[Medicinal Diet Name]
Mother Chicken with Ginseng
[Ingredients]
About 1250g of tender mother chicken, 3g of ginseng, 1500g of milk soup, 75g of lard, appropriate amount of salt, cooking wine, and monosodium glutamate, 20g of scallion, and 10g of ginger.
[Instructions]
1. Slaughter and clean the chicken, remove the chicken feet, blanch it in boiling water, and remove it to drain.
2. Wash the ginseng and cut it into very thin slices.
3. Heat up a wok, add lard and heat it up, stir-fry the scallion and ginger until fragrant, add cooking wine, milk soup, salt, and monosodium glutamate. Once the soup boils, stir a few times, remove the scallion and ginger and put them into a casserole, then add the chicken and ginseng into the pot. Stew over low heat until the meat is tender, skim off the floating oil, and it is ready to serve.
[Features]
The chicken meat is tender and fragrant, and the soup is rich and flavorful.
[Identification of Ginseng]
(1) The cross-section of the product shows a series of cells in the cork layer. The cork layer is narrow. The outer side of the phloem has cracks, and the inner side has closely arranged thin-walled cells with resin passages scattered, containing yellow secretions. The formation layer is ring-shaped. The xylem rays are wide, with individual or several adjacent ducts arranged intermittently in a radiating pattern, and there are occasional non-lignified fibers beside the ducts. The thin-walled cells contain clusters of calcium oxalate crystals.
The powder is pale yellowish-white, with visible fragments of resin passages and yellowish block-shaped secretions. The calcium oxalate crystals have a diameter of 20-68μm and sharp edges. The surface of the cork cells appears square or polygonal, with fine, wavy walls. The reticulate and scalariform vessels have a diameter of 10-56μm. There are many starch grains, which are single grains that are spherical, semi-circular, or irregularly polygonal, with a diameter of 4-20μm, and have a dot-like or fissure-like hilum; compound grains consist of 2-6 sub-grains.
(2) Take 1g of the powder, add 40ml of chloroform, heat reflux for 1 hour, discard the chloroform liquid, dry the residue, stir with 0.5ml of water to make it moist, add 10ml of saturated n-butanol, treat with ultrasound for 30 minutes, extract the supernatant and add 3 times the volume of ammonia test solution, shake well, let it settle into layers, take the upper layer, evaporate it to dryness, dissolve the residue with 1ml of methanol, and use it as the test solution.
Take 1g of reference ginseng, and prepare the reference ginseng solution using the same method. Then take ginsenoside Rb1, reference substance, ginsenoside Re reference substance, ginsenoside Rf reference substance, and ginsenoside Rg1 reference substance, and make a mixed solution with each containing 2mg per 1ml, as the reference solution. Perform thin-layer chromatography (Appendix VI B) test, take 1-2μl of the above three solutions separately, spot them on the same silica gel G plate, and use the lower solution below 100C of chloroform-ethyl acetate-methanol-water (15:40:22:10) as the developing agent. Develop, remove, air dry, spray with 10% sulfuric acid ethanol solution, heat at 1050C until the spots show clear color, and compare the spots or fluorescence spots in the test solution chromatogram with the corresponding positions in the reference ginseng and reference solution chromatograms, respectively, showing the same color.
