What are the ways to consume Astragalus and Angelica?

Astragalus and Angelica are both common Chinese medicines, and they can be used in many cases. The usage rate of Angelica is the highest. You can put some when stewing soup. The soup will taste fresher and its nutrition will be better. The use of Astragalus should be less. The two medicines can be used alone or together. You can also add other medicinal materials together. Different medicinal materials have different effects. Patients can master the relevant edible methods. So what are the edible methods of Astragalus and Angelica?

The methods of consuming Astragalus and Angelica are:

Angelica Blood-Replenishing Soup

Prescription: 50 grams of Astragalus and 10 grams of Angelica.

Usage: Boil two cups of water until only one cup remains, remove the residue and drink warm on an empty stomach.

Function: replenishing qi and generating blood. Mainly used to treat muscle heat, red face, thirst, strong and weak pulse, weak pulse when pressed hard. Also used to treat women during menstruation and postpartum blood to spleen soup.

Prescription: 9 grams each of Astragalus, longan meat, Poria, fried jujube seeds, 6 grams each of Atractylodes, ginseng, 3 grams each of costus root, roasted licorice, Polygala, and Angelica, 3 slices of ginger, and 3 dates.

Usage: Decoction in water.

Function: It can cure various hemorrhagic diseases, nourish blood and calm the mind, nourish the heart and spleen, and regulate menstruation.

Buyang Huanwu Decoction

Prescription: 60g of raw astragalus, 6g each of angelica root and red peony root, 3g each of chuanxiong, peach kernel, safflower and earthworm

Usage: Decoction in water.

Function: Tonify Qi and activate blood circulation, remove blood stasis and dredge meridians. It is used for hemiplegia, facial paralysis, speech difficulties or paraplegia, lower limb atrophy, dry stool, frequent urination and urinary incontinence. This prescription can be used for sequelae of stroke, cerebral thrombosis and sequelae of polio, etc.

Angelica and Lamb Soup

It is suitable for blood deficiency, insufficient qi and blood after illness, and various anemias.

Ingredients: 25 grams of angelica, 25 grams of astragalus, 25 grams of codonopsis, 500 grams of mutton, appropriate amounts of onion, ginger, cooking wine, MSG, and salt.

Preparation: Wash the mutton, put angelica, astragalus and codonopsis into a gauze bag, tie the mouth, put them into the pot together, add onion, ginger, salt, cooking wine and appropriate amount of water, then put the pot on high heat to boil, then simmer over low heat until the mutton is cooked.

How to eat: When eating, add MSG, eat the meat and drink the soup.

Guiqi pigeon soup

20 grams of angelica, 50 grams of astragalus, 20 grams of yam, and 20 grams of red dates. Remove the pigeon's feathers and internal organs, wash and cut into pieces, put them in a casserole, add water, medicine and seasonings and cook until the pigeon meat is well cooked, eat the meat and drink the soup. This prescription has the effect of invigorating qi and blood and replenishing deficiency. It is suitable for symptoms such as physical weakness after illness or postpartum, palpitations and shortness of breath, fatigue, insomnia and forgetfulness, memory loss, poor appetite, as well as anemia, neurosis and menopausal syndrome.

What are the ways to consume Astragalus and Angelica? The article introduces the detailed usage of the medicinal materials, which can be made into various delicious medicinal soups. After adding them to food, the effect will be milder. After consumption, the medicinal properties can be absorbed, which has excellent health care effects on the body. However, we must also pay attention to the combination of various Chinese medicinal materials, and the combination of medicinal materials and food, to avoid the occurrence of incompatibility. At the same time, the amount of medicinal materials added by the patient must be controlled, and the dosage should not be too large, otherwise it will affect the effect after consumption.