Porridge

Cook millet porridge, glutinous rice porridge, eight-treasure porridge, red date and chrysanthemum porridge, lily and red date porridge, barley and red date porridge, lily, longan and red date porridge, pig skin and red date soup, etc.

Red dates and japonica rice porridge

The raw materials are 50 grams of red dates and 100 grams of japonica rice.

Preparation is the same as cooking porridge.

Efficacy: This porridge is mild in nature, nourishes blood and calms the nerves, tonifies deficiency and strengthens the spleen and stomach.

Red dates and chrysanthemum porridge

The raw materials are 50g red dates, 90g rice, and 15g chrysanthemum.

Add appropriate amount of water to make the three ingredients, cook until thick and eat.

Efficacy can make the facial complexion rosy, play a role in disease prevention, health care, and beauty.

Lily and Red Date Porridge

The raw materials are 300 grams of glutinous rice, 9 grams of lily, 10 red dates, and an appropriate amount of sugar.

Preparation method 1. Soak the lily in water to remove part of the bitter taste.

2. Wash out the glutinous rice, simmer it with lily and red dates over slow fire to make a porridge, add an appropriate amount of sugar and serve.

Effects: It is effective in treating autonomic nerve disorders and menopausal syndrome, clearing away fire, calming the mind, and treating insomnia.

Note: This kind of porridge is especially suitable for female friends. Rice is sweet and flat, which can replenish qi and stop sweating; lily is sweet, bitter and slightly cold, which can clear away heat and calm the nerves, cure deficiency fire, and facilitate constipation. Supplemented by red dates, which are sweet and warm, it nourishes the heart, nourishes the blood and calms the mind.

Barley and Red Date Porridge

Ingredients: 100 grams of raw barley, 12 red dates (pitted), and 4 bowls of water.

Production

① Soak the commercial rice in water.

② Pour 4 bowls of water and uncooked rice into the pot.

③ Finally, add the red dates (pitted), simmer over low heat for 45 minutes, and then drink.

Effects: Drinking barley and red date soup can promote blood circulation and nourish the skin, reduce butterfly spots on the face or postpartum problems such as dark and stagnant color and constant lochia.

Note: Red dates have a mild taste and have the functions of nourishing qi, blood, strengthening the spleen, nourishing the heart and calming the mind. Remove the pits from the red dates and make the soup. The soup will not be dry.

Lily, Longan and Red Date Porridge

Ingredients: Six qian of lily, one tael of longan, 15 red dates, and 1 cup of white rice.

Preparation

Wash the lily and soak until soft, wash and pat the red dates and remove the seeds, break up the longan flesh.

Rinse and drain the rice and let it dry for about 20 minutes.

Put the white rice into the pot, add about 6 bowls of water to make porridge, when it is about medium cooked, add lily, red dates and longan, boil for 1 minute

Add rock sugar to taste and continue cooking for 2 to Just 3 minutes.

Effects are suitable for unstable night sleep, restlessness, lack of concentration, excessive sweating, etc. It can regulate meridian circulation, smoothen the skin, and is suitable for mental anxiety disorders suffered by menopausal women.

Soups

Soups are the most commonly used dosage forms in traditional Chinese medicine. They were called decoctions in ancient times, decoctions now, and decoctions among the people. Soup in diet therapy refers to a type of soup that uses a small amount of food or an appropriate amount of traditional Chinese medicine and a large amount of water to make a soup with more soup and less ingredients. The soup can be mixed with medicines in three different ways: first, put it in directly after washing, or wrap it in clean gauze and put it in. After the soup is cooked, discard the medicine and eat it. Ginseng, wolfberry, lotus seeds and other edible medicines and medicinal and edible products can be eaten together. The second is to add the medicine to water and decoct it to extract the juice, and then pour it in during cooking. Third, if the raw materials are ginseng and other precious medicines, in addition to being sliced ??and fired, they can also be processed into powder and put in before the pot is served, so that they can be fully utilized and not wasted.

The most commonly used way to cook soup is to add water and boil it. Water should be added all at once. If you have to add water halfway, be sure to add boiling water. When it comes to heat, it is advisable to boil over high heat first, then simmer over medium to low heat until the vegetables are cooked and the soup is ready. The soup can also be steamed or stewed in water. Put the ingredients in a container, add enough water and condiments, cover it, then put it in a steamer to steam, or put it in a pot and stew it in water until the ingredients are cooked.

The soup uses a larger amount of water, which can make the food softer and the active ingredients of the medicine used more easily precipitate. The soup can be sweetened with sugar and eaten as a snack, or it can be roasted to make it salty and served as a meal.

Using Chinese Leling golden jujubes, you can make a variety of delicious soups, which also have beauty and health care effects.

Red Date Soup

Ingredients: 15 red dates.

Preparation: Wash the red dates, add 2 bowls of water, and fry into a bowl.

