The usual practice is: spring and fall digging, washing, water blanching or steaming until through the heart, dry. Cut into slices for use.
Here are a few examples for reference:
1, yellow essence porridge: yellow essence 30g, japonica rice 100g. yellow essence decoction of water to take the juice, into the japonica rice boiled until porridge cooked. Add rock sugar appropriate amount to eat.
Originally from Dietary Discussion. This formula reuses Huang Jing to nourish the spleen and lung. It is used for yin deficiency and lung dryness, cough and dry throat, and weakness of the spleen and stomach.
2, Codonopsis, Huang Jing pork belly: Codonopsis, Huang Jing 30g each, 60g yam, orange peel 15g, 150g glutinous rice, pig stomach 1 set. Pig stomach washed; ginseng, yellow essence decoction, orange peel cut fine particles, plus salt, ginger, pepper a little, and mix with glutinous rice, into the pig stomach, tie the ends; placed in a bowl of steamed food.
This formula is based on Codonopsis pilosula and Huang Jing to replenish the spleen and benefit the qi, yam to nourish and replenish the spleen, and orange peel to regulate qi and strengthen the stomach. It is used for weak spleen and stomach, loose stools with little food, emaciation and weakness.
3, nine turn yellow essence cream: yellow essence, angelica each equal parts. Water decoction to take thick juice, add the right amount of honey, mix, decoction. Eat 1~2 spoons each time.
Derived from Hejiaobingfang (the original formula is a pill). The formula tonifies the spleen and kidney and benefits essence and blood with Huang Jing, and Angelica sinensis assists Huang Jing to tonify blood. It is used for the elderly with weak body, insufficient essence and blood, and premature gray hair.
4. yellow essence cream formula:
Huang Jing a stone, remove the beard hair, wash to clean, broken steam, so well cooked, betting on the juice, and then fried to go upstream water, to a bucket, within the dry ginger three two, cinnamon heart end of one or two, a small fire fried. Look at the color of lush and want to yellow, then go to the fire to wait for the cold, Sheng Bu Jin in the container, wine and five, serve two, often before eating, the day two services, the old skin off, the color becomes light, flower color is different, eyebrow must change. Want to serve a long time, do not have to and wine, inside the raw soybean yellow, no grain to eat, not hunger and thirst, longevity and immortality.