Immortal Rations
Huang Jing (Solomon's Seal) Polygonatum sibericum
Nine times steamed and dried, 黄精 Huang Jing is a special Chinese medicine food that is known for its use by Daoist adepts who were fasting and meditating. They would eat this to ward off hunger. It also enhances meditation.
Huangjing, a traditional Chinese medicine, is sweet and flat, restoring spleen, lung and kidney channels.
From Ben Cao Gang Mu Jing Vol III: Mountain herbs (pg128)...
"In ancient times, Huang Di asked the Celestial Elder: Among items that grow between Heaven and Earth, is there anything that, if eaten, prevents one from dying? The Celestial Elder replied: An herb of major yang named huang jing, when eaten, it prolongs one's life."
You can chew it or brew it in hot water like tea. For eating, start with 1 cun (your thumb width) per day and increase to 10 cun per day. You can chop it up and add it to trail mix! We suggest a special super mix of sesame seed, pine nut, goji berry, jujube, and huang jing!
"Yellow Essence" belongs to the lily family. Alias is also called xian ren yu liang "leftover provisions of hermits and immortals", and jie qiong cao "herb that rescues the poor". It is a medicine and food homology tonic. With the enhancement of modern health consciousness, Huangjing has gradually become a high-grade tonic product that people must eat. Yellow essence has gradually entered thousands of households and ordinary people's homes!
Entering spleen, lung, kidney channel, has the function of nourishing Yin, moistening lung, supplementing Qi, used to treat lung Yin deficiency caused by dry cough less sputum, sputum with blood; Kidney essence deficiency waist and knee sour and soft, hair and white; For the treatment of spleen and stomach weakness, fatigue and little food.
It has been determined that Huangjing contains at least 17 kinds of amino acids, and also contains various trace elements, such as iron, zinc, copper and manganese. Among them, iron is involved in the synthesis of hemoglobin. It also contains vitamin C and vitamin B. Hubei Province Huangjing is also rich in selenium.
*People with diarrhea and phlegm dampness full of qi stagnation should not take it.
*Shifu also said it’s not for people with high blood pressure or high blood sugar, as it’s for tonifying
More information on properties, actions, and indications here:
https://www.americandragon.com/Individualherbsupdate/HuangJing.html
An interesting article can be read here: https://iadns.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1002/fft2.231
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