Description
- Atractylodes can also be used for daily health care, and the commonly used methods of consumption are as follows:
- 1. Porridge (Atractylodes lily porridge): prepare 15g of Atractylodes, 20g of lily, and 60g of rice. Put the prepared ingredients into a pot, add water, bring to a boil over high heat, then turn to low heat and simmer for 50 minutes.
- 2. Soup (Atractylodes Rhizoma Stewed Grass Carp): Prepare Atractylodes Rhizoma 15g, grass carp and Shixing seasoning. Grind the Atractylodes into powder, clean the grass carp, put the Atractylodes powder and grass carp into the pot, add cooking wine, ginger slices, shallots, pour in an appropriate amount of water and boil over high heat, then turn to low heat and simmer for 25 minutes, and finally add an appropriate amount of condiments to taste That's it.
- When the decoction is taken orally, the usual dosage is 3~6g.
Atractylodes macrocephala (scientific name: Atractylodes macrocephala Koidz.): Atractylodes macrocephala perennial herb, up to 60 cm high, nodular rhizomes. Stems erect, all smooth and glabrous. The leaves are alternate, the leaves are pinnately divided, the lateral lobes are oblanceolate, elliptic or oblong, the top lobes are larger than the lateral lobes, all the leaves are thin, papery, green on both sides, glabrous, and the head inflorescence is a single stem. Branch tips, bracts green, pinnately split. Involucral broad campanulate, apex purple. Achenes are conical, bloom and bear fruit in August-October.