Dosage: Eat dates and drink soup, morning and evening on an empty stomach. Take it for about 7 days.

Effects: Replenish the spleen and stomach, replenish qi and blood. It is suitable for diseases such as spleen deficiency, loose stools, stomach deficiency, insufficient qi and blood, allergic purpura, and thrombocytopenia.

Red Date Beauty Soup

Ingredients: 50 grams of red dates, 100 grams of black fungus, and an appropriate amount of sugar.

Preparation: Wash the water fungus to remove impurities, cut into small pieces, remove the cores of red dates, put them in a pot, add an appropriate amount of water, and cook until cooked through.

How to take: Add sugar to taste and serve immediately.

Efficacy: This soup has the functions of moistening the lungs and strengthening the spleen, relieving cough, tonifying the five internal organs, and treating deficiency.

Red Date and Mushroom Soup

Ingredients: 20 dried mushrooms, 8 red dates, appropriate amounts of cooking wine, refined salt, monosodium glutamate, ginger slices, and peanut oil.

Preparation: Soak the dried mushrooms in warm water until soft, then wash away the sediment with cold water; wash the red dates and remove the cores.

Use a covered stew pot, add the clarified and filtered water for soaking the mushrooms and an appropriate amount of water, then add the mushrooms, red dates, refined salt, monosodium glutamate, cooking wine, ginger slices, and a little cooked peanut oil, cover the pot, and steam in a steamer for 1 About hours.

Usage: It can be eaten right out of the cage.

Effects: It is smooth and palatable, with sweet, salty, fragrant and spicy flavors, but the taste is soft and fresh.

Note

Shiitake mushrooms contain high levels of protein, sugar, vitamins, niacin, trace elements and a variety of amino acids, enzymes, nucleic acids, etc. Its nature and flavor are sweet and mild, and it has the functions of strengthening the stomach, replenishing qi, and nourishing the body. Nucleic acid substances can inhibit the increase of cholesterol in serum and liver, prevent vascular sclerosis and lower blood pressure, and can prevent diseases, keep fit and resist aging. Mushrooms contain ergosterol, which can be converted into vitamin D after being absorbed by the human body. Therefore, it can prevent and treat rickets and anemia, which is of great significance to bodybuilders.

Red dates are a well-known nourishing and beauty food at home and abroad. It can replenish qi, nourish blood and promote body fluids. It can strengthen the spleen and stomach and can treat haggard face, muscles and skin caused by weakness of the spleen and stomach, malnutrition, and loss of qi and blood. Skin disorders, abnormal Qi and blood, etc.

The two ingredients make up this dish, which is a good bodybuilding and anti-aging product. It will make women look beautiful and stay youthful for a long time

Red dates and egg soup

Source folk recipe

Ingredients: Two eggs, 60 grams of red dates, appropriate amount of brown sugar and water.

Soak the red dates until soft, remove the cores, add 500 ml of water and boil for 30 minutes, then gently break the eggs into the soup without stirring, add brown sugar after cooking and serve.

Usage: Take regularly.

General efficacy: People with weak constitution, premature aging, and sallow complexion can also use it to nourish themselves.

Note: This is a dietary prescription widely used among the people to replenish qi and blood after childbirth. Its combination is reasonable and nutritious. Taking this soup for a long time can make Qi and blood strong, and the face and skin will be plump and shiny, so it has a beautifying effect.

Red dates and celery soup

Ingredients "Dietotherapeutic Materia Medica"

Ingredients: 2 bowls of water, 6 red dates, 10 taels of celery, and half a piece of sugar.

Preparation

Pick off the roots and leaves of celery, and cut the stems into 2-inch strips.

Put celery, red dates and water into the pot and cook.

Add sugar to taste.

Dosage: When drinking, remove the residue and only drink the soup.

Efficacy: Women who feel tired and weak after childbirth, have loss of appetite, and feel uneasy can drink red date and celery soup, because drinking this soup regularly can soothe the nerves, nourish the blood, and increase appetite.

Name: Red dates and celery soup

Origin: Mainland China

Characteristics: The edible part of celery is the tender stem, which is hollow and has nodes, and the nodes are above the nodes

It has long compound leaves with zigzag patterns on the edges.

Name: Red dates

Source: Leling, China

Characteristics: Red dates contain protein, vitamins, and sugar, and have the function of nourishing blood and clearing blood.

Heat in the blood, dissipate blood stasis, nourish and nourish the skin.

Squid and zucchini soup

The raw material is half a catty of zucchini, while pigs compete for one catty. 2 taels of dried cuttlefish, ten red dates, two slices of ginger, and appropriate amount of salt.

Preparation

First peel off the zucchini, wash it and set aside.

Soak the cuttlefish in hot water for ten minutes, remove the cuttlefish bones, black clothes and fish eyes, wash them and set aside.

