How to take Cistanche for best results

Cistanche is also known as "desert ginseng" and is a famous herbal medicine for kidney aphrodisiacs in China.

Herba Cistanche White Sheep Kidney Soup

Ingredients: 20 grams of Cistanche cistanche, 2 white sheep kidneys, sheep's fat. 2 white sheep kidneys, 50 grams of sheep fat, 6 grams of wicker, pepper, herb nuts and orange peel in appropriate amounts. How to do it: Wash the cistanches, white kidney and mutton fat, put them in a casserole, wrap the rest of the medicine with gauze and put it in eight pots, add water. Add water, boil on a gentle fire until the kidneys are cooked and the soup is thick, then add seasonings for consumption. Efficacy: treatment of nephritis caused by deficiency of spleen and kidney yang.

Cistanche wine

Ingredients: 30 grams of meat and kidney, 500 grams of white wine. Directions: Soak Cistanches in water, scrape off the scaly skin, wash and slice, soak in wine, and drink after seven days. Serving method: Take one small cup per serving, twice a day. Effects: Tonifying the kidney and benefiting the essence, treating deficiency of kidney yang and spermatorrhea.

Cistanches congee

Ingredients: 15 grams of cistanches, 100 grams of lamb, 10 grams of antler gum (fried and dried), 7 stems of white onion, 2 rooster seeds, 100 grams of round-grained rice Method. 1. Wash and chop the lamb, fry it with Cistanches and white onion, remove the dregs and extract the juice. 2. After the rice into the porridge, cook the antler gum, chicken seeds, stir well. Serving method: Take on an empty stomach. Efficacy: warm yang to replenish deficiency, used to cure the long accumulation of cold and deficiency of yang, body weakness, fear of cold limbs cold, men's semen cold slippery diarrhea, women's uterus cold infertility, etc..

Cistanche Shrimp Balls

Ingredients: 10 grams of Cistanches, 20 grams of shrimp, 2 eggs, 150 grams of flour, 500 grams of vegetable oil, baking powder and seasoning. Method. 1. Boil the cistanche in a little water for 20 minutes, remove the dregs and extract the juice. 2. Beat the eggs into a bowl and stir with the juice, flour, ginger juice, green onion, salt and baking powder to form an egg powder paste. 3. Add shrimp with yellow wine, salt and flavor powder and mix into the egg powder paste. 4. pot on the fire with vegetable oil, burn to 40% heat, with a small spoon to scoop shrimp batter under the pot fried until golden brown. Efficacy: nourish kidney yang, benefit essence and blood, for kidney yang deficiency, waist and knee weakness, cold pain, tendons and bones, impotence, etc.

Pork Liver with Cistanche

Ingredients: 1 set of pig liver, 15 grams of Cistanche. Method. 1. Wash the pig liver, soak the Cistanche in water, scrape off the wrinkled skin, wash and slice. 2. Add 2 bowls of water to the pig liver and put in the slices of Cistanche, boil with it to 1 bowl of water, season and then eat the liver and drink the soup. Function: Generating essence and replenishing blood, suitable for kidney deficiency, spermatorrhea, soreness and weakness of the waist and knees, tendons and bones, or qi deficiency and yellowing of the face, night blindness, diminished eyesight, etc.

Cistanche cassia tea

Ingredients: 10 grams each of Cistanches and Semen cassia, appropriate amount of honey. Directions: Stir fry the cassia seeds, grind them finely, add boiling water to brew, filter the liquid, add honey and drink as tea. Efficacy: moisten down and laxative. Suitable for habitual constipation, senile constipation, etc.