How to use black chicken to treat weakness and nourish the body
Black chicken (also known as silkie chicken, lead-legged chicken, five-clawed chicken) is rare and has high nutritional value. Oriental medicine often uses black chicken as a ingredient in many medicines with names such as black chicken, black chicken bone.
Characteristics of black chicken
Black chicken is a breed of chicken with a short body, small beak, short neck, comb, green ears, slightly purple.
Black chickens do not have black feathers as many people think, but their entire body is covered in white feathers. Apart from the wings, their entire body is covered in velvety feathers. On their heads, there is a small tuft of feathers that protrudes, and under their mouths and on both sides of their faces, there are many small, short feathers.
The Black Chicken got its name because its skin, meat, bones, and beak are all black. Although this type of chicken has short wings, the feathers on its wings are separated, so it can fly quite well.
Black chickens also have a very special feature: their legs have feathers and 5 claws, and the feathers on their feet are very thick and abundant.
According to Oriental medicine, black chicken has a sweet, salty taste, neutral properties, and enters the Liver and Kidney meridians. It has the effects of nourishing yin and reducing heat, replenishing the middle and stopping thirst, and nourishing the kidney and nourishing yin. Black chicken is often used to treat people with weakness, emaciation, heat in the bones, diabetes, spleen deficiency, and frequent loose stools; it is good for pregnant women, and it treats women with uterine bleeding and leucorrhea.
Medicines from black chicken
- Completed:Treats symptoms of weakness, heat in the body, muscle atrophy, tired and weak limbs, hot palms, soles and chest, dry throat, red cheeks, sobbing, hot flashes, night sweats, poor appetite, coughing up blood.
+ Ingredients:Ginseng, astragalus, bupleurum, codonopsis pilosula, coptis, phellodendron, angelica, poria, rehmannia glutinosa, rehmannia glutinosa, white peony, schisandra, anemarrhena, fritillary, ligusticum wallichii, atractylodes macrocephala, each 20g.
+ How to prepare:Grind the above medicinal herbs, use a black male chicken weighing about 1kg or more, should use a young, healthy, fat chicken, remove feathers, blood, wash clean, put the medicinal herbs in the belly, sew it up with thread. Take a little good vinegar into the pot, put the previously prepared chicken in, pour in wine to cover the back about 3cm, put the intestines next to it and boil until very soft, remove, dry both the chicken and the medicine, grind finely, use the broth and paste to make pills as big as corn kernels.
+ How to use:Take 100 pills each time, on an empty stomach, with rice water or cooled boiled water.
- Completed:Treatment of dysentery, unable to eat or drink, due to using too many astringent drugs that damage the stomach, as soon as the mouth hears food, immediately closes the mouth, cold hands and feet.
+ How to prepare:Take 1 black chicken, remove feathers and giblets, use star anise, galangal, red beans, tangerine peel, white ginger, pepper, salt and stew until tender.
+ How to use:Take out the chicken and let the patient smell it. If they want to eat it, let them drink the broth as an appetizer. This remedy can also cure chronic dysentery.
- A prescription in the Compendium of Materia Medica:Treatment of spleen deficiency and loose stools.
+ How to prepare:1 black hen, wash clean. Use 80g nutmeg, 2 cardamom pods, burn until dry, put in chicken belly, tie up and cook.
+ How to use:Eat on an empty stomach.
- Another prescription in the book Compendium of Materia Medica:Treats women with mixed white and red vaginal discharge and men with spermatorrhea, cloudy urine, and lower body weakness.
+ How to prepare:Ginkgo biloba, lotus seed, and red rice, each 20g, and 4g pepper, finely ground. Clean a black chicken as usual, put the herbs in the chicken's stomach, and cook.
+ How to use:Eat on an empty stomach.