Wash the pigs, drain them and set aside for later use; wash the red dates and remove their cores.

Put an appropriate amount of water into the pot and bring to a boil. Add pork, cuttlefish, red dates, zucchini and ginger and bring to a boil. Change to slow fire and simmer for two hours

Usage Add salt to taste and it is ready to drink.

Effects include relieving heat and replenishing qi and blood.

Eclipta and Red Date Soup

The raw materials are 50 grams of fresh Eclipta and 8-10 red dates.

Preparation: Add 2 bowls of water and 2 bowls of dry grass and red dates, and fry until it reaches 1 bowl.

How to take: Take it with a drink, 2 times a day.

Effects: Nourish liver and kidney, nourish yin and blood, stop bleeding. It has a good auxiliary therapeutic effect on gastric and duodenal ulcers and blood loss anemia.

Lychee and Red Date Soup

Source: "Dietotherapeutic Materia Medica"

Ingredients: 15 grams of lychees and 30 grams of red dates.

Preparation: Put lychees and red dates in a pot together, add an appropriate amount of water, and cook over low heat until the red dates are ripe and tender.

Usage: Take 1 dose per day, eat lychees, red dates, and drink soup on an empty stomach.

Effects: Nourish the heart and spleen, nourish blood and calm the mind. It is suitable for people with Qi and blood deficiency, mental fatigue, sallow complexion, reduced diet, dizziness and forgetfulness.

Note: Lychees and red dates are both good dietary supplements. Lychee tastes sour and sweet, is warm in nature, and has the functions of nourishing the liver and heart, replenishing essence, replenishing qi and blood, warming yang, quenching polydipsia, and improving color. Meng Shen, a pharmacologist in the Tang Dynasty, said that it stimulates the mind, improves intelligence, and strengthens qi; "Jade Catalpa Medicinal Solution" said that lychee is sweet, warm and nourishing, and is the most beneficial to the spleen, liver, essence and blood. Modern research has found that lychee is rich in fructose, protein, fat, vitamin A, vitamin B1, vitamin C, citric acid, folic acid, malic acid and a large amount of free amino acids, and has certain nootropic effects.

Red dates contain a large amount of cyclic adenosine monophosphate, which has strong, sedative, hypnotic and antihypertensive effects.

This medicinal diet uses lychee and red dates together, which has a good tonic effect and is especially suitable for people with spleen deficiency and low blood.

Note: People with yin deficiency and excessive fire and phlegm-dampness blockage should not eat it.

Peanut-coated red dates soup

The raw materials are 100 grams of peanuts, 50 grams of dried red dates, and an appropriate amount of brown sugar.

To make peanuts, soak them in warm water for half an hour and remove the skins; wash the dried red dates and soak them in warm water. Put them in an aluminum pot with the peanut skins. Pour in the peanut soaking water and add an appropriate amount of water. Fry for half an hour, take out the peanut coating, add appropriate amount of brown sugar and serve.

Usage 3 times a day, drink juice and eat dates.

Efficacy Nourishes and replenishes blood. It is suitable for diseases such as physical weakness, postpartum, post-illness anemia and anemia.

Shenqi, red dates and squab soup

The raw materials are 60 grams of Codonopsis pilosula, 50 grams of astragalus, 6 red dates (pitted), and 2 squabs.

Prepare and wash Codonopsis pilosula, astragalus root, and red dates; kill the squab, remove the hair and internal organs, and cut into pieces. Put all the ingredients into a casserole together, add an appropriate amount of water, bring to a boil over high heat, then simmer over low heat for 2 hours, and season.

Usage: Drink the soup and eat squab meat. Take 1 ingredient every other day, and use 5 ingredients continuously for one course of treatment.

Efficacy: Replenish qi and strengthen the spleen. It is used for people who are chronically ill and weak, have yellowish complexions and eat less, have shortness of breath, fatigue, mental fatigue and are thin. Regular use by ordinary people can prolong life.

Stuffed ginger, potato and red dates soup

Ingredients: 150 grams of ginger and potatoes, 30 fresh red dates, 25 grams of white sugar, 80 grams of rock sugar, and about 300 ml of water.

Preparation (1) First peel the ginger potatoes, remove the heads and tails, cut them into pieces, steam them in a basket for about 20 minutes until cooked, take them out, put them on a cutting board while they are hot, crush them with a knife, and knead them repeatedly. Make ginger and potato puree, add sugar and knead into a ball, then divide into 30 portions and set aside. (2) Cut the fresh red dates with a knife, connect the two pieces, take out the date core, stuff the ginger and potato puree into the cut part in the middle of the red dates one by one, then shape it into a round shape with your hands, keep it round, put it on a plate, and steam it in a basket 8 minutes, put them into small soup bowls (one serving per person), then put the rock sugar and water into the pot, cook the rock sugar over slow heat until it melts, then pour it into the bowl.

