Ancient Chinese medicine suggested that Chinese herbal medicines should be added when cooking chicken soup at home, so that the nutritional value and health care function will be more obvious:
White-collar workers: Adding Lycium barbarum, Poria cocos and Lily to chicken soup has the health care functions of nourishing the heart, calming the nerves and resisting fatigue.
Old people: adding yam, dodder and Eucommia ulmoides into chicken soup has the functions of tonifying kidney and resisting aging.
Young women: Adding Polygonatum odoratum, Semen Cuscutae and Fructus Ligustri Lucidi to chicken soup has the function of beauty beauty.
Weak and sickly people: adding Astragalus membranaceus, Polygonatum sibiricum and Atractylodes macrocephala into chicken soup can benefit qi, nourish lung, regulate immunity and prevent colds.
People with fatty liver and hyperlipidemia: Such people usually dare not drink chicken soup for fear that chicken soup will aggravate the symptoms. Therefore, when they eat chicken soup for tonic, they can add some traditional Chinese medicines to chicken soup to reduce blood fat, such as hawthorn and Polygonum multiflorum. It can soften blood vessels, reduce blood fat and protect health.