Can Cistanche be eaten directly?

In recent years, with the popularity of traditional Chinese medicine health care, the Chinese herbal medicine market has also become hot. People's attention to Cistanche deserticola has also increased accordingly. Cistanche deserticola is a precious Chinese herbal medicine, known as desert ginseng. It is an excellent food for nourishing the kidneys, strengthening yang, nourishing blood and moistening dryness. It has high medicinal value and has a good therapeutic effect when used as medicine. There are many ways to eat Cistanche, it can be stewed, boiled, or fried. So can Cistanche be eaten directly? Let me give you a detailed introduction below.

First of all, Cistanche deserticola is mainly eaten as a stew. Generally, you can add Cistanche and other kidney-tonifying medicines together with chicken and stew them in soup. After drying, you can boil water to drink.

The role of Cistanche deserticola:

1. Cistanche deserticola is rich in bioalkali, crystalline neutral substances, amino acids, trace elements, vitamins and other ingredients. It can replenish kidney yang, benefit essence and blood, inhibit the occurrence of "yang deficiency" symptoms and prevent weight loss. It can effectively prevent and treat male kidney deficiency, impotence, spermatorrhea, premature ejaculation and female menstrual disorders, amenorrhea and infertility.

2. Cistanche can significantly increase the propulsion speed of the small intestine and shorten the defecation time. At the same time, it also has a significant inhibitory effect on the water absorption of the large intestine, thereby promoting the moistening and excretion of feces, and has a real intestinal moisturizing and laxative effect.

3. Cistanche can also enhance immune function. Cistanche polysaccharide has a significant effect on the formation and activity of human lymphocytes. It can increase the proliferation response of lymphocytes, thereby enhancing the body's immune function.

4. Cistanche can also regulate the circulatory system and has the following effects: protecting ischemic myocardium; lowering blood lipids, resisting atherosclerosis and thrombosis; reducing peripheral vascular resistance, dilating peripheral blood vessels, and lowering blood pressure; protecting the liver and resisting fatty liver.

5. The phenylbutyric acid contained in Cistanche deserticola is an ingredient not found in other medicines. It is the most effective ingredient in delaying aging. Cistanche deserticola has a significant effect in delaying the aging of the human pituitary gland, gonads, thymus and other parts.

Cistanche deserticola medicinal diet:

1. Cistanche and mutton soup: Chop 15 grams of Cistanche into pieces and put it in a casserole. Fry until Cistanche is cooked and then take the juice. Chop 150 grams of mutton and put it in the casserole. Add the juice and appropriate amount of water and bring to a boil. Simmer over low heat until the mutton is cooked. Add appropriate amounts of onion, ginger and salt, and thicken with water starch. This product is used for its effect of warming and nourishing kidney yang, and is suitable for people with sexual dysfunction, the elderly, and those suffering from long-term illness and physical weakness. Healthy people can take it regularly.

2. Cistanche Chicken: Cut a black rooster into pieces, blanch it in boiling water to remove the blood, put the chicken pieces and 30 grams of Cistanche in a casserole, add 50 grams of white wine, scallion, ginger and water, bring to a boil, simmer until the chicken is cooked through, pick out the scallion and ginger, add pepper, salt and MSG. This product is used for its effect of warming and nourishing kidney yang, and is suitable for sexual hunger and thirst dysfunction, chronic prostatitis, chronic nephritis, neurasthenia, and physical weakness in the elderly.

3. Cistanche stewed with lamb kidneys: remove the smell and bones of a pair of lamb kidneys, slice them, put 30 grams of Cistanche into a gauze bag, put both into a casserole, add appropriate amount of water and boil the soup until cooked, pick out the gauze bag, add salt and it is done. This product is used for its kidney-tonifying and yang-strengthening effects. It is suitable for kidney-yang deficiency syndromes such as sexual dysfunction, chronic prostatitis, prostatic hypertrophy, neurasthenia, cold pain and weakness in the waist and knees.

The above is the little knowledge I introduced to you about whether Cistanche can be eaten directly. Cistanche is an excellent health product. It can not only improve immunity, but also regulate blood circulation, moisten the intestines and promote bowel movements. It has many benefits, so you may as well try it. It should be noted that people with yin deficiency and hyperactivity of fire should not eat Cistanche deserticola, and minors, pregnant women, and people during menstruation should not eat Cistanche deserticola.