Invigorate the Spleen, Brighten the Eyes and Never Forget Atractylodes

Invigorate the Spleen, Brighten the Eyes and Never Forget Atractylodes

Atractylodes atractylodis is the rhizome of Atractylodes atractylodis, a perennial herb of the Compositae family. It is best to be fat, firm, hairless, and fragrant. It has the effects of invigorating the spleen and removing dampness, tonifying deficiency and improving eyesight. It has a good effect on dampness and spleen, fatigue and sleepiness, abdominal distension, loss of appetite, vomiting and diarrhea, eye diseases, internal obstruction, external obstruction, blue blindness, night blindness, etc.

Modern Chinese medicine believes that the health care function of Cangzhu mainly lies in warming the spleen and stomach, increasing appetite, keeping fit and improving eyesight, and prolonging life. Pharmacological studies have found that atractylodes can regulate the function of islet cells, stabilize the internal environment, improve immune function, enhance the body's resistance, and achieve the effects of excitement, strength, stimulation, and improvement of human body functions.

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Cangzhu health prescription

Qushu Wan in "Hejiju Prescription"

Stir-fry equal portions of Shenqu and Cangzhu, grind them into fine powder, and make the batter into balls, which are as big as phoenix seeds. Take 30 pills per serving, 3 times a day, take rice soup after meals. Can invigorate the spleen, warm the stomach, and eliminate food. It is used for the injury caused by diet, and the fullness of the chest and diaphragm.

Stomach Nourishing Pills in "Health Treasure Book"

150 grams of Cangzhu, 60 grams each of fried Divine Comedy, Poria, Magnolia officinalis, Atractylodes macrocephala, fried malt, tangerine peel, 30 grams each of ginseng and roasted licorice. 50 pills per serving, 3 times a day, warm ginger soup or rice porridge before meals. It is used for weak spleen and stomach, fullness of trusted subordinates, pale complexion, muscle wasting, laziness and sleepiness, and lack of appetite.

"Cao Huan Dan" in "Rui Zhu Tang Experience Prescription"

12 grams of atractylodes rhizome, 60 grams each of fenugreek, broken paper, medlar, and raspberry, 30 grams each of yam, poria cocos, and achyranthes bidentata. 50 pills per serving, 3 times a day, served with rice wine or salt water. Taking it for a long time can strengthen the spleen and stomach, improve diet, benefit the essence, invigorate the kidney meridian, strengthen the vital yang, lighten the waist and feet, soothe the five internal organs, and open the seven orifices, making the eyes and ears smart.

Cangzhu Yishou Pill in "Easy and Simple Prescriptions for Health"

500 grams of Cangzhu, 250 grams each of Polygonum multiflorum, Rehmannia glutinosa, and Digupi, made into fine powder, refined with honey to make pills, as big as soybeans. 60 pills per serving, 2 times a day, with rice wine. Long-term use can blacken hair, help face, improve eyesight, and prolong life.

Atractylodes diet

1. Atractylodes sesame porridge

15 grams of herb, 30 grams each of black sesame and walnut kernels, and 60 grams of rice. Cangzhu is wrapped in gauze, black sesame and walnut kernels are mashed. Put the same amount of water in the casserole and cook the porridge with a slow fire. When the rotten rice porridge is thick, take out the medicine bag and eat the porridge on an empty stomach, once a day. It is suitable for patients with night blindness, dim vision and dry eyes.

2. Stewed Pork Belly and Herbs

1 pork belly, 30 grams each of herb and tangerine peel. Wash the pork belly inside and out, wrap the herb and tangerine peel with gauze and put them in the pork belly, tie it tightly with twine, add some water and simmer over low heat. Remove the medicine bag after it is cooked, drink soup while it is hot, and finish eating in 2 days. Regular consumption can invigorate the spleen and harmonize the stomach, eliminate food stagnation, and is used for chronic gastritis, ulcer disease, gastroptosis and abdominal distension and pain, belching, fullness, nausea, loss of appetite, etc.

Text/Deputy Chief Physician Liang Zhaosong

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