How to eat Cistanche deserticola

Cistanche is a very precious medicinal material with very high medicinal value. So how should you take it? For example, you can make tea with Cistanche deserticola. The method is very simple. Cut the Cistanche deserticola into slices and put it into boiled water, usually at 80 degrees Celsius. The method is simple and nutritious, and can help moisturize the intestines and promote bowel movements. A slightly more complicated method is to make scented tea by adding a little rose or chrysanthemum. The scented tea made in this way can help strengthen the spleen and stomach, reduce internal heat, improve endocrine disorders, etc.

1. Cistanche and Lamb Soup

Chop 15 grams of Cistanche deserticola into pieces and put it in a casserole. Fry it until it is cooked and then take out the juice. Chop 150 grams of mutton into pieces 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.

Edible effects: Warms and nourishes kidney yang, treats kidney deficiency. It is often used by people with sexual dysfunction, the elderly, and those who are weak due to long-term illness. Healthy people can also take it regularly.

2. Cistanche chicken

Cut a black rooster into pieces, blanch it in boiling water to remove the blood, then take it out. Put the chicken pieces and 30 grams of Cistanche deserticola in a casserole, add 50 grams of white wine, scallion, ginger and water in appropriate amounts, bring to a boil, and simmer over low heat until the chicken is cooked through. Pick out the scallion and ginger, and add pepper, salt and MSG.

Edible effects: Warming and nourishing kidney yang, nourishing the liver. It is very suitable for sexual hunger dysfunction, chronic prostatitis, chronic nephritis, neurasthenia, and physical weakness in the elderly.

3. Cistanche stewed with lamb kidneys

Remove the smell and bones from 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 until the soup is cooked, pick out the gauze bag, add salt and it is done.

Edible effects: Nourishes the kidney and strengthens yang, suitable for kidney yang deficiency symptoms such as sexual dysfunction, chronic prostatitis, neurasthenia, prostate hypertrophy, cold pain and weakness in the waist and knees.

Some can also be soaked in wine. Pour a certain amount of Cistanche and white wine together, and you can also add some wolfberry or the like in it. It is also okay not to add it. It can be drunk after about a week. This is very suitable for men's health and nourishment. You can also cook Cistanche into porridge, such as Cistanche and mutton porridge. Prepare Cistanche, mutton, and rice, and then cook it into porridge. It is very helpful for treating cold pain in the waist and knees and constipation.