Benefits: chicken has a great medicinal value, folk have "good medicine" reputation. Chinese medicine believes that chicken has a warm, beneficial gas, fill the marrow, benefit the five viscera, make up for the effects of deficiency, can be used for the spleen and stomach qi deficiency, yang deficiency caused by fatigue, gastrointestinal pain, swelling, postpartum breast milk, weakness and dizziness of the tonic, for the lack of renal essence caused by frequent urination, deafness, sperm cold and so on, but also has a very good auxiliary therapeutic effect. But with chicken tonic need to pay attention to the role of male and female sexes are different: male chicken, the nature of the Yang, the role of warm tonic stronger, more suitable for Yang deficiency weak patients eat; female chicken is yin, more suitable for maternal, old and frail and chronically ill weak people eat.

Bad: chicken is rich in protein, in order to avoid aggravating the burden on the kidneys, uremia patients are prohibited; chicken temperature, in order to avoid helping heat, high fever patients and stomach heat noisy patients are prohibited; chicken in the phosphorus content is high, in order to avoid affecting the absorption of iron, taking iron temporarily do not eat chicken. And the tip of the chicken hip is bacteria, viruses and carcinogens "warehouse", never eat.