Yimucao, I believe many female friends are familiar with it. This traditional Chinese medicine is a treasure for female friends. Yimucao in traditional Chinese medicine has the effects of nourishing blood, calming the mind, eliminating edema, nourishing the skin, and anti-aging. It is a good medicine for promoting blood circulation, regulating menstruation, diuresis, and reducing swelling. Yimucao is very beneficial for women. It not only treats female diseases, but also has good effects in nourishing the skin and blood. Today, I recommend three recipes of Yimucao that can nourish the blood, improve the complexion, and anti-aging. Let's take a look.
Blood-Nourishing, Skin-Nourishing, and Anti-Aging Recipes
1. Yimucao Red Date Lean Meat Soup
Ingredients: 20g yimucao, 8g angelica, 20g red dates, 200g lean meat, salt, and monosodium glutamate (to taste).
Instructions:
1. Wash the yimucao and angelica. Wash the red dates and remove the pits. Wash the lean meat and cut into large pieces.
2. Put the lean meat, angelica, and red dates into a pot, add a suitable amount of water, and bring to a boil over high heat.
3. Reduce the heat and simmer for 1 hour. Then add the yimucao and simmer for another 5 minutes. Season with salt and monosodium glutamate.
Effects:
1. Yimucao: It has the effects of promoting blood circulation, regulating menstruation, relieving pain, diuresis, and reducing swelling. It is an essential medicine for treating gynecological diseases.
2. Red dates: It has the effects of nourishing blood and liver, nourishing blood and calming the mind, invigorating the spleen and stomach, nourishing the middle, and nourishing yin and yang.
3. Lean meat: It nourishes blood, prevents iron-deficiency anemia, and replenishes B vitamins to nourish and replenish deficiency.
4. Yimucao red date lean meat soup: It has the effects of promoting blood circulation, nourishing blood, improving complexion, anti-aging, invigorating qi, replenishing deficiency, invigorating the spleen and stomach, and nourishing and calming the mind.
2. Yimucao Ginger Tea
Ingredients: 15g yimucao, 10g ginger slices.
Instructions:
1. Take a certain proportion of yimucao and ginger slices and put them into a pot. Add a suitable amount of water.
2. Bring to a boil over high heat, then simmer over low heat for about 20 minutes. Filter the soup and drink it warm.
Effects:
1. Yimucao: Yimucao has the effects of nourishing blood, promoting blood circulation, and regulating menstruation. It can be used to treat irregular menstruation, amenorrhea, and dysmenorrhea.
2. Ginger: It has a mild spicy taste and can dispel wind, dispel cold, induce sweating, and is very useful in treating colds.
3. Yimucao ginger tea: This tea can relieve pain, dispel cold, warm the body, nourish blood, improve complexion, and anti-aging. It can also relieve nausea and vomiting caused by dysmenorrhea.
3. Yimucao Rehmannia Porridge
Ingredients: 10g yimucao, 20g rehmannia, 20g lotus root, ginger, honey (to taste), 100g rice.
Instructions:
1. Juice the yimucao, rehmannia, lotus root, and ginger.
2. Cook the rice in a clay pot. When the rice is cooked, add the above herbal juice and honey, and cook into a thin porridge.
Effects:
1. Rehmannia: It stops bleeding, cools the blood, and clears heat to generate body fluids.
2. Lotus root: It detoxifies, nourishes the skin, and removes spots.
3. Ginger: It invigorates qi, dispels wind, and expels cold.
4. Honey: It treats constipation, removes spots, nourishes the skin, and anti-aging.
5. Yimucao rehmannia porridge: It nourishes blood, improves complexion, anti-aging, nourishes yin, nourishes blood, regulates menstruation, resolves stasis, relieves thirst, and relieves restlessness. It is suitable for women with irregular menstruation, functional uterine bleeding, postpartum dizziness, incomplete lochia, and abdominal pain due to blood stasis.