The nature, flavor and meridians of Dendrobium

Everyone is very familiar with Dendrobium. Dendrobium has the effect of nourishing yin, and it is a health care product with high edible value and medicinal value. Some people want to make soup with Dendrobium, some people like to eat it raw directly, and some people like to soak it in water. In fact, different ways of eating Dendrobium generally have different effects on the human body. Although Dendrobium has high nutritional value, most people don’t know much about its nature, taste and meridians.

Dendrobium nature and flavor meridians

The nature and flavor of Dendrobium: sweet, slightly cold. It enters the stomach and kidney meridians.

Dendrobium's effects: nourishes the stomach and produces body fluid, nourishes yin and eliminates heat.

Dendrobium Indications: Used for thirst due to loss of body fluid, constipation due to loss of appetite, persistent heat and blurred vision.

Effects and functions of Dendrobium

1. Eat raw. Efficacy: Strengthens yin and essence, stimulates appetite and strengthens the spleen.

2. Make soup. Efficacy: nourishing yin and clearing away heat.

3. Make tea. Efficacy: stimulate appetite, strengthen spleen, reduce internal heat and regulate qi, and has significant effect on chronic pharyngitis.

4. Boil ointment. Efficacy: It has significant therapeutic effects on symptoms such as fatigue due to strain, pain in limbs, fatigue, and night sweats.

5. Soak in medicinal wine, effects: nourishing the kidney and yin, producing essence and dispelling wind.

6. Add delicious food to meals, its effects: nourishing yin and producing body fluid, resisting deficiency heat, slight sweating, muscle and bone aches and other common physical deficiency symptoms.

Dendrobium plays a great role in our daily life. It can strengthen the body, stimulate appetite and invigorate the spleen. It has a good effect of reducing fire. If you have this feeling, you might as well try the Dendrobium dietary therapy. Not only can you eat delicious food, but it can also solve the body's function of producing fluids and nourishing the stomach and aiding digestion.

How to eat Dendrobium

1. Eat raw

Take some fresh Dendrobium, wash it thoroughly and chew it slowly. It will taste sweet and slightly sticky at first, and then swallow the remaining residue when it becomes refreshing.

2. Make soup

(1) Take fresh Dendrobium, wash it and remove some old roots.

(2) Chop or smash the washed dendrobium, then add water to the pot (add an appropriate amount of water according to your own soup consumption).

(3) Simmer for 30 minutes over low heat.

(4) Then add 1-2 grams of American ginseng and cook for another 30 minutes.

(5) Note: The soup can be boiled 2-3 times and eaten with the residue. Zhang Xichun, a famous modern doctor, said: "Dendrobium candidum is the most resistant to frying, so it should be split and fried first to get the true flavor."

3. Make tea

(1) Take the Dendrobium purchased from the pharmacy, wash it and remove impurities.

(2) Cut into thin slices or break into granules.

(3) After boiling water above 90 degrees.

(4) It can be consumed after 4-5 minutes.

(5) It can be brewed repeatedly and eaten with the residue.