Seahorse and sea dragon Tianqi stewed chicken soup folklore has been said to help grow taller, but there is not much relevant scientific evidence to prove.

Tianqi hippocampus stewed chicken soup is a dish with Tianqi and hippocampus as ingredients.

The folk have a secret recipe for children to grow taller: that is, if your family has twelve, three to twenty-year-old teenagers, is in the developmental period of the body age, then the older generation will ask you to stew seahorse Tianqi stewed children's chicken soup to give the children to drink, can assist the children to grow taller, especially in Fujian, Guangdong, and other coastal production of seahorses in the place, it is a long time to circulate the secret of the growth of taller.

April 13, 2019, the Guangdong Provincial Bureau of Traditional Chinese Medicine issued a news release saying that the soup is pulling out seedlings and compressing the overall time for growing taller.?

Hippocampus Tianqi soup efficacy and function:

First of all, the efficacy of the hippocampus, hippocampus is a traditional and valuable traditional Chinese medicine, the folk have "northern ginseng, southern hippocampus" said. The Chinese Pharmacopoeia records, seahorses are warm, sweet, salty, to the liver, kidney, lung meridian, has a tonic kidney, yang, dissipate knot swelling and other effects, especially in the three-spotted seahorses for the best.

Tianqi, also known as Panax quinquefolius, has the functions of stopping bleeding, tonifying blood, activating blood circulation, promoting blood cell metabolism, balancing and regulating blood cells, etc. It enters the lungs and kidneys meridians.

Chinese medicine believes that the kidney is the main bone marrow, the normal development of the bone depends on the abundance of kidney essence, the loss of kidney essence, bone loss of nourishment. Therefore, these two things together in a stew, can activate the blood to replenish blood, strengthen the body, enhance the physical fitness, the physical development of young people have a certain role in promoting.

Note that raw Radix Panax quinquefolii disperses blood, stops bleeding and relieves pain, and is a good medicine for injuries. Cooked Radix Panax quinquefolium has the effects of tonifying qi, activating blood circulation, replenishing blood, removing blood stasis and generating new blood. It is appropriate to use cooked Panax quinquefolium for the formula of height increase in the text. For homemade, you can steam raw Tianqi softly and slice it, and then fry Tianqi in a frying pan until it turns yellow (don't make it mushy).

The above references? Baidu Encyclopedia - Panax quinquefolius and seahorse chicken soup