Features: red and white, sweet and smooth, beautiful appearance.

Tip: Eating white sugar and other sweets can be converted into glucose immediately, while it takes some time for rice to be converted into blood sugar. Therefore, sweets can quickly raise blood sugar and are the best food to supplement brain nutrition. If the glucose (blood sugar) value in the blood drops, the brain's movement and thinking will be slowed down, and in severe cases, brain cells will die, causing life-threatening consequences. Therefore, people who refuse to eat sweets for many years are not good for the body.

Agaric, Tianqi and Red Date Soup

Ingredients (for one person): one tael of black fungus, three qian of Tianqi, ten red dates, and two slices of ginger.

Preparation

Soak the black fungus until soft, remove the heads and chop into small pieces.

Wash the Tianqi and chop or break it into pieces; wash and loosen the red dates and remove the core.

Add ten bowls of water to the above ingredients and ginger slices, bring to a boil over high heat, then cook over medium heat for about two hours, and finally add appropriate salt to taste.

Effects: Obesity, cold hands and feet, promoting blood circulation and regulating menstruation, preventing and treating dark spots on the face, moistening the lungs and replenishing blood.

Note: Auricularia fungus has a sweet and cold taste and can replenish blood, lower fat, moisten the lungs, stop bleeding, and clear blood stasis.

The nature and flavor of Tianqi are slightly sweet, bitter, and lukewarm. It can remove blood stasis, stop bleeding, reduce swelling, and promote coronary blood circulation.

Dark spots on the face are related to qi stagnation, blood stasis, and skin malnutrition. Fungus, Tianqi and Red Date Decoction can harmonize nutrition, replenish qi and activate blood circulation.

Notes on cooking soup tips: 1. Water: When cooking meat, you must pass it through water to remove the fishy smell and foam. The method is to add one or two slices of ginger to the water and bring to a boil over high heat. Add the meat and cook for two to five minutes (depending on the size and thickness of the meat). After that, remove the meat and wash it again with water. Pour away the used water and replace it with clean water and bring to a boil. Next, prepare the soup.

2. Boil the water and add the ingredients. "Soup" is a term commonly used by Hong Kong people, which means to cook a pot of soup that is on time and delicious, which is equivalent to the meaning of "cooking good soup". When making soup, you must remember to boil the water until it boils before adding the ingredients. Never put the ingredients into cold water and boil them together. Only when the water is boiling can the soup be delicious and not sticky to the bottom. Boiling soup should also be done in one go. Do not add water or salt in the middle. Seasoning should be added after the soup is cooked.

Hashi film and red date sweet soup

Ingredients: hash film, red dates, and seasoning rock sugar.

To make hash membrane, soak it in hot water for 3 hours. After it swells, remove the black silk and impurities, carefully filter and drain with clean water; put the water, hash membrane and red dates into the pot , turn to low heat after high heat, cook for about 15 minutes, add rock sugar to taste.

Usage: It can be consumed hot or chilled.

Effects: Increase female hormones and cultivate interest.

Tremella and red dates soup

Ingredients: 2 taels of tremella, five or six red dates, and an appropriate amount of rock sugar.

Preparation

Soak the white fungus in cold water for more than six hours

Pick off the tail end of the white fungus

Put the picked white fungus away Pour into water and simmer over low heat for four hours

Wash the red dates, put them into the white fungus soup, and add an appropriate amount of rock sugar

Bring to a boil over medium heat for three to five minutes and turn off the heat once the rock sugar has melted.

Usage: It can be eaten cold or hot. After cooling, keep it in the refrigerator.

Effective and delicious breast enlargement dots can also make your face white and rosy, and your body light and slim.

Remarks: Jujube is a dried fruit of a deciduous tree in the Pyraceae family. The variety with the best taste and richest nutrition is the golden jujube. Because of its nutritional value and sweet taste, red dates are the main ingredient in snacks, stews, and medicinal meals. One disadvantage of red dates is that you should not eat too much. Eating too much will cause stomach bloating and chest tightness, which is a very uncomfortable feeling.

Red dates can nourish the blood and make the face rosy, and because they are rich in natural female hormones similar to estrogen, they are effective in nourishing the uterus and enlarging the breasts of women. Tremella is rich in colloid, which can promote the formation of mucopolysaccharides, which not only enlarges breasts but also strengthens muscles and bones. To complement the shape, the white Tremella fungus also has a whitening effect. The white color enters the lung meridian, and the white fungus not only moisturizes the lungs, but the rich fiber in it can also clear the intestines and clear stools.

