What are the ways to consume Cistanche deserticola powder?

I believe everyone is familiar with ginseng, and I believe everyone is also familiar with Cistanche deserticola, which is known as the "desert ginseng" and has extremely high medicinal value. It is a traditional Chinese precious medicinal material. Such a precious medicinal material must have its outstanding features. So, if we want to bring out its efficacy, how should we eat it? Today, let’s take a look at how to consume Cistanche deserticola powder.

Cistanche deserticola is a pure natural nourishing product and can be eaten directly. Soak Cistanche in wine. After about a week, its effective ingredients will enter the wine. Drinking this wine can have a nourishing effect. Soak the Cistanche deserticola in wine for about a week, then take it out and slice it for stir-frying or making soup. It will be cooked in 3 minutes.

1. Cistanche wine

1. Cistanche wine: Soak 200g of Cistanche in 3kg of liquor for 7-15 days, and drink 10-30ml daily.

2. Cistanche and wolfberry wine: 200g Cistanche, 100g Cynomorium songaricum, 30g Gastrodia elata, 50g wolfberry, put into 3kg white wine, soak for 7-15 days, drink 10-30ml daily.

3. Cistanche and Cuscuta wine: 30g Cistanche and 20g Cuscuta, soak in 500g white wine and drink.

2. Cistanche porridge

1. Cistanche Lamb Congee

Ingredients: 15g Cistanche deserticola, 100g lean mutton, 100g polished rice, a pinch of refined salt, 2 stalks of green onion, and 3 slices of ginger.

Preparation: Wash and finely chop the Cistanche and mutton, fry the Cistanche in a casserole to extract the juice and remove the residue, add the mutton and rice and cook together. After boiling, add salt, ginger and scallion and cook into a thin porridge.

Usage: Eat for breakfast or supper, suitable for winter, one course of treatment is 5-7 days.

Efficacy: Nourishes the kidney, boosts yang, strengthens the spleen, nourishes the stomach, moistens the intestines and promotes bowel movements. It is suitable for patients suffering from impotence, spermatorrhea, premature ejaculation, female infertility, cold pain in waist and knees, frequent urination, nocturnal polyuria and enuresis caused by kidney yang deficiency.

2. Cistanche Rice Porridge

Ingredients: 10g Cistanche deserticola, 100g rice, and appropriate amount of white sugar.

Preparation: Wash the Cistanche deserticola, put it into a clay pot with water, simmer for 35 minutes, take the juice and remove the residue, wash the rice and put it into the pot, add the Cistanche deserticola juice and water, boil it over high heat, then simmer it into porridge, finally add sugar.

Usage: Take once a day with meals.

Efficacy: Warms and nourishes kidney yang, suitable for breakfast for patients with coldness.

3. Cistanche Soup

1. Cistanche and Morinda officinalis mutton soup

Ingredients: 60g mutton, 15g Morinda officinalis, 15g Cistanche deserticola, 20g Coix seed, 3 slices of ginger, 30g garlic.

Preparation: Wash the mutton, cut into pieces, and cook it with the above medicines. Boil it over high heat first, then simmer for 3 hours over low heat, and season before serving.

Usage: One course of treatment is 5-7 days or as directed by your doctor.

Efficacy: Suitable for clear and thin ear pus, decreased hearing, stomach cold, back pain, dizziness, tinnitus, frequent urination at night, pale tongue with white coating, and deep and thin pulse.

2. Cynomorium beef soup

Ingredients: Cynomorium songaricum 15g Curculigo 9g Lycium barbarum 15g Rosa laevigata 9g Rehmannia glutinosa 9g Cuscuta australis 9g Dioscorea opposita 15g Beehive 9g Epimedium 9g Schisandra chinensis 6g Beef 300g Yellow Dog Whip 30g Zanthoxylum bungeanum 3g Ginger 10g Cooking wine 5g Pepper powder 3g Onion 10g Refined salt 5g MSG 3g.

Preparation: Wash the above medicines and put them into a stew pot, add water and boil for 45 minutes, filter out the liquid medicine, add water and boil for 25 minutes, filter out the residue, combine the liquid medicine for later use; wash the beef and cut into pieces, put the beef, dog penis, ginger, onion and pepper into the stew pot, add the clear water liquid medicine, add salt, cooking wine and other seasonings, bring to a boil over high heat, then simmer over low heat for 3.5 hours.

Usage: 2 times a week, eat beef and drink soup.

Efficacy: Nourishes the kidney, strengthens yang, produces sperm and replenishes marrow. It is suitable for patients with premature ejaculation, spermatorrhea, impotence, etc.

Well, let's stop here regarding the method of consuming Cistanche powder. In fact, based on China's thousands of years of culture, there are many ways to eat Cistanche, but if you want to make it delicious and effective, it still depends on the skills of the housewives in the kitchen.