Eight ingredients make up the cake: codonopsis, atractylodes macrocephala, poria, Job's tear grains, lotus seed meat, fructus gravy, yam and white lentils. Most of these ingredients are medicinal and food products, they are combined together to become a miraculous medicine to regulate the spleen and stomach, with magical powers, let's take a look at it, Codonopsis is a good medicine to tonify the middle and benefit the qi, often used to treat the spleen and lungs weak, shortness of breath and palpitations, less food and loose stools, deficiency wheezing and coughing, and internal heat and thirst and other evidence. The Materia Medica from the New says: "It tonifies the center of the body and benefits the qi, harmonizes the spleen and stomach, and removes vexation and thirst. The middle qi is weak, used to tonify, it is very peaceful and proper." It means that the biggest role of Dangshen is to tonify the middle qi, and if a person's spleen and stomach are weak, he can use Dangshen to tonify them. Dangshen is flat in nature, it is the main medicine in this formula, used to nourish the spleen, but we do not use a large amount, usually about thirty grams. Children replace Codonopsis with Radix et Rhizoma Ginseng: it tonifies the qi, nourishes the spleen and lungs, and benefits the qi and the body.

Atractylodes macrocephala is commonly used in Chinese medicine, it has the function of strengthening the spleen and benefiting the qi, drying dampness and inducing diuresis. Atractylodes macrocephala is characterized by "keep but not go", which means that it is a master of keeping things in order. If we compare Dangshen to the king of the country, its role is to open up the territory, then, Atractylodes macrocephala is the minister of guarding, the king of the country to the spleen and stomach position to be captured, then Atractylodes macrocephala can be guarded. In the Eight Treasures Cake, Atractylodes Macrocephalae and Codonopsis work in tandem to nourish the spleen and Yang, and they are the core of the formula to tonify the center of the body and benefit the qi, and atractylodes Macrocephalae I usually use thirty grams.

Poria cocos is an anti-dampness drug that has the effect of tonifying the spleen, but Poria cocos tonifies the spleen by draining dampness. According to Chinese medicine, the spleen belongs to the earth, and the earth hates water and dampness, Poria can help the spleen and earth to remove water and dampness. The foods in Pat Chun Cake each have their own power and direction, they adjust the qi, both ascending and descending. Poria is the first to descend and then to ascend, it lowers the water while making the Spleen-Qi rise. We can compare the Spleen Qi to a balloon. If the balloon has a bucket of water hanging underneath it, there is no way for the balloon to rise up, but if we pour the water out, then the balloon will fly up to the sky. Poria is like that, it elevates spleen yang by removing dampness. In this Pat Chun Cake, Poria serves as an upward force, with the main task of pushing Spleen Qi upward. I usually use about fifty grams.

Coix lacryma is a food with a sweet, light flavor, slightly cold nature, belonging to the spleen, stomach and lung meridians, and has the effect of strengthening the spleen and inducing diuresis, inducing dampness and removing paralysis, and clearing heat and draining pus. The greatest ability of this medicine is that it can get rid of the dampness and turbidity in our body. Chinese medicine practitioners often use Job's tears in the treatment of lung carbuncle and intestinal carbuncle. It is worth noting that although Coix Seed dispels dampness, it is very different from Poria, Poria dispels dampness, the medicinal properties are upward; Coix Seed dispels dampness, the medicinal properties are downward. These two medicines one up, one down, one up, one down, together with the force, will make the round in the human body to run up. Chinese medicine has a common sense, is in the nourishing time, the first to get rid of the body's dampness, dampness is not removed, will affect the effect of nourishment, and this Coix Seed is the best thing to get rid of dampness. So, how to use Coix Seed? I generally look at the patient's tongue, if the tongue is thick, the amount of Coix Seed is used more, will be used to about one hundred grams; if the tongue is thin, with fifty grams can be.

In addition to this, lotus seed meat has the function of clearing the heart and waking up the spleen, tranquilizing the spirit and brightening the eyes, and tonifying the middle and nourishing the spirit; Gorgon fruit enters the spleen and kidney meridians, and it has the function of fixing the kidney and astringent essence, tonifying the spleen and stopping the leakage; and yam has the function of strengthening the spleen and tonifying the lungs, and fixing the kidney and benefiting the essence. These three medicines have a **** the same characteristics: is in the spleen at the same time, but also has the role of astringent. In general, when we use tonic medicine, the biggest worry is that with the tonic with the dispersion, the body can not really absorb, and the application of these three medicinal herbs, so that the nutrients in the tonic, can be astringent. The dosage of these three medicines is usually fifty grams.

Finally, the white lentil, white lentil to the spleen, stomach two meridians, with the spleen and the middle, the role of dampness and summer, we generally use it to treat summer dampness caused by diarrhea. White lentils usually use thirty grams, if the user usually dry stools, do not need to use white lentils to astringent diarrhea, I usually remove the white lentils, with almonds fifty grams to replace, because the almonds have to open the lungs to pass the role of the large intestine.

In the eight precious cakes this formula, yam, lotus seed meat, white lentils are nourishing spleen yin; Codonopsis and atractylodes are nourishing spleen yang; Poria and Job's tears are eliminating dampness; Gorgon fruit is astringent. In this way, the whole formula has yin and yang, ascending and descending, calm and biased, no wonder some people say, eight treasures cake is the first cake of the millennium health. The inventor of Pat Chun cake, Ming Dynasty doctor Chen Gongshi said, a weak spleen and stomach, if you take the Pat Chun cake after 100 days, he will be light and bright, energy, its wonderful place is difficult to describe.

The practice of the Eight Precious Cakes is to first research these medicines into powder, and then glutinous rice, rice research into powder, and then mixed with the medicine powder, according to the amount of medicine we wrote earlier, the weight of rice and glutinous rice are two hundred grams (infants can change the glutinous rice into lotus root powder), and then these rice powder and medicine powder into the water and become a noodle, you can add a little bit of sugar, and then put in a cage drawer to steam, steamed, and after the steam is cut into cakes, drying, for storage. It can then be steamed in a cage drawer, steamed, cut into cakes and dried for storage. You can also directly put the medicine powder in the water and boil it into a paste, and then drink it. Now there are also finished products of eight precious cakes, if you can buy it is also good.