Original author: Editor/Operation: Bodhi Yan
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Huiping Township, Qujiang District, Quzhou City is an old revolutionary base area. In recent years, the rise of red cultural tourism and Chinese herbal medicine planting has promoted the development of medicinal food industry in local farms. The reporter of "Pocket Quzhou" reported the efforts of the township government to build a brand of medicated diet with the title of "Welcome to Huiping Township with Fragrance". We also followed the smell and walked into the pioneer farm in Baita New Village, Huiping. Xu Zhizhen, the head of Pioneer Farm, has been studying medicinal diet for decades. Her farmhouse medicinal diet is well known, and tourists who come to the mountains for red education and rock climbing will come to taste her "local dishes". "Three-and-a-half" chicken pot, Polygonatum barbecued ribs, embroidered needle stewed trotters ... Today, we mainly introduce "three-and-a-half" chicken pot.
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Above: Photo of Pioneer Farm and "Three and a Half" Chicken Pot in Baita New Village, Huiping Township, Qujiang District, Quzhou City.
In early September, the climate in Hangzhou was still as hot as summer. The osmanthus trees in the courtyard of Pioneer Farm are in full bloom and have a pleasant aroma. I was surprised that it suddenly smelled of chicken soup. I saw Xu Zhizhen walking briskly with a casserole of chicken soup and putting it on the stone table in the yard. Huang Cancan chicken oil adorns Lycium barbarum to stimulate appetite. We ask Xu Zhizhen to introduce this medicinal diet. She is usually witty and shy. She said, I am really embarrassed in front of so many experts. Then listen to the experts.
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Above: Xu Zhizhen introduces the "three and a half" chicken pot to experts.
A few years ago, a reporter interviewed Wang Guojun, director of the Chinese Medicine Department of Jinhua Hospital of Traditional Chinese Medicine, about "three and a half": What is "three and a half"? According to the ancient calculation of 30 grams as one or two, "three and a half" is composed of four kinds of Chinese medicines, and the total amount is exactly three and a half, which is the origin of the name. "Sanban" has two prescriptions, in which different Chinese medicines have different effects.
Prescription 1: Radix Astragali 30g, Radix Codonopsis 30g, Radix Angelicae Sinensis 30g, Radix Achyranthis Bidentatae 15g. This is a classic routine prescription, which has the functions of invigorating qi and blood, strengthening tendons and bones. Suitable for people with weak constitution and sore waist and legs.
Prescription 2: Radix Astragali 30g, Radix Codonopsis 30g, Radix Angelicae Sinensis 30g, Radix Saposhnikoviae15g. Has the effects of invigorating qi and blood and preventing exogenous diseases. Suitable for people with weak constitution and easy to catch a cold.
"Sanban Medicinal Liquor" included in People's Republic of China (PRC) Pharmacopoeia is the name of Chinese patent medicine. Comprise angelica, radix astragali Preparata, Achyranthis radix and radix Saposhnikoviae. Has the effects of invigorating qi, promoting blood circulation, expelling wind and dredging collaterals. It can be used for treating qi-blood disharmony and rheumatalgia. On the basis of this prescription of Chinese patent medicine, drugs can be added or subtracted according to personal needs. Yan, an old man from Yunhe Town, Yunhe County, Zhejiang Province, 104 years old. When we ask him, what is the secret of longevity? He walked over and said that he had drunk the "three flavors and a half medicinal liquor" brewed by himself for decades because of the old problem of rheumatism and pain.
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Above: Yan, a centenarian in Yunhe Town, Yunhe County, Zhejiang Province, and his homemade "three-and-a-half-minute medicinal liquor".
I searched the Wanfang data knowledge service platform for the keywords "three and a half", "Treating lumbago due to deficiency of kidney-qi", "Treating lumbar muscle strain three and a half", "Treating osteoporosis pain three and a half" and so on. Regarding the "three and a half", there are also some folk remedies. For example, pregnant women eat old hens and stew "three and a half" to replenish deficiency and nourish blood; Growing boys eat cocks and stew "three and a half" people and so on.
Xu Zhizhen's pioneer farm "three-and-a-half" chicken pot uses the first recipe.