesions in chronic diseases, improve kidney function, and reduce damage to the kidneys caused by toxic substances.

3. Regulate hematopoietic function

Cordyceps sinensis can enhance the ability of bone marrow to produce platelets, red blood cells and white blood cells.

4. Regulate blood lipids

Cordyceps sinensis can reduce cholesterol and triglycerides in the blood, increase high-density lipoproteins that are beneficial to the human body, and reduce atherosclerosis.

5. Anti-fatigue effect

The anti-fatigue effect of Cordyceps sinensis. Fatigue is a very common phenomenon. It can be divided into two types: disease fatigue and non-disease fatigue. Generally speaking, as long as it is non-disease fatigue, the symptoms can be eliminated through sleep, exercise, entertainment, etc. This is not true for disease-related fatigue. We can only eliminate symptoms through drug treatment. However, the discovery of Cordyceps sinensis not only prevents disease-related fatigue, but also prevents and treats non-disease-related fatigue.

How to eat Cordyceps sinensis

1. Cordyceps sinensis and pork ribs soup

Ingredients: 7 grams of cordyceps, 300 grams of pork ribs, 15 grams of wolfberry, chicken soup, Appropriate amounts of rice wine, green onions, salt and ginger.

Method

1. First wash the pork ribs, then chop them into small pieces, blanch them in boiling water, take them out, and then rinse them with cold water.

2. Add water, ribs, and chicken stock to the casserole, simmer for 3 hours, add cordyceps, rice wine, green onions, ginger, and salt, and continue to simmer for 30 minutes.

2. Cordyceps sinensis lean meat porridge

Ingredients: 10g cordyceps sinensis, 50g lean pork*** slices***, 100g millet.

Method: First wrap the cordyceps with cloth, then put them in a casserole with millet and lean pork, add an appropriate amount of water and cook until it becomes porridge.

This porridge has the effects of moistening the lungs and nourishing the kidneys, replenishing qi and producing essence, and absorbing qi and calming asthma. It is used for coughs and coughs due to lung and kidney deficiency, spontaneous sweating and night sweats, impotence and spermatorrhea, and soreness of waist and knees. It can also be used as a health food for middle-aged and elderly people. Take 1 dose per day, divided into portions, and must be taken continuously to be effective.

3. Stewed old duck with Cordyceps sinensis

Folks often use 3 to 5 cordyceps sinensis sticks for patients with weakness, put them in the head of an old male duck, tie them with thread and cook them together. For those with asthma and deficiency, use 15 to 30 sticks, steam them with old male duck and eat them. For those with impotence or nocturnal emissions, use 20 to 30 sticks to stew meat or chicken. This product has the functions of nourishing qi and yin, nourishing the lungs and kidneys.

4. Cordyceps and Aconite Mutton Soup

Ingredients: 15 grams of Cordyceps Sinensis, 10 grams each of Aconite and Cistanche deserticola, 500 grams of mutton.

Method: Cut the mutton into pieces and wash them clean, then put them into the stew pot together with the cordyceps, simmer over high heat until the meat is cooked, remove from the heat, add seasonings, and serve. This soup can improve yang deficiency, cold limbs and lack of energy in the elderly.

5. Cordyceps and Beef Marrow Kidney Soup

Ingredients: 15 grams of Cordyceps sinensis, 50 grams of walnut kernels, 10 grams of longan meat, 250 grams of beef marrow, 1 pair of pork loin, 2 slices of ginger , 5 red dates.

How to do it

1. Cut the pork loin in half, remove the fascia and wash it. Keep the walnut kernels in their walnut shells. Peel and wash the ginger and wash the red dates. , remove the core, and wash the beef bone marrow and longan meat.

2. Put all the ingredients into the boiling water, simmer over medium heat for 3 hours, and season with salt. This soup has anti-aging effects and can be used as a dietary therapy for post-radiotherapy, chemotherapy and post-illness recovery or for daily health care.

People who should not eat Cordyceps sinensis

1. People with yin deficiency and fire exuberance cannot eat it alone

People with yin deficiency and fire exuberance cannot eat cordyceps alone. They must be combined with Cordyceps sinensis. It only works if it is compatible with other ingredients. If you have a doctor, you must take it according to the doctor's advice. For example, people with colds, fevers, and cerebral hemorrhages are best not to eat Cordyceps sinensis. If you take it blindly, it may cause internal heat. Excessive consumption may also cause palpitation, shortness of breath, irritability, and facial erythema. and edema of limbs, etc.

2. Children should be careful when eating Cordyceps sinensis

It is often said that Cordyceps sinensis is suitable for all ages. In fact, children must be cautious when taking Cordyceps sinensis. For example, children are already very healthy. Then there is no need to take Cordyceps Sinensis. If you really want to take it, you need to take it under the guidance of a doctor. However, Cordyceps Sinensis has androgen-like effects and may cause premature puberty in children, so it is best not to be taken by children.

3. People suffering from various types of real diseases

The so-called "real diseases" are mainly caused by the overexuberance of evil qi, the lack of righteousness, and the fierce struggle between evil and righteousness. Series of pathological changes. It is more common in the early and middle stages of external infection. Now it is generally believed that high fever, mania, high voice and heavy breathing, red tongue, abdominal pain that refuses to be pressed, obstruction of bowel movements, and a strong and weak pulse are all clinical manifestations of "excessive evil Qi means solid".