With the arrival of dog days, people's diet is mainly light. We know that drinking health porridge in dog days has many benefits, which can not only supplement nutrition, but also help digestion.

1, lotus root and mung bean porridge

Mung bean porridge is more common. Lotus root itself has the function of protecting liver and soothing liver. This porridge clears away heat and nourishes blood. Because lotus root itself has starch, this porridge is thick and fragrant when cooked.

Lotus root, mung bean, rice. Appropriate amount of rice and mung beans, after washing, cook porridge. Peel the lotus root, wash it, cut it into small pieces with the width of 1 cm, and blanch it to prevent discoloration. After the mung bean porridge is cooked, add the lotus root pieces. After the lotus root is cooked thoroughly, you can add salt or sugar to taste it, or you can try to smell the original flavor.

2, Huoxiang barley porridge

Huoxiang barley porridge mainly plays the role of dispelling summer heat, relieving exterior syndrome, eliminating dampness and regulating stomach. Pogostemon is generally available in Chinese medicine shops, and highland barley is highland barley. This kind of porridge has a good effect on heatstroke and indigestion.

Pogostemon cablin, coix seed, rice. Coix seed is not easy to cook. Soak it after washing 1 hour. After soaking, put it in the pot until it blooms and set it aside. Wash and cook rice, and mix with Coicis Semen. If you buy fresh agastaches, you can squeeze juice like lotus leaves and put it in porridge; If it's dried patchouli in a pharmacy, take a little, wash it, soak it, and finally put it in the pot.

3. barley porridge

Coix seed, also known as Coix seed, Coix seed and Coix seed, is a common Chinese medicine and a common and frequently eaten food. Sweet in taste and slightly cold in nature, it is beneficial to detumescence, strengthening the spleen and eliminating dampness, and is a commonly used medicine for diuresis and eliminating dampness. Coix seed is also a kind of beauty food, which can keep the skin shiny and delicate, eliminate acne, spotted finches, senile plaques, pregnancy spots and butterfly spots, and has a good curative effect on dandruff, acne and chapped skin.

Coix seed, rice. Wash and mash Coicis Semen, wash rice, use appropriate amount of water, and cook into porridge. Eat warm twice a day. Constipation and pregnant women should use this prescription with caution.

4, watermelon skin mung bean porridge

Watermelon peel has diuretic effect and can also clear away heat and relieve summer heat. Mung bean can also clear away heat, relieve summer heat and detoxify, and it is also a good product for nourishing the spleen and stomach. Has the effects of clearing away heat, relieving summer-heat, promoting diuresis and reducing swelling.

Watermelon peel, mung bean, rice. Boil rice and mung beans in a pot for 10 minutes, peel off the hard skin of watermelon peel, cut it into cubes, put it in a pot, boil it with high fire, and then cook it into porridge with low fire. You can add some sugar or broken tangerine peel when eating.

5, chrysanthemum bitter melon porridge

The bitter gourd in chrysanthemum bitter melon porridge can clear away heat and relieve summer heat, stop dysentery and detoxify, and is suitable for heatstroke, polydipsia and dysentery. When drinking this porridge, you should avoid all warm, dry, spicy and greasy things.

Bitter gourd, dried chrysanthemum, rice. After washing rice, cook porridge in the pot. Wash bitter gourd, remove pulp, cut into small pieces and blanch for later use. Dry a few chrysanthemums, soak them in hot water, and tear off the petals for later use. After the porridge is cooked, add the blanched bitter gourd and chrysanthemum petals and cook for 5 minutes. If you are afraid of suffering, you can put a little rock sugar to cook, or you can directly clear the fire from the bitter food.

6, jujube glutinous rice porridge

Jujube glutinous rice porridge has the effects of invigorating spleen and regulating stomach, nourishing qi and blood, inducing diuresis to stop diarrhea, promoting fluid production to quench thirst, and is suitable for patients with physical weakness, anemia, malnutrition, anorexia and chronic enteritis after illness.

Glutinous rice, red dates and brown sugar. Wash glutinous rice and red dates and soak them in water for half an hour. Put a proper amount of water in the pot to boil, filter out the water from the soaked glutinous rice and pour it into boiling water. Add red dates. Stir with a spoon, so that the rice won't stick to the bottom of the pot. After boiling, turn to low heat, cover and leave a small gap, and cook for 30 minutes. Watch carefully and don't let the porridge overflow. Open the lid, stir with a spoon and cook for about 10 minutes. Serve, add appropriate amount of brown sugar, stir well and serve while it is hot.

7, mung bean lily lotus seed porridge

Cooking these cool foods into porridge can not only relieve summer heat, but also clear away heat and detoxify in dog days; Beans are rich in nutrients, which can nourish the spleen and stomach and clear the heart.

Rice, lily (dried), lotus seeds, mung beans, rock sugar. Wash rice with clear water, wash lily and cut into small pieces; Wash the lotus seeds; Add a proper amount of water to the pot to boil, and add rice, lotus seeds and mung beans to boil; Turn to medium heat and cook for half an hour. Add lily and rock sugar and boil.

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