What are the benefits of chicken soup with mugwort leaves?

Chicken is a popular food. Many people like to eat chicken. Chicken is not only delicious, but most importantly, it has high nutritional value. There are many ways to cook chicken. For example, making chicken soup is a popular method. Chicken soup is easily absorbed by the human body and tastes mellow and flavorful. Chicken soup made with mugwort can relieve women's irregular menstruation, and can also replenish blood, warm the stomach, and detoxify. What are the effects of chicken soup made with mugwort? Let’s take a look at it next.

1. The efficacy and function of mugwort stewed chicken

Chicken soup with mugwort can regulate menstruation, replenish blood, dispel wind and warm the stomach, clear away heat and detoxify, and it can also calm liver fire, eliminate rheumatism, reduce inflammation, and relieve cough. It has certain therapeutic effects on dysmenorrhea, irregular menstruation, cold uterus and pregnancy maintenance. Because old hens are good at removing wind, they are generally used to make mugwort soup.

2. How to make chicken stewed with mugwort leaves

Main ingredients: 70 grams of dried mugwort and 1 old hen weighing about 1500 grams.

3. Seasoning

Appropriate amount of refined salt and 10 grams of ginger.

4. Steps

1. Bleed the old hen, pluck the feathers, remove the internal organs, then wash and cut into large pieces.

2. Wash the ginger (do not peel it) and flatten it.

3. Wash the clay pot, put in the old hen, mugwort stems, ginger and add water.

4. Bring to a boil over high heat first, cook for about 5 minutes, then switch to low heat and cook until the water starts to boil. Cook for about 1.5 to 2 hours.

5. Add appropriate amount of refined salt and then drink.

5. Reminder

When choosing dried mugwort, the thicker and older the rhizome, the better; the more fragrant it smells, the better; the more mugwort leaves, the better; the ones that smell more fragrant are of the highest quality. The effects of mugwort roots and stems are much better than mugwort leaves, so mugwort roots and stems are generally used to make soup.

6. Basic contents of mugwort chicken stew

Mugwort chicken soup is a traditional nourishing soup of the Hakka people, which has excellent nourishing effects. It is said that local women in Meizhou must drink chicken soup cooked with mugwort during the confinement period. In fact, it is not only very suitable for women who are weak after childbirth, but also has the effect of nourishing and warming the stomach for men.

In addition to its nourishing effects, this soup also tastes very attractive. The fragrance of plants combined with the sweetness of chicken makes it very comfortable and stomach-warming to drink. However, to make mugwort chicken soup with excellent taste and efficacy, the selection of ingredients is very particular. The mugwort used to make this soup is not fresh mugwort, but mugwort picked before the fifth day of the fifth lunar month. It must be dried before being used as an ingredient. This kind of mugwort is fragrant enough. The mugwort picked after Qingming Festival has a bitter taste and is no longer suitable for use as an ingredient.