Secret recipes for aphrodisiacs from ancient Chinese medicine masters

　　Mutton and leek porridge cures infertility in Yuan Dynasty emperors

　　During the Yanyou period of the Yuan Dynasty, Yuan Renzong defeated the Tsar's invading army in Xinjiang and returned to Dadu. Due to several years of military camp life, traveling around, overwork, kidney qi deficiency, and Impotence disease, very painful. After the imperial physician Hu Sihui found out, he treated him with "sheep kidney and leek porridge". Take 1 pair of sheep kidneys, 100g of mutton, 150g of leeks, 30g of wolfberry, and 100g of japonica rice. Cut the lamb kidney in half and cut into nail shapes; wash and chop the lamb and leeks. First put the sheep kidney, mutton, wolfberry, and japonica rice in the pot, add an appropriate amount of water, and cook the porridge over a slow fire. When it is almost cooked, add the leeks, then boil it for two or three times, and let Yuan Renzong eat it every day. Within three months, Yuan Renzong's impotence was cured and the princess became pregnant. He was very happy and ordered Hu Sihui to list this porridge as a good recipe for palace meals and eat it regularly.

　　Why can this porridge improve people's sexual function? It turns out that the sheep kidney and mutton in the porridge not only contain nutrients such as protein, fat, various minerals and vitamins, but also contain a certain amount of sex hormones. Traditional Chinese medicine also believes that sheep kidney can warm and nourish kidney qi, replenish marrow and essence, which is Kidney deficiency Commonly used animal organs due to strain; mutton has always been used as a good food to replenish yang, and can warm the middle and dispel cold, warm and replenish qi and blood, whet the appetite and strengthen the spleen, replenish kidney qi, and replenish the body's weak body; leeks, also known as aphrodisiacs and yangcao among the people, have the functions of tonifying the kidneys and yang, strengthening the stomach and refreshing the mind, and harmonizing the internal organs. Modern pharmacological research believes that it contains protein, Fat, carbohydrate, calcium, phosphorus, iron, carotene, thiamine, riboflavin, niacin, ascorbic acid and other nutrients are aphrodisiac foods; wolfberry is a good product for replenishing qi and producing sperm, strengthening yang and benefiting the kidneys; japonica rice calms the internal organs, replenishes qi and blood, and is cooked into porridge, which is easy to absorb, so it can treat impotence caused by kidney deficiency. Quite effective.

　　In ancient Chinese herbal books, many famous Chinese medicine experts have summarized many effective dietary prescriptions for nourishing the kidneys and strengthening yang based on their experience in treating diseases. Some of them are as follows.

　　Recipe 1, 15 grams of Cordyceps sinensis, 1 old male duck. Place the Cordyceps sinensis inside the cleaned duck belly, add water and stew until cooked, season it and then eat it. It has the effect of treating impotence due to kidney deficiency, nocturnal emission, soreness of waist and knees, chronic cough and asthma, and physical weakness after illness. (Supplements to "Compendium of Materia Medica" of the Qing Dynasty)

　　Recipe 2: 10 grams of Eucommia powder and 1 pork loin. First wash and cut the loin, then mix in the minced Eucommia ulmoides, wrap it in lotus leaves, simmer it and eat it. Mainly used to treat kidney deficiency low back pain , impotence, spermatorrhea, high blood pressure, fetal dysphoria, etc. disease . ("Compendium of Materia Medica" of the Ming Dynasty)

　　Recipe 3: 20 grams of wolfberry leaves, 60 grams of mutton, 1 sheep kidney, 100 grams of japonica rice, and 2 green onions. First cut the sheep kidney open, wash and chop it, then boil the wolfberry leaves to extract the juice, then use the wolfberry leaf juice with the sheep kidney, mutton, japonica rice, and scallions to make porridge, add salt to taste, and eat it every morning and evening. It is suitable for symptoms such as kidney deficiency and impotence, cold pain in waist and knees, dizziness, tinnitus, blurred vision, hearing loss, frequent nocturia and other symptoms. (Yuan Shan Zheng Yao)

　　Recipe 4: 60 grams of fresh leeks and 60 grams of japonica rice. Wash the leeks and cut them into pieces. After the japonica rice porridge is boiled, add the leeks and salt and cook together into a gruel. Eat it on an empty stomach in the morning. It has the functions of nourishing the liver and kidneys, warming the waist and knees, aphrodisiac, fixing essence, and warming the stomach. (Compendium of Materia Medica of the Ming Dynasty).