Bazhen cake, invented by Chen Shigong, is a secret recipe handed down by the Chen family. It consists of lotus seeds, Euryale euryales, lentils, coix seed, hawthorn, malt, yam, etc. It is ground into fine powder and made of rice flour. According to the differences between children and adults, Jiuzhuotang has two formulas.

Bazhen cake, also known as Qingzhong Bazhen cake, is a well-known therapeutic recipe. Since 40 years of Qianlong, emperors, empresses, concubines, royalty, princes, ministers, etc. all competed to take food. Empress Dowager Cixi also liked to eat Bazhen cake, and she never stopped eating Bazhen cake until her later years. The imperial dining room is made of the finest materials and specially made for her.

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Chen Shigong paid attention to the maintenance of the spleen and stomach all his life, and his life span reached more than 80 years. He left the recipe of Bazhen cake and praised it for serving for a hundred days, making it fit and resistant to old age, helping Yuanyang and cultivating the spleen and stomach. The Bazhen cake made of this formula is neither cold nor hot, and it is mainly used to nourish the spleen and stomach. It has often seen miraculous effects, and the cure rate of diseases caused by indigestion in children has reached 100%, which is called the right way in medicine by future generations.