Materials: milk, ginkgo, bird's nest.
Method of preparation:
1. Wash the almonds, almonds with water and stew for 10 minutes. (Almonds should go to the supermarket to buy the kind of shelled soft almonds, or buy canned almonds.)
2. Soak the bird's nest in water.
3. Pour ginkgo and bird's nest with skimmed milk and water into a pot and cook for 10 minutes. (There are many types of bird's nest in the market and the price varies. It is recommended to buy bird's nests that cost 300 dollars for one tael, this kind of bird's nest belongs to the middle and low price range, suitable for women's nourishment, and one tael of bird's nest can be divided into 6 servings).
Making Time: 20 minutes
Bird's nest, as a natural nourishing food, can be consumed by both men and women. For different people, bird's nest has different effects.
Women: Eating bird's nest can help maintain the skin, making it moisturized, smooth and elastic, which is one of the secrets for many celebrities to consume bird's nest to maintain their beauty.
Pregnant women: During pregnancy, more than half of the pregnant women in Singapore consume bird's nest. Because bird's nest is rich in active proteins, it can promote the growth of human tissues and improve the immune system.
Stewed Bird's Nest with Rock Sugar and Wolfberry Round
Ingredients:Bird's Nest 3 grams, Wolfberry 6 grams, Cinnamon Round Meat 6 grams, Rock Sugar 30 grams.
Practice
(1) Soak the bird's nest in water, tweeze off the bird's hair and tear it into strips.
(2) Wash goji berries and cinnamon meat.
(3) Pour the bird's nest, stick stick, cinnamon meat with l bowl of boiling water into the stewing pot, stewing pot with a lid, simmering.
(4)When the water in the pot boils, 'first simmer on medium heat for l hour, add rock sugar and then simmer on low heat for 1 hour.
(5) After stewing, take out and serve after warming.
Effects:Nourish blood, moisturize the lungs and relieve cough.
Indications:Palpitation and insomnia, dizziness.
Notes
Lycium barbarum contains betaine, carotene and many kinds of unsaturated fatty acids, etc., can nourish the blood and nourish the yin, and strengthen the eyesight; cinnamon meat contains tartaric acid, adenine bicarbonate of choline and many kinds of vitamins, can replenish the blood and tranquilize the mind and moisturize the five viscera; rock sugar contains a large amount of sugar and many kinds of trace elements, can replenish the middle and benefit the qi, nourish the stomach and moisturize the lungs. Attention and contraindication lung and stomach cold, diarrhea patients should not take; dampness and heat should not be used; diabetic patients are prohibited.
Bird's Nest Stewed with Bletilla
Basic Ingredients 6 to 9 grams of Bletilla, 6 to 9 grams of bird's nest, water
Bird's Nest Stewed with Bletilla is a nourishing tonic, which is good for tonifying the lungs and nourishing the yin, and stopping coughing and bleeding. It is commonly used to treat tuberculosis hemoptysis, chronic bronchitis in the elderly, emphysema, asthma and other diseases.
Food efficacy
Bletilla, is the tuber of the orchid plant Bletilla. Bitter, sweet and cool in nature, into the lung meridian. Containing starch, glucose, volatile oil, mucilage, mannan and so on. It functions to tonify the lungs and stop bleeding, and is often used to treat coughing up blood in lung disorders. Li Gao, a famous doctor in the Jin Dynasty, said that it can "stop blood in the lungs". Yunnan Materia Medica recorded that it "treats consumptive lung qi, replenishes lung deficiency, stops coughing, clears consumptive coughing and bleeding, and astringes lung qi". Modern pharmacological research has proved that Bletilla hyacinthina has hemostatic and weak inhibitory effect on tuberculosis bacillus.
Bird's nest is a nest built by the swiftlet and a variety of bird species of the same genus with saliva or saliva and down and other mixed condensation. It is sweet and flat in nature. It enters the lung, stomach and kidney meridians. It contains protein, sugar, various amino acids, calcium, phosphorus, potassium, sulfur and so on. Functions: nourishing yin and moisturizing dryness, benefiting qi and tonifying the middle. Commonly used in the treatment of deficiency and tubercular infection, cough and phlegm asthma, hemoptysis and hematemesis.
Dosage and Use
Each time, 6 to 9 grams of Bletilla hyacinth and 6 to 9 grams of bird's nest can be used, put them in a tile cup with appropriate amount of water, simmer them under water until very rotten, filter out the dregs, add rock sugar to taste, and simmer them for a few more minutes. Served 1 to 2 times a day.