How to use black chicken to treat weakness and nourish the body
Black chicken (also known as black 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 type 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 has white feathers. Apart from the wings, their entire body has velvety feathers, a small tuft of feathers growing out on their heads, and many short, small feathers from their mouths to the sides of their faces.
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, hot body, thin muscles, 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, 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 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 herbs in the stomach, sew it up with thread. Take a little good vinegar and put it in the pot, put the chicken that was prepared earlier 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 herbs, 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:Treats dysentery, unable to eat or drink, due to using too many astringent drugs that damage the stomach, as soon as the mouth hears food, the mouth closes tightly, hands and feet are cold.
+ 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 very tender.
+ How to use:Take out the chicken and let the patient smell it, let him smell the aroma, if he wants to eat it, let him 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, burn to ashes, put in chicken belly, tie 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, red rice, each 20g, pepper 4g, finely ground. Clean a black chicken as usual, put the herbs in the chicken's stomach, cook until done.
+ How to use:Eat on an empty stomach.
