Nutritious dishes from pig's trotters

According to traditional medicine, pig's trotters have a sweet, salty taste, neutral properties, and are a medicinal herb that has the effect of nourishing blood, relieving sputum, and healing scars. Often used in cases of blood deficiency, weakness, low milk supply in postpartum women, sedatives, etc. Here are some nutritious medicinal dishes made from pig's trotters for readers to refer to and apply.

In case of postpartum lack of milk:

Recipe 1: 2 pig trotters, 18g astragalus, 10g angelica, 8g cylindrica, 6g ligusticum. Boil astragalus, angelica, cylindrica and ligusticum to get the water, remove the residue, then add the pig trotters and simmer until soft, add enough spices, eat hot. Suitable for women after giving birth who have low milk supply, thin milk, anemia, dry skin, loss of appetite, and loose stools.

Braised pig's feet with artichoke flowers has the effect of cooling, detoxifying, diuretic, laxative,...

Recipe 2: 2 pig trotters, 100g young lotus root, enough spices. Clean the pig trotters, chop them into pieces and stew them with thinly sliced ​​lotus root until very soft, add more spices, divide into several servings a day. Suitable for women after giving birth who have difficulty lactation, have full or painful breasts, full chest and ribs, do not want to eat, are mentally stressed, uncomfortable, etc.

Blood tonic, sedative: 2 pig's feet, 1 pig's heart, 30g fresh earthworm. Clean the pig's feet, cut into pieces, blanch in boiling water; wash the pig's heart, cut into pieces. Stew all until tender over low heat, add enough spices, eat hot. Uses: Nourishes the blood, calms the nerves, good for patients with epilepsy.

Strengthen the spleen, nourish blood, stimulate digestion: 1 pig's trotter, 150g shiitake mushrooms, enough spices. Clean the pig's trotters, chop them into pieces and stew until tender. Then add the mushrooms, cook until done, add more spices and eat hot. This dish has the effect of nourishing yin and yang, strengthening the spleen and stomach, nourishing blood, stimulating appetite, suitable for people with physical weakness, and postpartum women.

Improve blood circulation, nourish skin: 2 pig trotters, 100g peanuts, 10 jujubes. Clean the pig trotters, cut into pieces and stew with peanuts and jujubes, divide into several meals a day. Uses: Nourish blood, promote blood circulation, prevent and treat skin malnutrition, prevent wrinkles on the face.

Cooling, detoxifying, diuretic: 2 pig trotters, 2 artichoke flowers. Clean the pig trotters, cut into pieces. Artichoke flowers (choose the young ones, not yet fully bloomed), wash, remove all the pistils, split into 4. Put the pig trotters in a pot to simmer, then add the artichoke flowers and simmer until the flowers are cooked, season, eat hot. Uses: Cooling, good for the liver and gallbladder, laxative, diuretic, stimulates digestion,...

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