Recipe recommendation of traditional Chinese medicine conditioning before pregnancy

Understand physique and select appropriate Chinese medicine

The common types of constitution include the type of asthenia of qi, the type of fear of cold due to yang deficiency, the type of hypoxia due to blood deficiency, the type of dry-heat due to yin deficiency, the type of resistance between damp and heat, the type of excessive cold and damp phlegm, the type of stagnation of liver qi and the type of stagnation of qi and blood stasis. Generally speaking, the deficiency of the basic elements of the body (yin, yang, qi, blood) and the weak resistance are the deficiency syndrome. For example, the first four types are the deficiency syndrome of traditional Chinese medicine, which can be used together with Tonic Diet to enhance the efficacy at ordinary times. The last five types are the evidence of strong disease qi and not weak resistance, such as cold and fever, acute gastroenteritis, acute hepatitis, hypertension, etc. At this time, the treatment of doctors is the main method, and Tonic Diet should not be taken by oneself.

The following is a brief introduction of common deficiency syndrome and applicable Chinese medicine, which can be used as appropriate:

Asthenic type of qi deficiency

Listless, tired and weak, prone to sweating, lazy talk and movement, dizziness and drowsiness; Palpitations, chest tightness, movement, easy to asthma; Prolonged cough, easy to catch cold, shortness of breath, stuffy nose, runny nose, wheezing, low voice; Loss of appetite, belching and abdominal distension, nausea and vomiting, stomach acid and bowel ringing, muscle wasting, short stature, soft stool or diarrhea, and poor defecation; Visceral ptosis (gastroptosis, prolapse of anus or prolapse of uterus); Insufficient hematopoietic function; Muscle, muscle and bone soreness, frequent urination, excessive amount of clear urine, nocturnal urination, hair loss; Men's premature ejaculation, women's menstrual disorders, leucorrhea and clear thin, easy to miscarry, difficult to conceive and other diseases; This type can choose traditional Chinese medicine or food such as codonopsis pilosula, poria cocos, yam, astragalus, red dates, schisandra, ganoderma lucidum, acanthopanax senticosus, beef, fish, etc.

Suggested recipe of Xingyuncao:

Pig kidney and yam soup

Ingredients: 2 pig kidneys, 100g yam, 50g wolfberry fruit, 50g ginseng, 50g coix seed, a little salt, ginger and scallion.

Preparation method: wash the pig kidney, cut it, remove the fascia, soak it in cold water for 2 hours, change the water every half an hour, finally blanch it with hot water to remove the smell of smell, cut it into small pieces, and set it aside; Chinese yam, peeled, washed, diced, put into a pot with other herbs, add pork kidney and water, and add wine, salt, ginger, scallion, pepper, etc., boil with fire, then simmer with soft fire until crisp, and then serve.

Deficiency of yang and fear of cold

In addition to the symptoms of qi deficiency, there are also chills, pale face and cold limbs; Dull complexion, precordial pain, chest tightness and chest pain; Stomach pain, likes to press warm, often diarrhea; Muscles, muscles and bones are sour and cold, and a lot of hair loss; For male impotence, female amenorrhea or infertility, this type can be selected from ginseng, eucommia, cinnamon, epimedium, lamb, venison, chicken and other drugs or meat products.

Eucommia cashew

Ingredients: 12g eucommia, 2 pork loins

Making method: first remove the fascia from the pork waist, cut the cross pattern, and cut into small pieces, blanch it in water, and then wash it with salt; Wash the eucommia, fry the juice separately, and set aside. Heat the oil in the frying pan to 70% heat, put the pork loin in the pan, saute for 3 minutes, and take off the pan. Pour in eucommia juice (bamboo shoots and mushroom slices can be added), add a little salt, monosodium glutamate and cooking wine, wait for boiling for 10 minutes, then pour in cashews, boil for 5 minutes, thicken with wet starch, and serve.

Hypoxia due to blood deficiency

Pale or pale face, pale lips, dizziness; Heart palpitation, forgetfulness, insomnia and dreaminess, dry eyes, blurred vision, numbness of limbs, easy cramping, broken nails, low menstrual volume or amenorrhea, etc. This type can be selected from drugs or meat products such as Radix Rehmanniae, Angelica sinensis, mulberry, wolfberry, polygonum multiflorum, longan, pig liver, etc.

Angelica, ginger and mutton soup

Ingredients: 20g angelica, 10g ginger, 500g mutton.

Preparation method: wash the mutton, cut it into 4 cm square pieces, and blanch it with boiling water to remove the smell. 500 ml of clear water, add angelica, ginger, decoct about 200 ml of medicinal juice, remove the residue, and set aside. Put mutton into the pot, add water, simmer and cook, the meat is cooked, add medicine juice, mix well, and add salt, scallion, monosodium glutamate and other condiments, boil slightly, and then serve.

Yin deficiency and dry-heat type

Flush cheeks, dry mouth and throat, hot hands and feet, sweating during sleep, hot body, dry stool, little urine volume, palpitations and forgetfulness, dry cough and phlegm are few and thick; Hunger but not want to eat, retching, stomach flatulence; Flushing, itchy eyes, congested eyes, dry nose, itchy nose, sneezing, itchy ears and earache; Acute dryness and irritability, poor sleep and dreaminess, vision loss, dry eyes, dry skin, acne, sore muscles and bones, dizziness and tinnitus, hair loss and baldness, male spermatorrhea, female menstrual disorders, low volume or amenorrhea, and other diseases. This type can be selected from powder ginseng, dendrobium, polygonatum, ophiopogon japonicus, lily, polygonatum, duck meat, pork and other drugs or meat products.

Stewed Pork with Rhizoma Polygonatum

Ingredients: 30g yellow essence, 250g lean pork.

Preparation method: wash the pork, cut it into 4 cm square pieces, blanch it in hot water to remove the fishiness. Add pork and xanthine with appropriate amount of wine, salt, scallion, ginger, pepper, monosodium glutamate and other condiments, put them into a stew cup, stew them with water, and you can eat xanthine, pork and soup.

Xingyucao: The above are basic deficiency syndromes. However, the constitution of modern people rarely has a single syndrome type. It is common for everyone to have a comprehensive syndrome type, such as yang deficiency, deficiency of both qi and yin, deficiency of yin and blood, and deficiency of both yin and yang.

Therefore, before you know your constitution, the selection of medicinal materials should be based on the balance of yin and yang, that is, cold and cold medicine (food) should be selected in equal proportion to warm and hot medicine, for example, radix astragali and dendrobium, longan and lily should be eaten together, and should not be biased to warm or cool tonic.