Desert Ginseng Is Warm But Not Dry

Mar 11, 2022


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How to tonify scientifically?

Zhao Wei, Doctor of Traditional Chinese Medicine, who was the director of the Department of Nephrology, traditional Chinese Medicine Hospital of Guangzhou Medical University, recommends using Cistanche deserticola to simmer soup. Because of the functions of its Tonifying Kidney Yang, benefiting physical essence and blood and diploid increasing the Yin/Yang balance. Meanwhile, the character of the medicine is calm and gentle. It is one of the clinical mild tonifying medicines.

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The characters of Cistanche deserticola

Cistanche deserticola, which is recorded by Shennong’s classic of materia medica as the top nourishing product. The Cistanche grown in the Gobi in Wulatehou Banner, Inner Mongolia is big, thick, and sweet. Which is known as the "desert ginseng".


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Cistanche deserticola in traditional Chinese pharmacopeias

Cistanche deserticola is warm, sweet, and salty. It belongs to the kidney and large intestine meridian. According to the collection of materia medica: "Cistanche deserticola is a medicine that can nourish vital cruxes, nourish kidney and replenish essence and blood. It also can enhance the power of the deferent duct and warm the cold kidney, keep the balance of women’s menstruation and remittance the disharmony. It is a gentle tonic. It is warm but not hot, tonic but not severe, warm but not dry, slippery but not cathartic, so it has the name of calm(Chinese name “congrong” means calm and the Chinese name of Cistanche is also “Congrong”)." Some modern researchers have been found that Cistanche can alleviate constipation, regulate the endocrine, and promote central nervous function, It also can improve the vitality of phagocytes and enhance human immunity. However, attention should be paid that Cistanche should not be cooked with copper and iron cookers, and people who have gastrointestinal weakness and diarrhea are prohibited to use it; The people who have heat in the kidney, easy to erect, and those with weak essence should avoid it.

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Cistanche deserticola lamb chop soup

Let's recommend a therapeutic formula - Cistanche deserticola lamb chop soup.

Ingredients: 20g Cistanche deserticola, 500g lamb chops, 5 red dates, and 3 slices of ginger.

Method: remove the impurities from the Cistanche deserticola, wash and cut it into thick pieces. Wash and chop the lamb chops, then put them into a casserole, stir fry them in an appropriate method, add water and boil them with high fire, remove the blood foam, add Cistanche deserticola, red dates, and ginger slices, stew for 1.5 hours until the lamb chops are soft and cooked, and then seasoning and taking them.

Efficacy: tonifying kidney, benefiting essence and blood, strengthening tendons and marrow. This recipe can be used for impotence, spermatorrhea, cold pain of waist and knee, palace cold infertility, and so on.

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