Tremella is also known as the "poor man's bird's nest". Although the bird's nest is edible, it is expensive. Tremella is similar to bird's nest in terms of color, taste and efficacy, and is cheap, so it is called the poor man's bird's nest. If we compare bird's nest with white fungus, I would rather take white fungus than bird's nest, because bird's nest is too nourishing and easy to cause internal heat. Tremella is a cooling tonic and moisturizing effect. Dryness and fire are like acute and chronic diseases. Fire comes and goes quickly. However, if the anger persists for too long, it will turn into dryness, and the tissue fluid will dry up, causing water shortage in the internal organs. Especially in the elderly, constipation caused by intestinal dryness, eating Tremella fuciformis is the most effective.

Red dates and Codonopsis pilosula beef soup

Ingredients: 30 red dates, 50 grams of Codonopsis pilosula, 250 grams of beef, and 2 slices of ginger.

To make red dates, wash them with clean water and remove the pits; wash the ginger, scrape off the skin and cut it into two pieces; wash Codonopsis pilosula and beef with clean water respectively. Then put the above ingredients together into the boiling water, continue to simmer over medium heat for about three hours, and season with a little salt.

Usage: Drink with food.

Efficacy: Red dates can replenish qi, strengthen the spleen, nourish the heart and calm the mind; Codonopsis pilosula can replenish qi and strengthen the spleen and stomach; Beef can nourish the spleen and stomach, replenish qi, nourish and strengthen the body. In addition to the above ingredients, this soup is also served with ginger that warms the stomach and strengthens the body. Therefore, those who are weak and have no appetite for food can use "red date dangshen" which can nourish qi and blood, nourish the heart and calm the mind, and strengthen the body. "Boil beef soup" with meals as a dietary therapy.

Remarks: Feeling tired after doing sports or physical labor is the body’s instinctive protective retribution. Originally, this is a good thing. It can remind the person to take a rest and not to continue to consume physical energy. , to avoid excessive fatigue, discomfort, or even illness.

It can be seen that excessive fatigue is often caused by overloaded physical or mental work. In addition to regular daily activities and rest, eating some supplementary foods regularly can also enhance the body's resistance to fatigue. endurance. Therefore, you can use "Beef Soup with Red Dates and Codonopsis" to accompany your meal as a dietary therapy.

Breast Enlargement Black Fungus and Red Date Soup

The raw materials are 10 grams of black fungus, 50 grams of red dates, and an appropriate amount of sugar.

To make, add an appropriate amount of water, cook the black fungus and red dates, and then add sugar.

Usage: Drink from 1 week before menstruation to the end of menstruation. You can take it every day or every other day.

Efficacy This soup is suitable for people with blood deficiency and spleen deficiency, especially women with heavy menstruation. This soup has the effects of strengthening the spleen, nourishing blood, and regulating menstruation, and is suitable for heavy menstruation. For women, it has a regulating effect, promoting normal spleen and stomach function, abundant blood, and breasts will naturally develop completely.

Note

Don’t eat it with seafood, otherwise it will cause waist and abdominal pain

If you feel uncomfortable or bloated, don’t eat it first

Eating too many red dates will cause abdominal bloating. Do not use more than 10 pieces at a time.

Remarks

There are really very few people who are born with a good figure. They want to enlarge their breasts, but they feel unsafe. They take breast enlargement pills, spend a lot of money and have no effect. Now, Chinese medicine practitioners provide you with a medicinal diet recipe for breast enlargement and blood replenishment. The recipe is simple and delicious. You may wish to try it.

Black fungus has the highest iron content among all mushroom foods. Moreover, like white fungus, it is a polysaccharide and has certain anti-tumor effects. In addition, black fungus can clear the lungs. Replenishing qi and helping the body excrete fiber have always been the favorites of textile workers and mining workers. In addition, red dates are mainly used to treat weak spleen and stomach, blood deficiency and chlorosis, thrombocytopenia, etc. Therefore, if a woman’s complexion often appears yellow, eat more With some red dates, you can see your complexion is rosy and crystal clear even without cosmetics.

Pig Heart and Zao Ren Decoction

Source: "Sichuan Traditional Chinese Medicine"

Ingredients: 1 pig heart, 15 grams each of Poria and Suanzaoren, and 6 grams of Polygala. .

Preparation: Cut the pig heart open, wash it, and place it in a casserole. Then put the washed and broken jujube kernels and washed Poria Goddess and Polygala root into the pot. Add an appropriate amount of water and use a strong fire first. Bring to a boil and remove the foam, then simmer over low heat until the pig heart is cooked.

Usage: 1 dose per day, eat pig heart and drink soup.

Effects: Nourishing blood and nourishing the heart, benefiting the liver and calming the mind. It is suitable for people with heart palpitations, insomnia, dreaminess, and memory loss caused by heart and liver blood deficiency.

