Calmly Tonic Cistanche

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Cistanche has the word "meat" in its name. It looks like a succulent plant. It looks fleshy and juicy. It tastes like meat, which can replenish deficiencies and relieve deficiencies. Cistanche in my country’s first monograph on traditional Chinese medicine "Shen Nong's Materia Medica", listed as the "top grade" for tonic; Countries in the Western Regions offered tribute to the imperial court; now, it enjoys the reputation of "desert ginseng" and is listed as one of China's three major tonics along with ginseng and deer antler. Li Shizhen’s "Compendium of Materia Medica" records: "This material is nourishing but not stern, so it has the title of easy." Traditional Chinese medicine believes that Cistanche is suitable for insufficient kidney yang, deficiency of essence and blood, impotence and infertility, weakness of waist and knees, weakness of muscles and bones. , Dry intestines, constipation, etc., are precious Chinese medicinal materials.

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As the name suggests, Cistanche is calm and gentle, not fiery like aconite, but it moisturizes things silently. Many compound prescriptions with Cistanche as the main medicine are not ill. For example, the noble medicine in Jichuan Decoction is Cistanche, which can warm the kidneys and nourish the essence, moisten the intestines and lax, and is often used to treat habitual constipation, senile constipation, and postpartum constipation. Jichuan Decoction is often used for constipation due to deficiency of the kidney, body fluid, intestines, and dryness. 

Today, Cistanche is also used in many health medicines and dietary prescriptions. It has the effects of moisturizing the intestines and laxatives, anti-aging, anti-fatigue, enhancing immunity, enhancing memory, etc. It is a good product for both medicine and food.

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Here is a diet therapy recipe for everyone to choose from. Cistanche mutton porridge-suitable for cold weather. Ingredients: 20 grams of Cistanche, 100 grams of mutton, 100 grams of japonica rice, onion, ginger, and salt according to personal taste. Wash and slice the Cistanche and mutton, cut the green onion, and slice the ginger; pour an appropriate amount of water into the casserole, first add the Cistanche and cook for 30 minutes, remove the residue and leave the liquid juice; add the mutton slices, japonica rice, green onions, and ginger, and boil over a fire, Switch to a slow fire and simmer for about 40 minutes, with the lamb and japonica rice cooked as the degree; add a small amount of salt to season. Eat with meals at breakfast and dinner. This medicinal porridge has the effects of invigorating the kidney and yang, invigorating the spleen and stomach, and moistening the intestines. It is suitable for people with kidney yang deficiency who have symptoms such as a thin body, loss of appetite, chills, cold limbs, cold waist and knee pain, frequent nocturia, and low sexual function.

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