Traditional medicine believes that tonic in autumn and winter can balance yin and yang and reconcile qi and blood. Tonifying in autumn and winter can not only strengthen the foundation and restore healthy qi, but also help to drive away diseases and evil spirits, enrich the body's yin and yang, qi and blood, and make the body enter the best state.
Of course, Ejiao is essential in autumn and winter tonic medicine. Ejiao is sweet and flat, and its function is to replenish blood and stop bleeding, nourish yin and moisten lung. However, not everyone knows how to eat Ejiao.
How to eat donkey-hide gelatin tonic
1, gum porridge
Take rice or millet 100g and donkey-hide gelatin 15g, mash them, and cook porridge with 50g of rock sugar. Before adding donkey-hide gelatin, dissolve it in boiling water, then add it into porridge, stir it evenly and boil it. Has the effects of invigorating spleen, nourishing blood and liver, and can be used for nourishing body weakness after illness.
2, Ejiao boiled red dates
Take 10 jujube and put it in the pot. Add appropriate amount of water and cook. Add 6 grams of mashed donkey-hide gelatin, dissolve it, and season with appropriate amount of brown sugar. Eat soup and dates. Efficacy: nourishing blood and strengthening spleen. Indications: Deficiency of both heart and spleen, palpitation and insomnia, etc.
3. Ginseng longan paste
Ejiao 150g, yellow wine 350ml, soaked in sponge, slightly stewed with water, added with appropriate amount of ginseng soup or ginseng powder, mixed with longan pulp, and steamed with rock sugar1h. Cool to jelly, and take one or two spoonfuls every morning and evening. It is suitable for qi deficiency, fatigue, weakness, palpitation and chills.
4. Ejiao yellow wine
Put 250 grams of donkey-hide gelatin and 30 ml of yellow wine into a pot, steam it for about two to three hours, and take it out after it is completely dissolved. Take two spoonfuls once or twice a day, which is suitable for general blood deficiency. Here? On this basis, adding rock sugar stew soup can treat women's irregular menstruation, menstrual bleeding and postpartum weakness; If you continue to add a proper amount of red dates, walnuts and black sesame seeds, it will have a good effect on male physical weakness, anemia, palpitation, dizziness and shortness of breath, and can also improve symptoms such as neurasthenia, insomnia and dreaminess.
5. Sesame and walnut paste
150g Ejiao, mashed, soaked in 350ml yellow wine for one week. When Colla Corii Asini is spongy, add water for stewing, add proper amount of black sesame and walnut kernel, add 250g of rock sugar, steam for 65438+/-0h, continuously stir and cool to obtain jelly. Take one or two spoonfuls of warm boiled water every morning and evening. This method has special effects on patients with backache, cold, tinnitus, yin deficiency or kidney deficiency.
6. Honey and egg paste
Take donkey-hide gelatin, honey and eggs together, stew donkey-hide gelatin in moderation, add an egg and a spoonful of honey once a day, and take it on an empty stomach, which has a good effect on cough caused by fatigue.
Although we all know that Ejiao has the function of nourishing blood and yin, it is an excellent tonic, but some people are not suitable for eating Ejiao.
Who can't eat Ejiao?
1, people with wounds can't eat it.
Ejiao is blood-activating, so if there is a wound, you can't eat it immediately, until the wound scabs, or the wound doesn't scab.
2. People who love fire
For example, heart fire, liver fire, lung fire, and even people with yin deficiency and fire, if they only use Ejiao, there will be a situation where the deficiency is not enough, and the fire will become bigger and bigger.
3. People with heavy body moisture
It can be manifested as dry mouth, bitter taste, sticky mouth, fatigue, dizziness or unconsciousness, abdominal distension, uncomfortable stool, and most importantly, thick and greasy tongue coating, or white or yellow.
4. People with blood stasis in their bodies
Dark complexion, pigmentation, easy to have ecchymosis, dull lips, dark tongue or ecchymosis, dark purple or thickened sublingual collaterals, and unsmooth pulse. Women often have irregular menstruation, usually delayed, blood clots, stomachache, dark color, short time in the body and so on.
5. Spleen deficiency
That is, people with low digestive function are mainly characterized by eating less, rotten or dried stools, fatigue, sallow complexion and so on. Although there is no rule that you can't eat Ejiao due to spleen deficiency, Ejiao is sticky and easy to hinder the function of the spleen and stomach, especially for patients with spleen deficiency and qi stagnation and less abdominal distension. If you must eat it, you need to be compatible with drugs that regulate qi and promote digestion to limit the greasy nature of Ejiao.
Chinese medicine experts believe that people with yang deficiency can't eat Ejiao. People with yang deficiency will also have symptoms such as loss of appetite, bloating and digestive dysfunction after taking it. In addition, you should stop taking Ejiao when you have a cold, cough, diarrhea or menstrual cramps, and then continue to take it after you have recovered or stopped taking it.
The above introduces the methods of taking donkey-hide gelatin in autumn and the taboo people who eat donkey-hide gelatin. In addition, we should remind everyone that it is best not to eat radish or drink strong tea when eating Ejiao.