1, dodder makes tea
Ingredients: Semen Cuscutae, brown sugar
Practice: Cuscuta chinensis 10g mashed and ground, add some brown sugar, and then add some boiling water to stir evenly.
Efficacy: nourishing liver, protecting eyes and kidney.
2. Cuscuta chinensis soaked in wine
Ingredients: Semen Cuscutae, white wine.
Practice: Cuscuta chinensis and other compatible Chinese herbal medicines, such as Schisandra chinensis, are soaked in Chinese liquor and can be drunk in about three days.
Efficacy: diuresis and detumescence, eliminating ascites.
3. Cuscuta porridge
Ingredients: dodder, rice, sugar.
Practice: Wash and mash fresh dodder, then add water to fry it into juice, then put clean rice and dodder together to cook porridge and add some sugar to taste.
Efficacy: It has a good effect on treating constipation.
4, dodder chicken liver soup
Materials: chicken liver and dodder.
Practice: Put chicken liver 1-2 slices and dodder 10- 15g into a pot, add appropriate amount of water and make soup.
Efficacy: tonifying kidney qi and kidney yang, suitable for impotence, nocturnal emission, premature ejaculation, frequent urination and other diseases.
5. Semen Cuscutae powder
Ingredients: Semen Cuscutae, Lotus Seeds, Rhizoma Dioscoreae and Poria.
Practice: Semen Cuscutae 150g, Semen Nelumbinis 100g, Rhizoma Dioscoreae 100g, Poria cocos 30g, * * * ground into fine powder, about 15g each time, and washed with warm water.
Efficacy: Semen Cuscutae can tonify liver and kidney, tonify kidney yang, and lotus seeds and yam can tonify spleen and kidney, all of which can solidify essence and poria cocos tonify spleen. It is used for the elderly with liver and kidney deficiency, weak temper, mental fatigue, dizziness and tinnitus, and reduced diet.
What goes well with dodder?
1, with Eucommia ulmoides Oliv.
Eucommia ulmoides Oliv It is sweet and nourishing, helps yang to warm, and has the functions of nourishing liver and kidney, strengthening bones and muscles, and strengthening waist and knees; Cuscuta chinensis, sweet in taste, warms the kidney and nourishes both kidney yang and kidney yin. The combination of the two drugs can treat liver and kidney deficiency, backache and knee pain, and muscle weakness.
2. Use dipsacus root
Dipsacus asperata is sweet and warm, and has the functions of nourishing liver and kidney, regulating chong and ren, regulating menstruation and preventing miscarriage, tonifying without stagnation, and moving without stagnation; Compatibility with Semen Cuscutae can treat liver and kidney deficiency, metrorrhagia and fetal movement.
3. Use Lycium barbarum
Lycium barbarum L. belongs to the yin-tonifying medicine of traditional Chinese medicine, which has the effects of nourishing liver and kidney and benefiting shrewdness, while Cuscuta chinensis L. belongs to the yang-tonifying medicine. When they are mixed with water, they can nourish kidney yin and tonify kidney yang.
4. Use Astragalus complanatus
Both of them have the functions of tonifying kidney, nourishing essence and improving eyesight. Combined use, more effective, used to treat dizziness, tinnitus and blurred vision caused by liver and kidney deficiency.
5. Use Radix Rehmanniae Preparata and Fructus Lycii
Semen Cuscutae nourishes kidney-yang, yin and essence; Rehmannia glutinosa nourishes yin and blood; Lycium barbarum warms liver and kidney. The combination of the three drugs has the effects of tonifying yang and nourishing yin, and can be used for treating impotence, nocturnal emission, soreness of waist and knees, dizziness, deafness and tinnitus.
6. Use Psoralea corylifolia
Both Semen Cuscutae and Fructus Psoraleae can tonify kidney and strengthen yang, and can be used for treating deficiency and cold in the lower Yuan Dynasty. However, Cuscuta chinensis has mild effect and weak yang-supporting effect; Psoralea corylifolia has a strong yang-supporting effect, but it has no effect on nourishing the liver and improving eyesight.