Sexual taste orientation
Taste bitter, sweet and warm. Spleen and stomach meridian.
Functional indication
Strengthening the spleen and benefiting qi, eliminating dampness and promoting diuresis, stopping sweating and preventing miscarriage. For spleen deficiency, anorexia, abdominal distension and diarrhea, excessive phlegm, dizziness and edema, spontaneous sweating and fetal movement. Atractylodes macrocephala strengthens spleen, regulates stomach and prevents miscarriage. For spleen deficiency, anorexia, diarrhea, loose stool, fetal movement.
Dryness and spleen strengthening
Atractylodes macrocephala is a spleen-stomach meridian, which can not only benefit qi and spleen, but also dry dampness and promote diuresis. Can be widely used for spleen-qi weakness, transport failure, anorexia due to dampness, loose stool, diarrhea, excessive phlegm, edema, leukorrhagia, etc. For people with spleen deficiency and dampness resistance, it has the effect of treating both the symptoms and the root causes. It is called "the first medicine for invigorating spleen and benefiting qi".
Strengthening exterior surface and stopping sweating
Atractylodes macrocephala can invigorate qi and spleen, consolidate exterior and stop sweating. Its effect is similar to that of Astragalus membranaceus, but its intensity is slightly weaker. It is often used to treat patients with spleen-qi deficiency and excessive sweating. If the qi and blood of spleen and lung are not harmonious, and the defensive qi is not firm, it is easy to show deficiency and spontaneous sweating due to wind-cold, so it can be combined with spleen-lung tonifying, wind-dispelling and pathogenic factors-expelling herbs such as Huang Qi and Fang Feng.
Prevent abortion
Atractylodes macrocephala can benefit qi and strengthen the spleen, and has a bad temper, so that the fetus can raise children safely, so Atractylodes macrocephala has the effect of preventing miscarriage. It is suitable for pregnant women, people with spleen deficiency and weak qi, biochemical passivity, and restless fetal movement.
Diuretic detumescence
Atractylodes macrocephala is beneficial to the sufficiency of qi for protecting fat, thus helping the human body to better resist the invasion of external evils and has the function of strengthening the body. Atractylodes macrocephala has obvious diuretic effect and can treat renal edema, hepatic edema, malnutrition edema and pregnancy edema.
antioxidation
Atractylodes macrocephala has antioxidant effect, which can effectively inhibit lipid peroxidation and reduce the content of lipid peroxide in tissues, thus avoiding the damage of harmful substances to the structure and function of tissues and cells.
Enhance immunity
Atractylodes macrocephala can enhance the phagocytosis of white blood cells on Staphylococcus aureus, thus enhancing the body's immunity.
Edible method of Atractylodes macrocephala
Braised beef with atractylodes macrocephala
Ingredients: beef, Atractylodes macrocephala, coriander; Accessories: cooking oil, sesame oil, cooking wine, vinegar, salt, soy sauce and monosodium glutamate. Practice: Cook the beef and pour it with soy sauce; Hot oil pan, add beef and fry until golden brown; Remove the oil, cut it into large pieces and put it in a plate; Then cut Atractylodes macrocephala and Coriander into sections, put them in a dish, and add seasoning; Finally, steam the plate for a quarter of an hour and then eat it. Efficacy: beef strengthens the body and bones, and tonifies the middle and qi; Atractylodes macrocephala enhances appetite, benefits qi and strengthens yin. The combination of the two can replenish the middle energizer, strengthen the spleen and regulate the stomach.
Pork belly porridge with white pork.
Ingredients: Atractylodes macrocephala, pork tripe, japonica rice, ginger, seasoning. Practice: Wrap the pork belly, Atractylodes macrocephala and ginger in gauze, put them in a casserole and cook them with strong fire until the pork belly is rotten; Take out the pig's belly for later use; Finally, put the japonica rice into the soup and cook it into porridge, add pork belly and seasoning, and eat it from the pot. Efficacy: It has the effects of stimulating appetite, promoting digestion, regulating qi and regulating middle energizer. This kind of porridge is especially suitable for people with poor appetite.
Wuwei Jianpi porridge
Ingredients: Radix Codonopsis, Rhizoma Dioscoreae, Poria, White Lentils, Atractylodis Rhizoma, 30g each, and appropriate amount of rice, millet and salt. Practice: cut the codonopsis pilosula into small pieces, wash it with other medicinal materials, and then soak it in clear water for more than two hours; Wash rice and millet; Pouring the soaked medicinal materials into a pot, and pouring the water for soaking the medicinal materials; Add a proper amount of water and cook in a pressure cooker for about 20 minutes; You can eat porridge with salt! Efficacy: It can strengthen the spleen, eliminate dampness, regulate and nourish the stomach, and is suitable for people with heavy body moisture and teeth marks on the tongue.
It is advisable to avoid yin deficiency and thirst, and those who are stagflation and stuffy should avoid taking it.
① Notes in the Materia Medica: "Fangfeng and Sanguisorba are used for it."
② Drug meaning: "Any patient with qi stagnation, abdominal distension and stagnation, wheezing and hyperemia, stomach pain caused by fire, gangrene and pus discharge, and black, thin and swollen body should be avoided. Note: it must be used according to the doctor's regulations, because the individual constitution is different.