Huang Jing is a type of nourishing traditional Chinese medicine (TCM) with the benefits of tonifying the spleen and moistening the lungs, among other effects. Many health-conscious families like to use Huang Jing to make chicken soup. So, what are the benefits of cooking chicken with Huang Jing?
What are the benefits of cooking chicken with Huang Jing?
Tonifying the spleen and invigorating qi
Huang Jing has a sweet taste and a neutral nature. It enters the spleen meridian and has the effects of tonifying qi and nourishing yin, as well as strengthening the spleen and stomach. Chicken meat also has the function of tonifying the middle and invigorating the spleen and stomach. Therefore, cooking chicken with Huang Jing can help with symptoms such as spleen and stomach qi deficiency, tiredness, weakness, insufficient stomach yin, and reduced appetite.
Tonifying the kidney and nourishing essence
Huang Jing enters the kidney meridian and has the effect of nourishing the kidney yin. It can be used to treat deficiency of kidney yin and essence. Chicken meat has a sweet taste and a slightly warm nature, which can tonify the kidney and fill the marrow. Cooking chicken with Huang Jing can be used as an adjuvant treatment for symptoms such as impotence, nocturnal emissions, premature ejaculation, sore and weak lower back and knees, deafness, tinnitus, and premature graying of hair caused by kidney deficiency.
Enhancing physical fitness
Huang Jing contains a large amount of starch, sugar, fat, protein, carotene, vitamins, and various other nutrients, which can supplement the body's nutrition. Chicken meat is rich in protein, highly digestible, and easily absorbed by the body. It has the effect of enhancing physical strength and strengthening the body. Therefore, cooking chicken with Huang Jing can help regulate the body's immune system and enhance physical fitness.
Nourishing yin and moistening the lungs
Huang Jing has the functions of nourishing yin, moistening the lungs, and stopping coughs. Drinking chicken soup cooked with Huang Jing can provide certain relief for symptoms such as lung deficiency with dry cough, coughing up blood, and coughing due to overexertion. It is suitable for consumption by patients with pulmonary tuberculosis.
How to cook chicken with Huang Jing
Ingredients: 1 chicken, 30g Huang Jing, 20g wolfberries, ginger, salt, cooking wine (appropriate amount).
Instructions:
1. Rinse Huang Jing and wolfberries, then soak them in warm water for about 20 minutes.
2. Clean and chop the chicken into pieces, then slice the ginger and set aside.
3. Put the chicken, wolfberries, Huang Jing, and ginger into a pot.
4. Add cooking wine and an appropriate amount of water.
5. Bring to a boil over high heat, then simmer over low heat for about 3 hours.
6. When the chicken is tender, skim off the floating oil, add salt, and simmer for another 5 minutes. It is done.
Contraindications for drinking Huang Jing chicken soup
Excessive phlegm
For individuals with symptoms such as obesity, limb edema, excessive facial oil, a swollen tongue, and sticky mouth, Huang Jing chicken soup should be avoided. Because Huang Jing nourishes and is sticky in nature, consuming it may hinder the transformation and transportation functions of the spleen and stomach, exacerbating the symptoms of excessive phlegm.
Cold and diarrhea in the middle Jiao
If you have symptoms of deficiency-cold in the middle Jiao and diarrhea, it is also not suitable to consume Huang Jing chicken soup. Otherwise, the symptoms will not be relieved, but may worsen.
What goes well with Huang Jing in soup?
Huang Jing stewed with beef
Main ingredients: 500g beef, 30g Huang Jing, 30g dates, 1 hawthorn fruit.
Seasonings: 15g cooking wine, 15g scallion, 4g salt, 2g monosodium glutamate, 15g ginger slices, 10g sesame oil.
Instructions:
1. Wash the beef and cut it into small pieces about 2cm in size.
2. Wash Huang Jing, dates, and hawthorn fruit.
3. Boil water in a pot, add the beef pieces to blanch and remove any impurities.
4. Put Huang Jing in a clay pot, add scallion, ginger, cooking wine, and bring to a boil over high heat.
5. Add the beef and hawthorn fruit, and simmer over low heat until the beef is 50% tender.
6. Add the dates and salt, and continue to simmer until fully cooked.
7. Finally, add monosodium glutamate and sesame oil. It is ready to serve.
Huang Jing and lean meat soup
Ingredients: 30g Huang Jing, 20g Codonopsis pilosula, 20g Chinese yam, 500g lean pork, salt, ginger (appropriate amount).
Instructions:
1. Wash Huang Jing and Codonopsis pilosula, Chinese yam, and set aside.
2. Cut the lean pork into large pieces and blanch them in boiling water.
3. Bring water to a boil and pour the blanched pork into a stewing pot.
4. Then add all the ingredients and simmer over water for about two hours.
5. Finally, add salt to taste and it is ready to be consumed.
The best way to consume Huang Jing
There are many ways to consume Huang Jing. In addition to cooking it in soup, it can also be used to make alcohol and infused water.
Huang Jing alcohol
Ingredients: 80g Huang Jing, 2000ml white wine.
Instructions:
1. Wash Huang Jing, slice it, and let the surface dry.
2. Put the dried Huang Jing in a clean gauze bag and seal the opening.
3. Place the gauze bag in a wine jar and pour in the white wine.
4. Seal the jar, shake it well, and soak for about a month.
5. Drink 15-20ml each time, twice a day.
Huang Jing infused water
1. Take 9g Huang Jing and 10g wolfberries and put them in a teapot.
2. Add an appropriate amount of water.
3. Bring to a boil over high heat, then simmer for about 30 minutes.
4. Strain the residue and drink the liquid.
5. Drink it twice a day.
