What can't be eaten with Shouwu?

Polygonum multiflorum is a common Chinese medicinal material in our daily life, but this does not mean we can ignore its value in traditional Chinese medicine. As a traditional Chinese medicine with a high content of melanin, eating more Polygonum multiflorum can promote the regeneration of black hair. At the same time, Polygonum multiflorum can play an obvious role in delaying aging and preventing atherosclerosis. However, when stewing Polygonum multiflorum, you must understand the foods that cannot be eaten with Polygonum multiflorum.

What should not be eaten with He Shou Wu?

1. No matter whether you are cooking Polygonum multiflorum by boiling, stewing, steaming, soaking in water, etc., the container cannot be made of iron, but ceramic is best. If it is not made of ceramic, the medicinal properties will be weakened.

2. Polygonum multiflorum cannot be eaten with pork, pig blood, and scaleless fish.

3. Polygonum multiflorum cannot be eaten with radish, as eating them together will reduce the medicinal properties of Polygonum multiflorum.

Preparation method

1. Polygonum multiflorum: Take the original medicinal material, remove impurities, wash, soak slightly, moisten thoroughly, cut into thick slices or blocks, dry, and sieve out debris.

2. Prepare Polygonum multiflorum: Take raw Polygonum multiflorum slices or pieces, mix them with black bean juice, moisten them, put them in a non-iron steaming container, seal it, steam or stew it until the juice is absorbed and the medicine turns brown, then take it out and dry it.

How to eat Polygonum multiflorum

Method of consumption: Take with water (the simplest way is to dissolve two spoons of powder with one spoon of warm water, then use boiling water to brew and stir evenly, and it is cooked when it becomes a transparent paste). Then you can add sugar, honey, etc. to taste according to your personal taste.

Method of consumption: Cook. Red dates, wolfberries and longans are common ingredients. First boil the ingredients in water, wait until the soup boils and cook until it is cooked to a certain degree. It is very nutritious and can also beautify the skin.

Method of consumption three: steaming. The simplest way is to add an appropriate amount of Polygonum multiflorum powder to the flour, which can also have a health-care effect and can also be used when making fillings.

Example: Chop the pork into a paste, add eggs, and a little Polygonum multiflorum powder. You can make meatballs, dumplings, or add some as pie fillings. Polygonum multiflorum has the effects of nourishing blood and liver, consolidating essence and kidneys, strengthening the spleen and stomach, and blackening hair. Pork has the effect of replenishing essence and blood, and eggs are yin-nourishing and blood-nourishing products. The combination of these three flavors has a good blood-replenishing effect and has a therapeutic effect on anemia.

Diet recipes

1. Processed Polygonum multiflorum is suitable for nourishing the liver and kidneys and improving the essence and blood; raw Polygonum multiflorum is suitable for moistening the intestines, dispelling wind and detoxifying, and stopping malaria.

2. For those with liver and kidney deficiency, deficiency of essence and blood, soreness of waist and knees, dizziness and tinnitus, premature graying of hair, spermatorrhea and spermatorrhea, it can be used in combination with angelica, wolfberry, and dodder seed.

3. For those with blood deficiency, essence deficiency, lack of intestinal moisture, and hard stools, it can be used with angelica, hemp seed, black fat hemp, etc. to enhance the effect of nourishing blood, moistening the intestines and relieving constipation. If the patient has hemorrhoids and bloody stools, it can be decocted alone or used together with Citrus aurantium.

4. For patients with wind-induced itching and scabies caused by blood deficiency, it can be taken internally with Schizonepeta tenuifolia, Vitex rotundifolia, etc. For patients with long-term malaria and deficiency of both Qi and blood, it can be taken with ginseng, angelica, etc.