Clinical manifestations of weak-tempered iron-deficiency anemia:
Pale or yellowish complexion, fatigue, reduced appetite, bloating or fullness in the epigastric region, accompanied by gum bleeding, heavy menstrual flow, pale tongue, thin white coating, weak pulse.
【Chicken Blood Vine Cooked with Eggs】
Ingredients: 60g chicken blood vine, 2 eggs.
Method: Wash the chicken blood vine and put it in the pot with the eggs. Add 300ml of water. After the eggs are cooked, remove the shells and fry for another 10 minutes.
Efficacy: Tonify the spleen, invigorate qi, and nourish blood.
Usage: Eat the eggs and drink the soup regularly.
【Longan Quail Eggs】
Ingredients: 12g longan flesh, 4 quail eggs, 15g brown sugar.
Method: Beat the quail eggs and mix them with the longan flesh and brown sugar. Place the mixture in a bowl and steam with 60-100ml of water on top of rice until cooked.
Efficacy: Tonify and nourish blood.
Usage: Take once daily in the morning, can be eaten regularly.
【Astragalus Chicken Soup】
Ingredients: 1 hen (1000-1500g), 15g astragalus, 100g glutinous rice.
Method: Clean the hen, simmer it to make a thick chicken soup, and simmer the astragalus separately. Cook the glutinous rice with the chicken soup and herbal juice each time to make porridge.
Efficacy: Tonify qi and blood, replenish essence.
Usage: Consume while hot in the morning and evening.
【Beef Tendon Porridge】
Ingredients: 50g beef tendon, 50g peanuts, 50-100g glutinous rice.
Method: Wash the beef tendon, cut it into small pieces, and cook it with peanuts and glutinous rice in an appropriate amount of water until the tendon and peanuts are tender and the soup thickens.
Efficacy: Tonify qi and nourish blood.
Usage: Eat the porridge with the tendon and peanuts. Take once in the morning and evening.
【Angelica and Ginseng Stewed Chicken】
Ingredients: 15g angelica, 15g ginseng, 1 chicken (about 1500g).
Method: Put the angelica and ginseng in the chicken's abdomen, place it in a clay pot, add various condiments and water, bring to a boil over high heat, and then simmer until the chicken is tender.
Efficacy: Tonify the spleen, invigorate qi, nourish and generate blood.
Usage: Eat the meat and drink the soup, consume with meals.
【Tonifying the Middle Cake】
Ingredients: 100g flour, 20g white atractylodes, 20g poria, 10g ginseng, 5g tangerine peel, 20g longan flesh, 20g Chinese yam.
Method: Grind all the ingredients except for the flour into fine powder. Mix them with the flour and add an appropriate amount of sugar and water to make a dough. Steam the dough in a steamer until it becomes a cake. Alternatively, steam the cake first and then bake it in the oven on low heat until dry.
Efficacy: Tonify the middle, invigorate qi, and nourish blood.
Usage: Can be eaten as a snack.
