Cistanchis can be consumed, mainly by decocting and taking internally, but also by cooking porridge and soup.
Cistanchis are commonly used in clinical practice to tonify yang. They are warm in nature, sweet and salty in taste, and enter the kidney and large intestine meridians, which can not only tonify the kidney and help yang, benefit essence and blood, but also lubricate the intestines and pass the bowels, and can be used in the cases of whitening of the face (white color and lack of luster), soreness of the lower back and knees, impotence and premature ejaculation in males, and infertility of coldness in females due to the depletion of the essence, and in the cases of constipation due to the depletion of the essence.
It can also be used for constipation caused by depletion of essence. Cistanchis can be boiled with rice and eaten in congee; it can also be eaten in soup with chicken and duck, but it should be avoided by people with weak spleen and stomach, and those who are weak in yin and have high temperatures.
Note that Cistanchis as food, weak, slow to take effect, need to be taken for a long time in order to play a certain effect, food is generally not used to treat diseases, if the body is not feeling well, please consult a doctor in a timely manner, under the guidance of a professional doctor to identify the evidence of the use of reasonable medication, treatment.