1, cuscuta have side effects
Cuscuta mostly grows in the wild, and its characteristics are different from other plants, because it is climbing on top of the vine of other plants, so this becomes its growth method. Cuscuta can be used in medicine and cuisine, both have different therapeutic effects, especially for bright eyes, tonic kidney, treatment of infertility has good efficacy.
Cuscuta contains vitamin A, carotene, protein and other nutrients, as long as the reasonable dose of long-term use, will not produce side effects.
Drinking Cuscuta tea every day may cause fire and symptoms of dry stools.
Depending on one's constitution, stop taking it if there are signs of fire. In terms of the efficacy of Cuscuta, it does not cause infertility, but on the contrary it can cause hypersexuality.
Additionally, people who are pregnant, hemorrhagic, strong Yang, knotty stools, fire in the kidneys, or have a deficiency of Yin and fire should not take Cuscuta. How to take Cuscuta? Cuscuta seeds to eat, take a look.
2, cuscuta eating
1, cuscuta cake
Materials: 15 grams of cuscuta, 250 grams of flour, 30 grams of green onion, 3 grams of salt, 3 grams of chicken essence, 50 grams of vegetarian oil.
Method of production:
(1) Cuscuta seeds fried incense and fried open, and ground into powder (so as to play a medicinal effect); green onion chopped.
(2) cuscuta, flour, green onion, salt, chicken with the pot, add 300 ml of water, knead well, made into a cake-like billet.
(3) frying pan on a hot fire, add oil, into the cake biscuits, cook into both sides of the golden brown that is to become.
Effects: refreshing the brain, tonifying the kidney and benefiting the essence, applicable to the lumbar and knee soreness, lack of spirit and other diseases.
2, cuscuta boiled winter melon
Materials: 20 grams of cuscuta, 300 grams of winter melon, 10 grams of cooking wine, 5 grams of ginger, 10 grams of green onion, 3 grams of salt, 2 grams of chicken essence, 30 grams of chicken oil.
Method of production:
(1) Cuscuta seeds fried incense, research into fine powder; winter melon peeled, washed, cut into small pieces; ginger slices, green onion cut into sections.
(2) Cuscuta, winter melon, ginger, green onion, cooking wine with the stew pot, add the right amount of, with a large fire to boil, and then change the fire stew for half an hour, add salt, chicken essence, chicken oil that is into.
Effects: prevention and treatment of spermatorrhea, thirst, urine with residual leaching, dark eyes, etc..
3, cuscuta congee
Materials: 100 grams of round-grained rice, 30 grams of cuscuta, 20 grams of sugar.
Practice:
(1) Polished round-grained rice, soaked in cold water for half an hour, fished out, drained.
(2) Cuscuta seeds are washed and crushed.
(3) take the pot into the cold water, cuscuta, boil about 15 minutes, filter the dregs, add round-grained rice, with a strong fire to boil and then change to a small fire, continue to cook until the porridge into, and then add sugar seasoning, can be served up to eat.
Effects: tonifying the kidney and benefiting the essence, nourishing the liver and brightening the eyes. It is suitable for impotence, premature ejaculation, frequent urination, dizziness, blurred vision, tinnitus and deafness caused by insufficient kidney qi, as well as gynecological under-exposure and habitual abortion.
4, cuscuta dog meat soup
Materials: 15 grams of cuscuta, 300 grams of dog meat, salt, monosodium glutamate, ginger, green onion, each moderate.
Method:
(1) clean dog meat, the whole piece into the boiling water blanch through, remove the blood foam, cut into pieces.
(2) put the dog meat into the pot, with ginger stir-fry, add wine, and then the dog meat, ginger together into the casserole.
(3) and then the seeds of dodder in a cloth bag tied, and salt, green onions into the casserole, add the right amount of broth, with a large fire to boil and then change to a small fire until the meat is rotten that is to become.
Effects: Warming the kidneys and strengthening the yang, tonifying the essence. It is suitable for people with yang deficiency and mental instability.
3, Cuscuta buy method
Cuscuta: round or ovoid, often concave on both sides, the long diameter of about 1.5 millimeters, the short diameter of about 1 millimeter. Surface dark brown or reddish brown, for rough. Texture hard, not easy to break, strong pressure is not broken and compressed. Seed coat peeled off, endosperm membranous set, set in the embryo, embryo slender convoluted. Gas no, taste slightly bitter astringent.
Cuscuta commodities are divided into two kinds of large-grain cuscuta and cuscuta, cuscuta is the mainstream product, the country is widely used. Cuscuta seeds are preferred to those with full grains, uniform black-brown color and no impurities; Cuscuta seeds are preferred to those with full grains, firm texture and gray-brown or yellow-brown color.
4, the identification of dodder
1, identify the color
Pure dodder is gray-brown or yellow-brown, the surface is smooth; adulterated surface of the earthy color, dark color. [6]
2, twisting
Take a small amount of dodder into the palm of the hand, with the thumb of the other hand, twisting, dodder solid, not easy to twist; such as the palm of the earth, indicating that there is a mixture of dirt. [6]
3, soak
Take a small amount of dodder into a transparent glass container, soak for a period of time, dodder water volume expansion; mixed with cement particles, sand, mud, will be sunk to the bottom of the container, the cement particles, sand will not be expanded, the mud will dissolve very quickly and make the liquid become cloudy. [6]
4, boiled
Take a small amount of cuscuta soaked in boiling water, the surface of the viscous; heating and cooking until the seed coat rupture, revealing yellowish-white tendril-like embryo, shaped like spit, that is, the genuine article. [