Note: Ziziphus jujube kernel has a sweet taste and a neutral nature. It has the functions of calming the mind and calming the nerves, nourishing the liver and reducing sweating. It is good at treating deficiency, restlessness, insomnia, palpitation, forgetfulness, dizziness, polydipsia and sweating. Modern research has found that it contains fatty oil, protein, betulin, betulinic acid, jujube saponin, sterols and a large amount of vitamin C, and has obvious sedative, hypnotic and blood pressure lowering effects.

Poria Goddess is the white part with pine roots inside the sclerotia of Poria cocos in the Polyporaceae family. Traditional experience believes that Poria Goddess is longer than Poria cocos and can calm the nerves. It is an effective medicine for treating palpitations, insomnia, and dizziness.

Polygala is an important medicine for calming the nerves and improving intelligence. It is good at treating palpitation, forgetfulness, nocturnal emissions, insomnia and other symptoms of restlessness and mental retardation. "Compendium of Materia Medica" once pointed out that Polygala Gong focuses on the kidneys, which can calm the mind and stop panic, ward off evil spirits and calm dreams, strengthen yang and replenish essence, and strengthen the will.

The combination of various medicines and pig heart, stewed in soup, can benefit the liver and blood, nourish heart yin, and calm the mind. It is an effective dietary therapy product that nourishes and calms the nerves.

Note: People with excessive dampness and heat should not take it.

Red dates and longan mutton soup

Ingredients: 750 grams of mutton leg meat, 30 grams of longan meat (round meat), 15 grams of Codonopsis pilosula, 10 red dates, and 4 slices of ginger. A little salt and wine

Preparation

Wash the mutton, cut into pieces, add oil in a wok, and stir-fry with ginger.

Wash the longan meat, Codonopsis pilosula, and red dates (pitted), put them into the pot together with the mutton, add an appropriate amount of water, bring to a boil over high heat, and simmer over low heat for 3 hours.

Usage Season and serve.

Effects: Strengthen the spleen and qi, nourish the heart and calm the mind. Symptoms include emaciation, mental fatigue, palpitations, restless sleep at night, dizziness, and pale tongue with white coating. It can also be used for neurasthenia, iron deficiency anemia, etc.

It should be noted that people with exogenous fever or body heat, yin deficiency and fire exuberance should not eat it.

Gynostemma pentaphyllum and red dates soup

The raw materials are 10 grams of Gynostemma pentaphyllum and 5 red dates.

Wash the two ingredients, put them in the same pot, add an appropriate amount of water, and cook over low heat until the red dates are cooked.

Usage: 1 dose per day, eat red dates and drink soup.

Effects: brain-enhancing, calming and soothing. It is suitable for those who suffer from fatigue, loss of appetite, insomnia and forgetfulness, and frequent nocturia.

Note: Gynostemma pentaphyllum is the whole plant of the Cucurbitaceae plant Gynostemma pentaphyllum. It is an effective tonic drug discovered in recent years. Its functions are to strengthen the brain and improve intelligence, calm the nerves, nourish the kidneys and extract essence. It has a certain therapeutic effect on fatigue, dizziness and insomnia, memory loss, loss of appetite, and frequent urination.

Scientists have found that Gynostemma pentaphyllum contains more than 50 kinds of Gynostemma pentaphyllum saponins, many of which have the same structure as ginsenosides. It can significantly extend the life of cells and inhibit lipid peroxidation in the liver. Thereby delaying the aging process of the body, regulating the function of the endocrine system, improving the body's adaptability and immunity; and having significant sedative, hypnotic and anti-stress effects.

The combination of Gynostemma pentaphyllum and red dates, which are sweet, mild, nourishing the spleen and stomach, and replenishing qi and blood, can play a very good role in strengthening the brain. The author has persisted in taking it and achieved better results in resisting fatigue, promoting deep sleep, and improving thinking ability and memory.

Remarks: Use with caution in those with irritability and irritability caused by yin deficiency and excessive fire, or sore throat and mouth.

Replenishing qi, activating blood and preventing inflammation

Do you often feel cold hands and feet in winter? If this is the case, it is mainly caused by insufficient blood and vitality. If you can drink more soup with red dates as the main ingredient, the situation will be improved. For example, a soup made with red dates and anchovies, etc., has a moderate nature. It not only has the effect of promoting blood circulation, but also has the effect of replenishing qi. It is suitable for the whole family to drink.

Ingredients (for four people):

One piece of grass carp

Efficacy: It has the effects of warming the stomach, calming the liver and dispelling wind.

When ordering: The "soup" ones are the freshest.

4 qian of wolfberry

Efficacy: Nourish the liver, benefit the stomach, and improve eyesight.

Selection: Only those with red skin, dry and hard outer layer, and soft flesh are considered good products.

Fangdang (i.e. Codonopsis pilosula) 5 qian

Efficacy: Tonify the middle and replenish qi, strengthen the stomach and promote fluid production.

Selection: Those with large branches, thick and plump flesh, and yellow skin with horizontal stripes are preferred.

