Guizhi, peony, jujube, roasted licorice can be stewed with peanuts and pork bones.

Guizhi, correct name: Cinnamon (scientific name: Cinnamomum cassia Presl), also known as cinnamon, cinnamon, etc., belongs to the order Lauraceae and is a medium-large tree in the family Lauraceae; the annual branches are cylindrical, the terminal bud scales are wide and oval, and the green leaves are alternate.

Oblong to nearly lanceolate; the flowers are white, about 4.5mm long; the fruit is oval, dark purple when mature, hairless; the flowering period is from June to August, and the fruiting period is from October to December.

Guizhi, a Chinese medicinal material, is the dried twigs of cinnamon. It is generally harvested in spring and summer. After removing the leaves, it can be dried directly or sliced ??and dried.

Guizhi is pungent and warm, can dispel wind and cold, and can treat colds, wind and cold, fever and aversion to cold.

Its nature and flavor are pungent, sweet, and warm. It enters the lung, heart, and bladder meridians. It is a commonly used warming medicine for treating internal cold. It has the effects of nourishing yang, dredging blood vessels, and warming the spleen and stomach. It is often used with medicines that nourish the liver and kidneys, and nourish qi and blood.

The compatibility of medicines can treat insufficient kidney yang, weak Mingmen fire, cold limbs and weak pulse. It can be used with other warming medicines to treat cold pain in the epigastrium and abdominal pain and cold arthralgia and low back pain. It has obvious analgesic, anti-cancer and anti-cancer effects.

Various existing carminative oil medicines such as cooling oil, rheumatism oil, etc. all contain cinnamon oil.

Function: Guizhi can produce sweat and relieve muscles, warm meridians and unblock meridians, help yang transform qi, dispel cold and relieve pain.

Main symptoms include wind-cold external syndrome, cold-damp arthralgia, cold limbs, amenorrhea and dysmenorrhea, mass lumps, chest numbness, palpitations, phlegm and fluid retention, and difficulty in urination.

It is used for colds due to wind-cold, cold pain in the epigastrium and abdomen, cold blood, amenorrhea, joint pain, phlegm, edema, palpitations, and galloping.

Paeonia lactiflora (scientific name: Paeonia lactiflora Pall.), also known as Jiangli and Licao, belongs to the order Penanthus, Paeoniaceae, and is a perennial herbaceous flower.

The tuberous roots emerge from the bottom of the root neck, are fleshy, thick, spindle-shaped or long-cylindrical, and are 0.6 to 3.5 cm thick.

The petals of peony are obovate, and the flower disk is shallow cup-shaped. The flowering period is from May to June. It usually blooms alone at the top of the stem or near the top of the leaf axils. The original flower is white and has 5 to 13 petals.

The horticultural varieties have rich flower colors, including white, pink, red, purple, yellow, green, black and complex colors. The flower diameter is 10 to 30 cm, and the petals can reach hundreds.

The fruit is spindle-shaped and the seeds are round, oblong or pointed.

Peony is known as the "Flower Fairy" and "Flower", and is listed as one of the "Six Famous Flowers". It is also known as the "May Flower God". Since ancient times, it has been regarded as the flower of love and is now respected.

It is the representative flower of Qixi Festival.

In addition, peony is an important flower in the Dream of Red Mansions. "Shi Xiangyun sleeps drunkenly with peony fungus" is one of the most beautiful scenes in the Dream of Red Mansions.

The roots of peony are fresh, crisp and juicy and can be used for medicinal purposes.

According to analysis, peony root contains paeoniflorin and benzoic acid, and its uses vary depending on the species.

Traditional Chinese medicine believes that white peony root in traditional Chinese medicine mainly refers to the root of peony root, which has antispasmodic, analgesic and emmenagogue effects.

For women's abdominal pain, stomach cramps, dizziness, gout, diuresis and other symptoms.

Red dates, also known as jujubes.

It is characterized by a very high vitamin content, and is known as a "natural vitamin pill". It has the effect of nourishing yin and yang, and replenishing blood.

Jujube is a temperate zone crop with strong adaptability.

Red dates are known as "hardcore crops" and are resistant to drought and waterlogging. They are the first choice for developing water-saving forestry and fruit industries.

Alias ??of licorice: Guolao, sweet grass, Ural licorice, sweet root.

Leguminosae and licorice are perennial herbs with thick roots and rhizomes. They are a tonic Chinese herbal medicine.

It is a very good medicine for the human body. The medicinal parts are the roots and rhizomes. The root of the medicinal material is cylindrical, 25 to 100 cm long and 0.6 to 3.5 cm in diameter.

The outer skin is of varying tightness, with a reddish-brown or gray-brown surface.

The rhizome is cylindrical, with bud marks on the surface and pith in the middle of the cross section.

The smell is slight and the taste is sweet and special.

Functions: Clearing away heat and detoxifying, eliminating phlegm and relieving cough, epigastric disease, etc.

It likes a dry climate that is dark and humid, with long sunshine and low temperature.

Licorice grows mostly in arid and semi-arid desert grasslands, desert edges and loess hilly areas.

The roots and rhizomes are used medicinally.

≮Food recipe≯ 1. Wash the fan bones, straight bones, tail bones and broken bones, then put them into a pot of boiling water and bring to a boil, then reduce to low heat and simmer for 10 minutes.

2. Take out the bones, put them into warm water, and use a rag to wash the bones one by one, especially the blood foam and impurities in the bones.

3. Then chop the straight bone into two pieces, remove all the marrow, put it in a steel pot, filter the original soup through a fine mesh sieve, add onion, ginger and wine, bring to a boil over high heat, and skim off the foam again.

, turn to low heat and simmer until the soup comes out after 3 hours, it is ready.

4. Generally, pork bone soup can be used continuously. It can be cooked for 9-10 hours at home and can be used 2-3 times until the fan bones have become crispy, the bones are gray in color, and the flavor and fat nutrients of the soup have been exhausted.

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Color: The soup is clear and oily.

Fragrant and fatty.

≮Nutritional value≯: In addition to protein, fat, and vitamins, pork bones also contain a large amount of calcium phosphate, collagen, bone mucin, etc., which can provide calcium for young children and the elderly.

Regular consumption can prevent osteoporosis.