🌿 Folk Prescriptions

Celery and Black Date Soup
Ingredients: 500 grams of water celery, 250 grams of black dates.
Preparation: Wash and remove pits from black dates, then boil them together with celery pieces.
Efficacy: Nourishes liver and kidneys, lowers blood pressure and lipid levels.
Indications: Suitable for hyperlipidemia due to liver and kidney deficiency with floating yang.
Notes: This dietary therapy offers good auxiliary treatment for hyperlipidemia. Celery, sweet in taste and cool in nature, clears liver heat and calms liver yang, demonstrating clear effects in lowering blood pressure and lipid levels; black dates, sweet and warm in nature, nourish the liver and kidneys and moisten dryness to generate body fluids. Combined, they jointly achieve the effects of nourishing liver and kidneys, lowering lipids, and reducing blood pressure. Clinically, this is especially suitable for hyperlipidemia and hypertension patients with yin deficiency and yang hyperactivity.
Polygonum and Black Bean Chicken Soup
Ingredients: 15 grams of Chinese knotweed (Polygonum multiflorum), 50 grams of black beans, 10 jujubes, 1 whole dark-feathered chicken, yellow wine, green onions, ginger, salt, monosodium glutamate, all in appropriate amounts.
Preparation: Remove feathers and internal organs from the dark-feathered chicken. Clean polygonum, black beans, and jujubes separately, place inside the chicken cavity. Put the chicken in a pot, add sufficient water, yellow wine, green onion segments, ginger slices, and salt. Boil over high heat, then reduce to low heat and simmer until the chicken is tender. Add a little green onion and monosodium glutamate for seasoning. Consume one dose every 1–2 weeks. Efficacy: Nourishes yin and blood, supplements liver and kidneys, lowers lipid levels.
Indications: Suitable for hyperlipidemia due to liver and kidney deficiency with yin and blood insufficiency.
Notes: This formula has strong restorative effects and is a commonly used medicinal diet for treating hyperlipidemia. Polygonum is mild in nature, with excellent effects in nourishing liver and kidneys and enriching essence and blood; black beans supplement kidney yin, moisturize kidney dryness, strengthen spleen and kidneys, promote diuresis, and have excellent anti-aging and nourishing functions; dark-feathered chicken nourishes without greasiness, warms without drying, replenishes yin and blood, fills essence, and treats various deficiencies. Used together, their strengthening effects are greatly enhanced, collectively achieving the goals of nourishing yin and blood, supplementing liver and kidneys, and lowering lipid levels.
Braised Winter Melon with Vegetables
Ingredients: 200 grams of winter melon, vegetable oil, refined salt, chopped green onions, monosodium glutamate, all in appropriate amounts.
Preparation: Peel, remove pulp and seeds from winter melon, cut into rectangular blocks. Heat wok, stir-fry winter melon blocks, add refined salt and adequate water, cook until soft, then re-season.
Efficacy: Promotes diuresis, reduces swelling, lowers lipids, aids weight loss.
Indications: Suitable for all types of hyperlipidemia. This dietary therapy is ideal for treating hyperlipidemia and obesity. Regular consumption helps reduce weight and improve physical fitness.
Black Fungus and Tofu Soup
Ingredients: 10 grams of black fungus, 250 grams of soft tofu, 30 grams of carrot, 150 grams of rehydrated dried mushrooms.
Preparation: Soak black fungus in warm water, clean after removing impurities; cut tofu into small cubes, wash and dice carrots and mushrooms. First, add one bowl of fresh broth to the pot, add black fungus, carrots, and mushrooms, include ginger, green onions, and salt, bring to boil, then add tofu and monosodium glutamate, drizzle with sesame oil.
Efficacy: Strengthens spleen, removes dampness, promotes bowel movement, lowers lipids.
Indications: Suitable for all types of hyperlipidemia. This dish nourishes central Qi, eliminates dampness, facilitates defecation, softens blood vessels, lowers lipids and blood pressure. Regular consumption by the elderly achieves dual benefits of preventing and treating cardiovascular and cerebrovascular diseases.
In addition, propolis has excellent regulatory effects on blood lipids, helping prevent hyperlipidemia, hypercholesterolemia, and atherosclerosis. It significantly prevents increased collagen fiber deposition within blood vessels and cholesterol accumulation in the liver. Propolis effectively lowers blood lipids, entirely due to its flavonoids, terpenes, and other active components. Propolis improves vascular elasticity and permeability, dilates blood vessels, clears deposits on vessel walls, purifies blood, reduces blood viscosity, improves circulation and hematopoietic function, effectively prevents atherosclerosis, inhibits cerebral thrombosis formation, and protects heart and brain blood vessels.
(Recommended by the Pharmacological Diet Research Association)