5 red dates (pitted)

Efficacy: Nourish liver and blood

Choose: Choose the ones that look like chicken hearts, also known as chicken heart dates.

Method:

1. Remove the scales from the grass carp tail, wash it with clean water and pat dry, rub it evenly with a little salt, and then fry the fish tail slightly to remove the fishy smell.

2. Rinse Fangdang, red dates and wolfberry slightly.

Note: If the Fangdang you buy home is uncut, you need to cut off the split parts of the head and tail, soak the Fangdang slightly and then cut it into sections, each section is about 2 to 3 inches. long.

3. Take ten bowls of water and simmer all the ingredients until about four bowls of water remain. Add appropriate amount of salt and drink.

Note: People with acne and heat should not drink this soup.

4. Drinks

Jujube tea, longan red date tea, Codonopsis red date tea, Qiju red date tea, Astragalus red date tea.

Codonopsis pilosula and red date tea

Source from folk prescription

The formula is 20 grams of Codonopsis pilosula, 10 to 20 red dates, and 3 grams of tea.

Preparation: Wash Codonopsis pilosula and red dates and drink together with tea.

Effects: Tonify the spleen and stomach, replenish qi and promote fluid flow. It is used for physical weakness, reduced diet after illness, constipation, physical and mental fatigue, palpitations and irritability in women.

Yinqi and Yin-nourishing tea

The raw materials are five qian of American ginseng, Astragalus or ginseng, three qian of Ophiopogon japonicus, two qian of Schisandra chinensis (broken cloth bag), and 5 red dates.

Preparation: Add 1500ml of water to the above ingredients and soak for 30 minutes, bring to a boil over high heat, then turn to low heat and simmer for 20 minutes. (You can also ask the pharmacy to crush the medicinal materials, pack them in tea bags, and then brew them with hot water in a thermos).

Efficacy: clear away heat and relieve summer heat, nourish qi and nourish yin.

Note: The weather in summer is hot, and excessive sweating can easily lead to fatigue, drowsiness and other qi deficiency syndromes. This prescription is a good way to replenish physical strength.

5. Healthy Food

Make date puree, red date and walnut cake, Buzhong Yiqi red date cake, white pigeon and red date rice, red date pudding, stewed turtle with cordyceps and red dates, caramelized golden dates, and red dates Brown sugar boiled pumpkin, ginseng and red date stewed chicken, peanut and red date stewed chicken, cordyceps stewed turtle, red date braised elbow, red date stewed sheep heart, red date stewed old duck, red date stewed seabass, peanut and red date chicken, red date and jasmine chicken, red date and lotus seed fish head hot pot< /p>

Buzhong Yiqi Red Date Cake

Ingredients: 10 eggs, 20 grams each of Codonopsis pilosula, astragalus root, and red dates, 6 grams of Zhigancao, 9 grams of Chinese angelica, 9 grams of Atractylodes macrocephala, and 5 grams of cohosh. , 5 grams of Bupleurum, 9 grams of tangerine peel, 15 grams of ginger, 600 grams of sugar, 2 grams of soda

Preparation

Put Codonopsis pilosula, astragalus, angelica, Cimicifuga, Bupleurum, and tangerine peel , ginger, Zhicao, Atractylodes Bupleurum, and red dates, remove the ash residue, process, dry and grind into fine powder, beat the eggs into a basin, use a whisk to make a foam, add sugar and continue whisking to dissolve the egg slurry and sugar. To make it into one body, add flour, Chinese medicine powder and soda and continue to stir until it becomes one body. Place a layer of fine straw paper in the steamer, pour the egg mixture into the roll, steam for about ten minutes, turn it out on the chopping board, and cut it into 20 strips and squares with a knife.

Usage: Consume with meals

Effects: Tonifying and replenishing qi, suitable for early menstruation caused by qi deficiency.

Note: This prescription has a good effect on women with uterine prolapse, fatigue and prolapse, and chronic diarrhea.

Jujube puree and peach cake

Source of folk recipe

Ingredients: 250 grams of jujube paste, 50 grams of walnut kernels, 50 grams of Huai medicine, 500 grams of flour, and 125 grams of lard.

Preparation

Crush walnut kernels, add date paste and Huai medicine to make filling; take 200 grams of flour, place it on the board, add 100 grams of lard, mix well, and form a filling. Dry pastry.

Put the remaining flour on the panel, add 25 grams of lard, and add an appropriate amount of water to form a dough.

Put the dry puff pastry into the water and oil noodles and roll it into a tube shape. Make 2 jujube paste puff pastry for every 50 grams of oil flour. Cut it into pieces with a knife.

Roll it into a round shape. Then use your left hand to hold the skin, and your right hand to put the jujube paste filling into the skin, tighten the opening, roll it into an oval shape, use flower pliers

to press the round blank from the top to the bottom to make a convex edge, and then use Clean chicken feathers are pressed into semicircular patterns on both sides of the ribs.

