The 6 Ways To Eat Cistanche Cistanche And This Is The Best Way To Eat!
Mar 16, 2022
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Cistanches, known as "desert ginseng", has high medicinal value and health benefits, and there are many different ways to consume them. So, which is the better way to consume Cistanche and make the best use of its efficacy? Cistanches are warm in nature, not hot, so soup and wine are the best ways to consume them.

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"Chinese herbal medicine is about the local nature, and in the Alashan region of Inner Mongolia, local people consume desert cistanches, first of all, to make soup, and also to make wine, both of which can maximize the efficacy of cistanches." Cistanches can be stewed with tonic things such as oyster chicken, lamb, and beef, which can also keep the cold out in winter.
For methods such as making tea and stir-frying, its medicinal value is not as high as that of soup and medicinal wine. "Although it is easier to make tea, it is not enough for a short time to fully release the active ingredients of Cistanche. Steaming and stewing are almost as effective, but stir-frying is less effective than stewing, and the most advocated is still soup, which can also be used to make porridge, which is an extension of soup."
Different formulas have different effects on men and women, for example, stewing with uggs, dates, saffron, and cistanches can regulate menstrual blood in women, and stewing with lockjaw, ginger, scallions, and cistanches is good for kidney tonic in men.
Serving method.
Cistanche wine
1. Cistanches wine: 200g of Cistanches is soaked in 3kg of white wine after 7-15 days, drink 10-30ml daily.
2. Cistanches and wolfberries wine: 200g of Cistanches and 100g of lockjaw, 30g of asparagus, 50g of wolfberries, soak in 3kg of white wine for 7-15 days and drink 10-30ml daily.
3, Cistanches cuscutae wine: Cistanches 30g silk seeds 20g, put into 500g white wine and soak and drink. After drinking, you can continue to add white wine to soak.

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Cistanches porridge
1、Cistanche cistanche and lamb porridge
Ingredients: 20g of Cistanches, 100g of fine lamb, 100 g of round-grained rice, a little salt, white onion, and ginger.
Preparation: Wash and finely cut the meat of Cistanches, decoct the juice of Cistanches in a casserole and remove the dregs, add the lamb and round-grained rice and boil it with salt, ginger, and green onion to make a thin porridge.
Usage: 1 time a day, breakfast or evening meal, suitable for winter consumption.
2, Cistanches rice porridge
Ingredients: Cistanches 10g, rice 100 g, sugar.
Preparation: wash Cistanches, put it into a tile pot with water, fry it for 35 minutes, take the juice and remove the residue, put the rice into a pot, add Cistanches juice and water, boil it on a high flame, change the flame to cook it into a porridge, and finally mix in sugar.
Usage: Eat once a day with a regular meal.

Cistanche soup
1,Cistanche barbadensis lamb soup
Ingredients: 60g of lamb, 15g of barberry, 15g of cistanche, 20g of coix seeds, ginger, and garlic.
Preparation: Wash and cut the lamb, cook with the above medicine, first boil with a military fire, change the fire to cook for 3 hours, seasoning for consumption.
2, Cistanche Wu Chicken Soup: Cistanche 30g, Wu Chicken 1, auxiliary ingredients, seasoning stew.
3, Cistanche pork elbow soup: Cistanche 30g, pork elbow 400g, auxiliary ingredients, seasoning stew.
Cistanches in tea
1. Raw materials: walnut meat, cistanches, fried white atractylodes 10g each, Sichuan rhubarb 5g.
Preparation: break all the above ingredients into small pieces, put them into a thermos bottle, add boiling water about 1500 ml, cover the bottle tightly and soak for 3 hours and drink. Pour tea with gauze wrapped tightly around the mouth of the bottle to prevent the dregs from pouring out.
Usage: Drink 500 ml daily, in two doses on an empty stomach. Take each dose for 3 days and continue until constipation disappears.

Stir-fried vegetables with Cistanche
1、Stir-fried shrimp with Cistanche: 30g of Cistanche powder, 250g of shrimp, auxiliary ingredients, and seasoning stir-fried.
2、Stir-fried Cistanches with lumbar flowers: 30g of powdered Cistanches, 250g of pork lumbar flowers, stir-fried with auxiliary ingredients and seasonings.
3、Stir-fried phoenix breast with cistanche: 30g of cistanche, 250g of chicken breast, stir-fried with auxiliary ingredients and seasonings.
Steamed vegetables with Cistanche
1、Steamed green eel with Cistanche: 30g of Cistanche powder, 1 green eel (750 g), steamed with auxiliary ingredients and seasonings.
2、Steamed prawns with Cistanche: 20g of Cistanche powder, 500 g of prawns, steamed with auxiliary ingredients.
3、Steamed pigeon with Cistanche: 30g of Cistanche, 1 pigeon, and steamed with auxiliary ingredients and seasonings.






