Uncaria, known as "medicinal chicken," is an important component of Uncaria and White Phoenix Pills. So what are the benefits of Uncaria? What are the differences between Uncaria and ordinary chickens?
Appearance Differences
Uncaria: Uncaria is famous for its short legs and short necks. Perhaps to make up for its height, it grows feather coronets that other chickens do not have, making it look like a chicken but not a chicken, like a phoenix but not a phoenix, with strong ornamental value.
Ordinary chicken: Compared with Uncaria, ordinary chickens have long legs and necks, no feather coronets, well-developed muscles, suitable for consumption and cockfighting, and have no ornamental value.
Difference in Meat Color
Uncaria: The meat of Uncaria is classified according to different types, mainly white feather black bone, black feather black bone, black bone black meat, white meat black bone, and other large varieties of hybrid Uncaria have different meat colors.
Ordinary chicken: The meat color of ordinary chicken is not so complicated, only yellow and white, and the bones are mostly white, without the phenomenon of black bones.
Difference in Nutritional Composition of Meat
Uncaria: The main components of Uncaria are protein, fat, vitamins, amino acids, trace elements, and of course, a large amount of melanin.
Ordinary chicken: Ordinary chicken contains protein, fat, vitamins, amino acids, and trace elements.
Note: The composition of Uncaria and ordinary chicken is almost the same, but the amount of Uncaria is higher than that of ordinary chicken, especially amino acids and melanin. In addition, the protein content of Uncaria is higher than that of ordinary chicken, while the fat content is only one-third of that of ordinary chicken, making it an ideal high-protein low-fat food.
Difference in Nutritional Value
Uncaria: Uncaria is known as the "precious treasure with a dark heart." Uncaria is a good product for replenishing deficiencies and nourishing the body. Eating Uncaria can improve physiological functions, delay aging, and strengthen bones and muscles. It has significant effects on preventing and treating osteoporosis, rickets, iron deficiency anemia in women, and other diseases. "Compendium of Materia Medica" believes that Uncaria has the functions of replenishing deficiencies and labor weakness, regulating diabetes, enhancing fertility, treating women's dysfunction, and other diseases caused by deficiencies. Uncaria mainly replenishes yin deficiency.
Ordinary chicken: Ordinary chicken is the chicken meat we commonly eat, and its nutritional value includes supplementing protein, fat, vitamins, minerals, etc., also a good tonic. Ordinary chicken mainly replenishes qi deficiency.
Precautions for Eating Uncaria
1. Uncaria has a good effect on gynecological diseases, but people with poor appetite and thick tongue coating should not eat too much Uncaria.
2. The tonic effect of Uncaria is related to its growth environment. At present, Thai Uncaria in China has the most tonic effect, and its mineral content is much higher than that of Uncaria in other places.
3. Uncaria is just a type of chicken. Although there are many differences in efficacy, the overall tonic effect is not significantly different. There is no need to blindly eat Uncaria for toning up.