Put the pot on the fire until the oil is six-mature, then add the green dough and fry until the surface becomes crispy and turns yellow. After taking it out of the pan, let it cool for a while

It will become crispy.

Usage: Can be eaten as a snack.

Effects: Replenish the spleen and stomach, and nourish kidney qi. It is suitable for diseases such as spleen deficiency, lack of food, kidney deficiency and premature aging.

Drawing Golden Dates

The raw materials are 400 grams of red dates, 75 grams of hawthorn cake, and 150 grams of white sugar.

Preparation

Wash the red dates, cook them until they are 8 ripe, take them out, peel them, and poke out the cores;

Cut the hawthorn cake into short strips and insert them into the jujube meat. Dip the flour evenly;

Fry red dates in 80% hot oil until golden brown, remove and drain;

When the oil is 40% hot, add sugar and fry until golden If it turns yellow, quickly put the red dates in and mix well, then pour them into a greased plate and serve.

Poached pumpkin with red dates and brown sugar

For each preparation, use about 500 grams of fresh pumpkin (peeled), 15 to 20 red dates (pitted), an appropriate amount of brown sugar, and boil with water. Take.

Efficacy: Pumpkin boiled with red dates, brown sugar, has the effect of tonifying the middle and replenishing qi, and astringing lung qi. Folk medicine is used to treat bronchial asthma, chronic bronchitis in the elderly and other diseases.

Note: Pumpkin has a sweet and warm nature and taste, and enters the spleen and stomach meridians. Contains citrulline, arginine, asparagine, trigonelline, adenine, carotene, vitamins B, C, fat, glucose, sucrose, pentosan, mannitol, etc. Function: Tonifying and replenishing Qi.

Red dates are sweet and warm in nature and flavor. Functions: Tonify the body and replenish qi, nourish the kidneys and warm the stomach.

Brown sugar has a sweet and flat taste. Function: Replenishing qi and nourishing blood.

Stewed Elbow with Red Dates

The distinctive color is red and bright, the elbow is soft and waxy, sweet and salty.

The raw materials are 750 grams of pork knuckle and 50 grams of red dates. 25 grams of rock sugar, 10 grams of ginger, 15 grams of green onions, 3 grams of salt, and 750 grams of fresh soup.

Wash the pork knuckles, add boiling water to remove the smell of blood, remove and rinse, remove the pits and wash the red dates. Crush the rock sugar and stir-fry part of it into syrup.

Put chicken bones on the bottom of the pot, put pork knuckles on top, add fresh soup, ginger (beat loose), green onion (knot), salt, sugar juice, bring to a boil over high heat, skim off the foam, move to low heat and simmer, pick out Remove the onions and ginger, add red dates and rock sugar and continue to simmer until the elbows are soft and glutinous and the juice is thick. Remove from the pot and place in a large round plate (skin side up). Pour the original juice on the elbows and serve.

Stewed old duck with red dates

Ingredients: 1 old duck, 2 pounds of pork spine, a little tangerine peel, 50 grams of jujube, a small amount of wolfberry, appropriate amount of green onion and ginger slices; salt, MSG, Chicken powder and pepper

Preparation: Remove the feathers and internal organs of the live duck purchased from the market, wash away the blood, cut it from the back, put it in a pot of water, drain it thoroughly and fish it out; rinse it with clean water, and take out Add water to a large casserole, add a little lean duck meat, bring to a boil over high heat, then simmer over low heat until the meat is tender and seasoned.

How to take this dish is mainly to drink soup.

Note: This "Stewed Duck with Red Dates" is suitable for home production. The main seasoning is fragrant and nutritious, and can be eaten by men, women, old and young.

Jade silver egg membrane

Origin from the royal palace

Materials: Polygonatum odoratum, white fungus, red dates, egg white

Make three coins of Polygonatum odoratum , red dates, and white fungus. Wash lightly and soak in water for several hours. Then simmer over low heat until the soup thickens.

How to use for beauty: Take an appropriate amount of soup and wait for it to cool, add a little egg white and mix well, apply it on the face as a moisturizing mask after washing your face, wash it off for five to ten minutes, wash it and apply it evenly Apply a small amount of plant high-efficiency skin care gel and Z element astringent and balancing conditioning fluid evenly on the face.

For edible use: Add an appropriate amount of rock sugar to make a soup. It will be more delicious after chilling.

Efficacy Polygonatum odoratum, red dates and Tremella fuciformis can nourish yin, moisturize dryness, moisturize and nourish the skin. Regular consumption of this soup has the functions of nourishing lung yin, distributing body fluid to the outside, improving immunity, and improving appearance. At the same time, beauty use can nourish and smooth the skin, making dry and rough skin gradually softer and more delicate.