What are the taboos of Cordyceps Flower and how to eat it for the best effect?

Many people usually pay attention to their physical health and always take some health care products, especially some precious ingredients, such as Cordyceps flower, which is a very rare and precious medicinal material, but you must understand its eating taboos to maximize its value.

1. Taboos on eating Cordyceps flowers

1. It is best not to wash the Cordyceps flower before use, because washing will cause the fungal spore powder with therapeutic effects attached to the Cordyceps flower body to be lost, thus affecting its original edible efficacy. However, if you buy Cordyceps flowers in bulk, they have been touched by many people and may not look very clean. You can wash them before use, but do not soak them for too long.

2. When making soup with cordyceps flowers, remember not to cook them for a long time, in order to avoid the loss of the original fragrance and destruction of the nutrients. Generally, add the cordyceps flower mycelium before the soup is ready, and then cook over low heat for about 30 minutes.

3. If you use a stewing pot to make cordyceps flower soup, the stewing time should be controlled within 2 hours.

4. It is recommended that you do not add MSG or other seasonings to soups or stews because the soup already tastes delicious enough.

5. People who are allergic to fungi and patients who are taking monoamine oxidase inhibitors or anticoagulants should not eat Cordyceps flowers.

2. The efficacy and function of Cordyceps flower

The efficacy and function of Cordyceps flower: Regulating the immune system

It can restore people with low immune function to normal levels and improve the abnormally high immune state, thereby maintaining the stability of the body. Therefore, Cordyceps is called a dual immune regulator.

The efficacy and function of Cordyceps flower 2: Improving cell energy

Cordyceps flowers can directly improve the human body's energy hardware factory, improve the body's ability to withstand cold, and reduce fatigue.

The efficacy and function of Cordyceps flower 3: Regulating heart function

It can improve the heart's tolerance to hypoxia and reduce the heart's oxygen consumption.

4. How to eat Cordyceps flower:

1. Steamed duck with cordyceps flowers

Ingredients: 1 tender female duck, weighing about 1500 grams, 18 grams of cordyceps flowers, cooking wine, onion, ginger, MSG, and salt as appropriate.

Preparation method: Remove the feathers from the duck, open its belly and discard the intestines and internal organs, wash it, stuff the Cordyceps sinensis into the duck's belly, place it in a large porcelain bowl, add ginger, salt and cooking wine, steam it until cooked through, and sprinkle a little MSG into the sauce.

2. Cordyceps Flower Congee

Ingredients: 3 grams of ginseng, 3 grams of poria cocos, 3 grams of ophiopogon japonicus, 80 grams of black rice, 3 grams of cordyceps flower, 15 grams of northern sugar, and cook according to the usual method.

Applicable to: hyperlipidemia, high cholesterol, coronary heart disease, and senile edema.

3. Cordyceps Flower Pigeon Soup

Ingredients: 10g Cordyceps flower, 1 baby pigeon, 30g fish maw, 1 slice of ginger

Method: Wash the baby pigeon, cordyceps flowers and ginger, soak the isinglass, wash and cut into shreds, put all the ingredients into a stewing pot, add appropriate amount of water and a little wine, stew for 2 hours, season and serve.