Post Date December, 03 2023
What are the recipes for the emperor to strengthen the yang and kidney? Qianlong became the emperor for 60 years and lived to 89 years old, which is a miracle in Chinese history. It is inseparable from his attention to health preservation. Drinking various kinds of long-lived medicinal liquor is one of his main methods of health preservation. According to the records of Qianlong Medical Records, the most popular health preserving medicinal liquor of Emperor Qianlong is Guiling Liquor and Songling Taiping Spring Liquor. The former can cure diseases, strengthen yang and kidney, nourish qi and keep fit, while the latter is a good medicine for activating blood, promoting qi, strengthening spleen and calming nerves.
Although the two drugs seem to be different, the coincidence is that in the dozens of traditional Chinese medicine ingredients contained in the two kinds of medicinal wine, both of them appear ripe ground and angelica. So, is there anything particular about the collocation of cooked ground and angelica? Cooked ground, sweet, slightly warm, can nourish yin, tonify kidney, fill essence, and mainly treat pale complexion, dizziness and palpitation caused by blood deficiency; The waist and knees are weak, dizziness, and early white hair and beard due to kidney essence deficiency; The eyes are dry and dry with insufficient liver yin.
The root of Angelica sinensis is used to nourish and harmonize blood. It mainly treats irregular menstruation, blood deficiency, dizziness, sores and other diseases. Angelica sinensis is divided into three parts: Guitou, Guishen and Guiwei. Each part contains different chemical components, so its pharmacological effects are different. Guitou can stop bleeding, Guishen can nourish blood, Guiwei can promote blood. It can be used in parts or all.
The reason why both of the two kinds of medicinal wine that Qianlong liked to drink contain cooked ground and angelica is that traditional Chinese medicine believes that yin and blood are homologous, and that nourishing blood and nourishing yin should be carried out simultaneously. Angelica and cooked ground have two major advantages. One is to achieve the purpose of nourishing yin by nourishing blood, and nourishing yin is one of the effective methods of nourishing blood.
Second, Angelica sinensis itself has very good blood activating function, which can replenish without stagnation. The combination of Radix Rehmanniae and Angelica sinensis is far better than a single drug. Although Angelica sinensis is also called the medicine for women because of its blood tonic effect, it is also important for men to activate blood and replenish blood. In particular, as the elderly grow older, kidney yin and kidney essence are deficient, and qi, blood and semen are dark, which should be supplemented in time.
Here, we recommend a Tonic Diet "Cooked Radix Angelicae Mutton Soup". The raw materials to be prepared are: 700g mutton, 30g cooked Radix Rehmanniae, 15g Angelicae, 30g astragalus, several dates, and 3 pieces of ginger. After the raw materials are prepared, cut the washed mutton into small pieces, blanch it with boiling water to remove the blood foam.
The specific method is to put the prepared mutton into a pot with a proper amount of water, and then put ginger, rehmannia glutinosa, angelica, and astragalus into it, and cook it for three hours with a gentle fire. This is to make the effective ingredients of the Chinese medicine fully dissolve in the soup. After three hours, put the Chinese date into it, and then add a proper amount of sugar, salt, monosodium glutamate, etc., and then cook it for 15 minutes with a gentle fire. In autumn and winter, eating cooked angelica mutton soup can not only moisten dryness, but also increase yang.
