According to the analysis of existing medical records, after Empress Dowager Cixi entered middle age, her spleen and stomach were out of tune, and her heart and spleen were deficient. From the first year of Guangxu to the sixth year of Guangxu (1875- 1880), the pulse cases diagnosed by the imperial doctors often appeared in Lafayette's "bad diet, slightly sticky stool", "poor appetite" and "heart and spleen" Guangxu 6th year 1880) On September 13th of the lunar calendar, Li Deli, a physician, advised Empress Dowager Cixi to take Bazhen Cake, which proved to be effective. Therefore, from then on until her later years, Empress Dowager Cixi never stopped using Bazhen cake for tonic. ?

The imperial doctors in Qing Dynasty commented on Bazhen cake: "The recipe of neither cold nor hot, which is peaceful and warm, mainly supports the spleen and stomach, has had miraculous effects repeatedly." Today's Chinese medicine experts analyze the formula of Bazhen cake, and think that it has the effects of invigorating the spleen and nourishing the stomach, benefiting qi and regulating the middle energizer to treat children's gastrointestinal weakness, dyspepsia, anorexia, abdominal distension, sallow complexion and emaciation, and loose stool due to spleen deficiency. This medicine is sweet and delicious, but it is less poisonous. It can be eaten when you are hungry, can cure diseases, and can also be used for adults. It is also a wonderful method. ?

Fortunately, under the auspices of Academician Chen Keji, a famous Chinese integrative medicine doctor, Xiyuan Hospital, Research Institute of Traditional Chinese Medicine, successfully developed the Qing Palace Bazhen Cake and put it back into use. From1March, 1982 to1September, 1983, the hospital carried out clinical observation and verification, and the results confirmed that Bazhen cake had obvious therapeutic effect on spleen deficiency, and also had good curative effect on dizziness, tinnitus, waist fatigue, fear of cold and other elderly diseases. This once again shows that the court medicated diet Bazhen cake in Qing Dynasty really has the function of delaying aging and nourishing health.