A Collection of Red Date Medicinal Cuisine: The Beauty Wisdom from Lotus Seed Cake to Placenta Soup

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Ingredients: 100g lotus seeds, 50g flour, 30g jujubes, 30g poria cocos, jujubes, fennel seeds, and yam.

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Preparation and usage: Put lotus seeds, jujubes, poria cocos, yam, and fennel seeds into a pot with an appropriate amount of water, cook over heat until done, then mash them into a paste. Add flour and an appropriate amount of water, mix well, steam in a steamer until cooked, cut into pieces, and eat as desired.

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Function: Strengthens the spleen and stomach, suitable for those with poor complexion due to spleen and stomach qi deficiency, and can make the skin plump and moisturized.

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16. **Glutinous Rice and Red Date Porridge**

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Ingredients: 100g glutinous rice, 6 jujubes.

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Preparation and Usage: Wash the glutinous rice, first cook it with water until it is 70% cooked, then...

Add jujubes and simmer over low heat until cooked.

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Functions: Tonifies the middle energizer and replenishes qi, nourishes blood and calms the mind, and helps those with weak constitutions recover.

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> 17. **Red Date Paste Peach Shortbread**

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Ingredients: 250g jujube paste, 50g walnuts, 50g yam, 500g flour

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Preparation and usage: Crush the walnuts, mix with jujube paste, and shape into small cakes; yam

Peel the yam and grind it into a fine powder; mix the flour and yam powder, add water and knead until smooth, then press into round wrappers.

Wrap the filling with jujube paste, shape it into a ball, then gently flatten it into a patty and fry it in oil until both sides are golden brown.

When it turns golden brown, it's ready to eat.

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Functions: Tonifies the spleen and stomach, nourishes qi and blood, suitable for those with spleen deficiency, poor appetite, and pale complexion.

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> 18. **Chicken and Frog**

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Ingredients: 75g frog oil, 250g chicken breast, 100g pork tenderloin.

50g jujubes, 15g ham, 100g egg white, 25g lard, scallions and ginger

Water, cooking wine, salt, MSG, cornstarch, and clear broth as needed.

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Preparation and usage: Wash the frog oil, put it in a bowl, add scallion and ginger water and cooking wine.

Steam in a steamer for about 1 hour, until it expands, then remove, rinse clean, and remove the black fibers.

Soak in cold water again; wash and pit the dates, then dice them; chicken breast and pork tenderloin.

Finely chop all ingredients, place in a bowl, add water, salt, cooking wine, MSG, cornstarch, and egg white, and stir.

> Mix into a thin paste; drain the water from the fermented frog oil and mix it into the thin chicken paste.

Place a clean pot on the stove, add water, scallion and ginger water, cooking wine, salt, MSG, diced dates, and simmering water.

> Add the minced chicken leg, bring to a boil, then add the chicken and frog meat. Bring to a boil again, then reduce heat and simmer until the chicken...

Once the mushrooms float to the surface, drizzle in a little cornstarch to thicken the sauce, then drizzle in lard before plating.

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Function: This dish is a high-grade nourishing food, rich in protein, and has the effects of tonifying the kidneys and replenishing essence.

It has the effect of nourishing the lungs and replenishing yin, making qi and blood vigorous and giving the complexion a rosy glow.

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**19.** **Steamed Eggs with Lotus Seeds and Longan**

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Ingredients: 2 eggs, 15 grams each of lotus seeds and dried longan pulp, 6 jujubes, and appropriate amount of white sugar.

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Preparation and usage: Boil the eggs, peel them, remove the pits from the dates, and combine them with lotus seeds and dried longan pulp.

Place them in a stewing pot, add an appropriate amount of boiling water and white sugar, and steam until cooked through.

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Function: Calms the mind and soothes the nerves; suitable for those with deficiency of both heart and spleen, palpitations, fatigue, poor appetite, lethargy, insomnia, and excessive dreaming.

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> 20. **Ganmai Dazao Tang**

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Ingredients: 50 grams of wheat, 6 jujubes.

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Preparation and usage: Wash the wheat thoroughly and set aside. Put it in a pot, add water, bring to a boil and cook for about 10 minutes. Add jujubes and cook into a soup. Drink the soup.

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Function: Nourishes the heart and calms the mind; suitable for those suffering from visceral agitation who experience mental confusion and poor complexion.

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(II) Skin-Nourishing Fruit – Cherry

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Cherries, which ripen before all other fruits, were called "Yingtao" in ancient times because the oriole (a bird that loves to peck at them) got their name.

(From *Lüshi Chunqiu*). Li Shizhen of the Ming Dynasty, in his *Compendium of Materia Medica*, stated that "its grains are like jewels."

> The character "璎" (ying) is a homophone for "樱" (ying), and because it resembles a peach, it is called "樱桃" (yingtao). Pan Yue of the Han Dynasty wrote...

The poem "Ode to the Red Fruit" praises it as "shining like a Sui pearl, bright as a constellation of stars"; Bai Juyi of the Tang Dynasty wrote in his poem "Cherry Blossoms"...

The poem "Peach" describes it as "like a pearl without a hole, like fire that doesn't burn people," all appreciating its beautiful shape and color.

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Cherries are not only delicious and appealing, but they also have health benefits and beautifying effects.

Its effects are described in medical books such as *Mingyi Bielu* and *Beiji Qianjin Fang* as: regulating the middle burner and replenishing qi, thus...

People appreciate beauty and aspirations. Pharmacopoes such as the *Diannan Bencao* further explain that cherries "treat..."

"It can greatly replenish vital energy and moisturize the skin for all kinds of deficiency syndromes."

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The reason cherries can "give you a good complexion" is because they are rich in nutrients.

> Related to the content. According to scientific analysis: Cherries not only contain a certain amount of protein, but also various amino acids.

It contains amino acids, carbohydrates, and small amounts of fat and dietary fiber, as well as a variety of vitamins.

It contains vitamins and minerals. Its vitamin C content is twice that of peaches, and it also contains carotene.

Its content is 5.5 times that of peaches, and its iron content is particularly high, ranking first among all fruits, even higher than apples.

> Fruits like oranges and pears contain 20 times more nutrients. These nutrients not only benefit the body's immune function,

It plays a vital role in energy metabolism and cellular composition, and can also protect the large...

Iron is beneficial to the brain and nervous system, and helps slow down aging. Iron deficiency can reduce hemoglobin and blood pigment levels.

This can cause pale, dry skin, brittle and falling hair, and brittle, breaking nails; a deficiency in Vitamin C.

> And carotene can reduce the skin's resistance to various germs, from

This can lead to dry, bleeding, fragile, inflamed, and pigmented skin. Therefore, appropriate use...

Cherries can indeed help improve health and complexion.