Eucommia ulmoides and Achyranthes bidentata decoction
With the coming of winter, many middle-aged and elderly people have begun to suffer from "old cold legs" and backache, which are mainly manifested as soreness of the waist and legs, unfavorable turning, and weakness of the legs and feet. Patients with waist and leg pain caused by kidney deficiency may wish to have a bowl of Eucommia ulmoides and Achyranthes bidentata soup, which can nourish liver and kidney, strengthen tendons and bones, dispel cold and expel arthralgia in winter.
Material preparation
20g of Eucommia ulmoides Oliv., 0g of Achyranthes bidentata15g, 0g of black beans100g, 30g of Millettia speciosa, 300-500g of black-bone chicken, 500g of Achyranthes bidentata bone, ginger, scallion and the like.
method of work
Cleaning Eucommia ulmoides Oliv., Achyranthes bidentata, and Radix Astragali, filling into a medicinal bag, soaking in cold water for 2 hours, and decocting with appropriate amount of water for 20 minutes to make a medicinal juice. After washing the Achyranthes bidentata bone, cut it into large pieces, blanch it, pick it up and put it in a pressure cooker, then add the washed black beans to make soup. Wash and chop the black-bone chicken, put it in a casserole with scallion and ginger, add appropriate amount of water, boil it with high fire, skim off the floating foam, switch to low fire and boil it into a clear thick soup. At this time, add Achyranthes bidentata bones and black beans cooked in the pressure cooker and decocted medicinal juice in advance, then boil over high fire for a while and add salt.
Efficacy of each medicine
Eucommia ulmoides Oliv., the main drug, is sweet and warm, and enters the liver and kidney meridians, which can tonify the liver and kidney, strengthen the bones and muscles, strengthen the meridians and prevent miscarriage. It has a good curative effect on waist and knee pain, weakness of bones and muscles, restless fetal movement, impotence and other symptoms, and is especially good at treating lumbago due to kidney deficiency. In ancient times, it was said that Eucommia ulmoides Oliv must be used for lumbago.
Achyranthes bidentata tastes bitter and sour, and enters the liver and kidney meridians. It can tonify the kidney, strengthen the waist, promote blood circulation and remove blood stasis, and draw blood downward. It is mainly used to treat waist and knee pain, weakness of bones and muscles, blood stasis pain and other diseases caused by liver and kidney deficiency. Achyranthes bidentata is good in nature, and there is often a saying in the field of Chinese medicine that "there is no Achyranthes bidentata, but it is knee-high". Eucommia ulmoides Oliv. is often combined with Achyranthes bidentata to treat lumbago due to kidney deficiency. Eucommia ulmoides Oliv. is responsible for tonifying kidney and Achyranthes bidentata strengthens bones and muscles. The so-called "Eucommia ulmoides Oliv. is combined with Achyranthes bidentata, and the waist and feet are more powerful".
Niu Dali tastes sweet and flat, and can strengthen tendons and activate collaterals, benefit the waist and relieve pain. Black beans enter the kidney, which can nourish the kidney and strengthen the bones and muscles. Achyranthes bidentata bone takes its meaning of "supplementing shape with shape", which can strengthen bone and strengthen bone. Black-bone chicken has the effect of warming and nourishing yang, which can fill kidney essence, benefit five internal organs, replenish deficiency, benefit qi and nourish blood, and is the first choice for middle-aged and elderly people to nourish and maintain health. Adding two kinds of flesh-and-blood products, beef bones and chicken, has a better effect of tonifying yang.
The combination of all the medicines has the effects of nourishing liver and kidney, strengthening tendons and bones, warming yang and benefiting qi, promoting blood circulation and relieving pain, and is suitable for the elderly and frail patients with waist and knee pain, weakness of muscles and bones, and chills and cold limbs to drink as winter medicinal meals.
I also learned the first bowl of health soup in winter. There are old people at home who are suitable to eat. I might as well make a bowl and let them be accompanied by warmth, health and filial piety.