How to eat raw Polygonum multiflorum?

How should this raw Polygonum multiflorum be eaten in the best way? Many people don't know what Polygonum multiflorum is. In fact, Polygonum multiflorum is a common Chinese medicinal material. In traditional Chinese medicine, this Polygonum multiflorum can also help treat many diseases and improve the adverse symptoms of the disease. However, Polygonum multiflorum has two types: raw and cooked. Many people do not process Polygonum multiflorum and eat it raw directly, but they don't know how to eat it well. So how to eat raw Polygonum multiflorum?

1. Immortal Shouwu Congee

Ingredients: 50ml of prepared Shouwu juice, 10g black beans, 10g soybeans, 10 peanut kernels, 5 red dates, and 2 walnut kernels.

Preparation method: Wash the above raw materials, soak them in clean water for 1 hour, pour the soaked raw materials and medicinal juice into a pressure cooker, add appropriate amount of clean water, and steam for about 15 minutes.

Efficacy: Nourishes the liver and kidneys, strengthens the brain and improves intelligence, and moistens the intestines and promotes bowel movements. It is suitable for symptoms such as dizziness, tinnitus, insomnia, forgetfulness, constipation, decreased vision, spermatorrhea, and weakness in the waist and knees caused by insufficient liver and kidney yin and blood. This meal also has good blood sugar lowering, blood lipid lowering, intelligence improving and anti-aging effects. It is an excellent food therapy for people with diabetes, hyperlipidemia, coronary heart disease, hypertension and arteriosclerosis. Healthy people can eat it regularly to improve intelligence and brain health, beautify the skin, strengthen the body and prevent aging.

2. Shouwu Lipid-Lowering Porridge

Ingredients: 30g processed Polygonum multiflorum, 30g raw hawthorn, 15g Cassia seed, 10g Poria, 10g Alisma orientalis, 100g polished rice, and 15g crystal sugar.

Preparation method: Wash processed Polygonum multiflorum, raw hawthorn, Cassia seed, Poria cocos, and Alisma orientalis, soak them in water for about 1 hour, boil them in a casserole for 40 minutes, remove the residue and take the juice; wash the polished rice, mix it with the juice and put it into a casserole, add appropriate amount of water to cook porridge, when the porridge is almost done, add rock sugar and cook it for a while.

Efficacy: Nourishes the liver and kidneys, strengthens the spleen and promotes diuresis, lowers blood lipids and blood pressure. It is suitable for insomnia, dizziness, forgetfulness and other symptoms caused by blood deficiency and malnutrition of the heart and liver, as well as premature graying of hair, soreness of the waist and knees and so on caused by liver and kidney deficiency. It is especially suitable for people with hyperlipidemia, hypertension and obesity. Regular consumption by healthy people can help to invigorate the brain, refresh the mind, darken the beard and improve eyesight, and prevent hypertension and arteriosclerosis.

Raw Polygonum multiflorum can be eaten according to these preparation methods. Polygonum multiflorum does not necessarily have to be processed before it can be eaten. Just slice the raw Polygonum multiflorum, and then use the Polygonum multiflorum to soak in wine. The soaking time can be a little longer, so that the efficacy of Polygonum multiflorum will be exerted at its best. When eating Polygonum multiflorum, you must reduce the dosage, and frequent consumption is not good.