Eucommia, a relatively valuable tree endemic to China, has a very high medicinal value. After drying, the bark of Eucommia is the common traditional Chinese medicine - Eucommia, and its leaves can also be made into Eucommia tea. Although the thick bark of eucommia looks very inconspicuous, it is a good medicine. It has a long history of medicinal use, is sweet and warm in nature, and belongs to the liver and kidney meridians. It has the function of nourishing the liver and tonifying the kidney, preserving the fetus and stabilizing the fetus. The main treatment for lumbago and kidney weakness, muscle and bone weakness.

The medicinal value of eucommia has been passed down for a long time, and the earliest ancient medical book "Shennong's Classic of the Materia Medica" has listed it as the top grade and recorded its efficacy in treating lumbar spine pain.

The proverb "use windproof for headache, eat eucommia for back pain" is a concise and clear indication of the role of eucommia. Cortex Eucommia can benefit the liver and tonify the kidneys, and can treat all kinds of chronic lumbar diseases, for lumbar muscle strain, lumbar osteophytes, soft tissue contusions have a relieving therapeutic effect, improve lumbar soreness and lumbar pain, and its remarkable efficacy is incomparable to any anti-inflammatory painkillers. It can also be used to treat chronic nephritis and kidney disease. It is often used together with Chuanjie and other traditional Chinese medicines. It is also commonly used in folk medicine to grind Cortex Eucommiae and take it with wine to treat kidney deficiency and back pain. In addition, one of the herbs in the common treatment of lumbar disease "Qing'e Pill" is also Cortex Eucommiae.

Cortex Eucommia is not only of high medicinal value, but can also be used as a dish with therapeutic effects. Eucommia pig's waist soup, hawthorn eucommia, and Sichuan broken eucommia stewed pig's tail are all common eucommia edible practices.

Cortex Eucommiae Stewed Pork Waist

Ingredients:

200 grams of pork waist, 20 grams of Cortex Eucommiae, 10 grams of chicken blood vines, dried jujubes in the right amount, ginger in the right amount, a pinch of salt.

Practice:

Eucommia bark with jujube, chicken blood vine clean and spare, ginger slices.

Pork loin over hot water, remove excess fat washed and sliced.

Prepare a casserole, pour in the right amount of water, and then put the prepared pork loin, eucommia, chicken blood vine and other materials into it.

Turn on the heat to simmer, and when the soup rolls, change to low heat and simmer for one to two hours to add the right amount of salt to season the pot.

Effect: This soup can replenish the deficiency and benefit the kidney, nourish the liver and lower blood pressure, treat lumbar soreness and kidney weakness, sedentary weakness, knee pain and weakness and so on.