Burdock is a herb taproot plant in the Compositae. It is a vegetable that uses fat and fleshy roots for consumption. Petioles and tender leaves can also be eaten. Burdock seed and burdock root can also be used as medicine.
Burdock fiber can promote the peristalsis of the large intestine, help defecation, lower cholesterol in the body, reduce the accumulation of toxins and waste in the body, and achieve the effect of preventing stroke and preventing gastric cancer and uterine cancer. Western medicine believes that in addition to its pharmacological effects such as diuretic, eliminating stagnation, eliminating phlegm and stopping diarrhea, it is also used as a dietary therapy for constipation, hypertension, and hypercholesterolemia. Traditional Chinese medicine believes that it has the effects of dispelling wind and dissipating heat, dispersing lung and clearing rash, detoxifying and relieving throat. It can be used for wind-heat colds, cough and phlegm, measles, rubella, and sore throat. "Materia Medica Sutra" calls it "the three essential medicines for dispelling wind, removing heat and detoxifying." The Compendium of Materia Medica says that it "opens the twelve meridians, washes the evil energy of the five internal organs" and "takes it for a long time, lightens the body and withers aging." The pharmacological effects of burdock are summarized in my country's "Dictionary of Modern Traditional Chinese Medicine" and "Dictionary of Traditional Chinese Medicine" as follows: it has growth-promoting effect; it has substances that inhibit tumor growth; and it has antibacterial and antifungal effects.
Chinese wolfberry burdock and old duck soup
By AliyaBarrows
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Steps for Chinese wolfberry burdock and old duck soup
1
A burdock 250g, half a roast duck rack, three slices of ginger, a section of onion.
2
Pour a little bit of oil into the pan. It's really enough. Just enough to saute the ginger slices and spring onions to fragrant. Then put it in the duck rack and stir fry. The duck rack will continue to produce oil. Then add a casserole of water, cover the lid, and boil over high heat for five minutes.
3
After boiling for five minutes, pour into the casserole, cover, and start simmering over low heat for an hour.
4
After an hour, peel the burdock and cut it into hob blocks. When doing this, you must move quickly, otherwise the burdock will turn black in a while, and then the soup will turn black. My soup will turn black.
5
Put burdock and wolfberry into the soup, bring to a boil over medium heat, turn to low heat again, continue cooking for another hour, add salt 10 minutes before taking out of the pan.
6
It's out of the pot. Look how much oil this duck has produced! I threw it all out.
7
Skim the oil and serve in a bowl.