Spring is the season to eat Artemisia leaves. At this time, the leaves are fresh and juicy. You can pick the tender leaves and cook some nourishing dishes for your family. Artemisia leaves have the effects of nourishing the stomach, dispelling dampness, dispelling cold, reducing inflammation, killing bacteria, and anti-allergy. Especially for women, eating Artemisia leaves can treat irregular menstruation. Today, I will recommend some delicious and healthy Artemisia leaf dishes to you.
1. Artemisia Leaf Chicken Soup
Ingredients: 15g fresh Artemisia leaves, 1 old mother chicken.
Instructions:
1. Wash and cut the old mother chicken into pieces, put it in a clay pot, and add an appropriate amount of water;
2. Add ginger slices, boil over high heat, and then add Artemisia leaves. Cook until well done.
Effects:
1. Artemisia leaves: regulate qi and blood, dispel dampness and cold, stop bleeding, and promote fetal safety.
2. Mother chicken: improve immunity, strengthen the body, and nourish the kidney essence.
3. Artemisia leaf chicken soup: relieve symptoms of menstrual weakness, cold and abdominal pain, dysmenorrhea, excessive menstruation, and treat irregular menstruation, insomnia, and excessive dreaming. Artemisia leaves are warm in nature and are not suitable for people with damp-heat constitution, real heat, or yin deficiency and excessive fire.
2. Artemisia Leaf Jujube Boiled Egg
Ingredients: 10g Artemisia leaves (dried), 5 jujubes, 3 slices of ginger, 1 egg, and an appropriate amount of brown sugar.
Instructions:
1. Wash the Artemisia leaves, jujubes, and egg, and put them in a clay pot with an appropriate amount of water to boil;
2. After the egg is cooked, remove the shell, and then put it back into the pot to cook for another 5-10 minutes;
3. Add brown sugar and cook until dissolved. Remove the residue of medicinal materials, take out the juice and egg, and drink the soup and eat the egg.
Effects:
1. Artemisia leaves: warm the meridians, stop bleeding, dispel cold and relieve pain, and expel dampness and insects.
2. Jujube: strengthen the spleen and stomach, nourish qi and blood, and nourish the blood and calm the mind.
3. Ginger: tonify qi, expel wind, and dispel cold.
4. Egg: nourish the brain, protect the liver, and delay aging.
5. Artemisia leaf jujube boiled egg: has the effects of warming the meridians, dispelling cold, nourishing qi and blood, and promoting fetal safety. It is suitable for women with dysmenorrhea, irregular menstruation, excessive menstruation, or cold constitution. It is not suitable for people with real heat.
3. Artemisia Leaf Porridge
Ingredients: 30g Artemisia leaves, 100g glutinous rice, an appropriate amount of brown sugar.
Instructions:
1. Boil the Artemisia leaves to extract the juice;
2. Cook the glutinous rice and brown sugar in the medicinal juice to make porridge.
Effects:
1. Glutinous rice: improve immunity, nourish the stomach, promote blood circulation, and resolve stasis.
2. Brown sugar: strengthen the spleen, nourish the blood, and nourish the blood.
3. Artemisia leaf porridge: warm the meridians, stop bleeding, dispel cold and relieve pain, and warm the uterus. It is used to treat symptoms such as irregular menstruation and cold abdominal pain.
