【Ingredients】
1 chicken, 10 grams of ginseng, 30 grams of raw rehmannia, 30 grams of cooked rehmannia, 3 grams of salt, 1 gram of chicken essence.
【Preparation】
After slaughtering the chicken, remove the feathers, intestines, chicken head, and chicken tail. Wash the ginseng, raw rehmannia, and cooked rehmannia and place them inside the chicken. Add salt and an appropriate amount of water. Place in a clay pot and simmer over low heat until cooked. Add chicken shreds before serving.
【Benefits】
Tonifies the spleen and stomach, generates body fluids, stops thirst, nourishes the blood, and cools the blood. It is used as an adjuvant treatment for conditions such as insomnia with excessive dreaming, weak spleen and stomach, acute and chronic gastritis, pulmonary tuberculosis, disorders of lipid metabolism, anemia, gastric ulcers, gastrointestinal dysfunction, and sexual dysfunction.
【Precautions】
(1) Avoid taking if there is excess heat and the body's qi is not deficient.
(2) Do not consume tea or radishes when consuming ginseng to avoid affecting the efficacy.
(3) Do not consume chicken and rabbit meat together as it may cause diarrhea.
(4) Do not consume chicken with carp fish or garlic as their effects are contradictory.
(5) Avoid consuming while taking levodopa as it is not recommended to consume high-protein foods.
(6) Avoid consuming while taking iron supplements as chicken meat contains a high level of phosphorus, and phosphoric acid and iron supplements can combine to form insoluble substances that affect the absorption of iron.
(7) Avoid consuming the air sacs on the head and tail of older chickens, as they are prone to bacterial infection and can even lead to cancer.
(8) Do not consume ginseng with turtle meat, as it can cause adverse reactions.
(9) Do not consume ginseng with the drugs Cailu and Wulingzhi, as they have a contraindication.
