Meat is delicious and nutritious, so it is called "the source of energy". With its high protein and low fat, it has won people's favor and become the first choice tonic for patients with physical weakness after illness. However, people often pay more attention to the variety and freshness of chicken when choosing chicken, but they don't care much about the sex of chicken. In fact, although the meat of cock and hen has the above characteristics, their therapeutic effects are still different.

Traditional Chinese medicine believes that although chicken has the effects of warming the middle warmer, invigorating qi, replenishing essence and marrow, benefiting the five internal organs, and tonifying deficiency, we should pay attention to the difference between male and female when choosing: male chicken belongs to Yang, which has a strong warming effect and is more suitable for patients with yang deficiency and weak qi, and has a good auxiliary effect on frequent urination, deafness, oligospermia and cold due to kidney yang deficiency; Female chicken belongs to yin, which can be used to tonify patients with asthenia, epigastric pain, postpartum hypogalactia and dizziness caused by spleen and stomach qi deficiency, especially suitable for patients with yin and blood deficiency, such as parturient, elderly and weak, and chronically ill.

Chicken can be used for cooking and various medicated diets, such as old hen soup suitable for pregnant women, or longan chicken soup used by men to warm kidney and strengthen yang.