Grain is an indispensable food on the table in China, and it is also a traditional staple food. Every kind of food is a gift from nature. Traditional Chinese medicine believes that food also has its own disposition bias and has a certain auxiliary treatment effect. Health is three meals a day, and Chinese medicine can't be separated from us.

Give some examples of grain.

Japonica rice is sweet and flat; Entering the spleen, stomach and lung meridians has the functions of invigorating qi and spleen, quenching thirst and stopping diarrhea.

Recommended medicinal diet-Wuren japonica rice porridge:

Efficacy: invigorating stomach and moistening intestines. Suitable for habitual constipation caused by deficiency of qi and blood; If women have postpartum constipation due to blood deficiency, they can go to peach kernel.

Ingredients: sesame seeds, pine nuts, walnut kernels, peach kernels (peeled and fried), sweet almonds each 15g, and japonica rice 200g.

Practice: mix and crush the above five kernels, add japonica rice to cook porridge, and add appropriate amount of sugar.

Usage: Take 1 time in the morning and evening.

Glutinous rice is sweet and warm; It belongs to spleen, stomach and lung meridians, and has the function of tonifying the middle energizer and benefiting qi.

Recommended medicated diet-glutinous rice and yam powder;

Efficacy: deficiency and cold of spleen and stomach, chronic diarrhea, and reduced diet.

Material: 500 grams of glutinous rice. 50g of yam, and appropriate amount of sugar and pepper.

Practice: soak glutinous rice in water for one night, then drain it, stir-fry it with slow fire, and grind yam into fine powder: mix glutinous rice and yam evenly, and then add appropriate amount of sugar and pepper according to personal taste.

Usage: Take it with less than half a bowl of boiling water every day.

In Li Shizhen's Compendium of Materia Medica, glutinous rice is used to treat spontaneous sweating. The method is to stir-fry glutinous rice and wheat bran together, 9g each time, and drink rice under the soup.

For diarrhea due to spleen deficiency, cook porridge with glutinous rice, lotus seeds, jujube and yam, and add sugar to eat after cooking.

It should be noted that children are soft and sticky, indigestible, damp-heat and phlegm-fire, spleen deficiency, and should not eat more.

Wheat is sweet and cool, and has the functions of nourishing the heart, calming the nerves, moistening the intestines and benefiting the spleen.

There is a famous Ganmai Jujube Decoction in the synopsis of the Golden Chamber written by Zhang Zhongjing, a medical sage, which is used to treat mental disorders, sadness, crying and yawning caused by depression or overthinking. It is often used for menopausal irritability in modern times. Sun Simiao, a famous doctor in the Tang Dynasty, also thought that wheat "nourishes the heart and is suitable for people with heart disease".

50 g of wheat, 0/0 g of licorice/kloc and 0/0 g of jujube/kloc are decocted in water for three times.

Buckwheat: Sweet and cool, invigorating spleen and promoting digestion, regulating qi and moistening intestines, detoxifying and healing sores.

Li Shizhen had a slight abdominal pain in his prime, and he always had loose bowels, but he didn't have much feces. He lost weight and was tired for two months, many times from day to night. It's useless to use the medicine of digestion and qi transformation. A monk asked him to use buckwheat flour for dinner and eat it three or four times.

Therefore, he said in Compendium of Materia Medica, "Buckwheat can reduce qi and moisten intestines, so it can practice gastrointestinal stagnation and treat turbid diarrhea, abdominal pain and upper qi, which is suitable for damp-heat patients." Because of its cool nature, it is not suitable for long-term use, and it is forbidden for those with spleen and stomach deficiency and cold.

Corn: sweet and flat, stomach meridian and intestine meridian; It can regulate appetite, induce diuresis and expel turbidity.

It is often used as an auxiliary diet therapy for anorexia, dysuria, edema, urinary calculi or hypertension. "Materia Medica" records: "It is a medicine for strengthening the stomach. Decocting also has diuretic effect. "

Therefore, dietotherapy and modern nutrition under the guidance of traditional Chinese medicine theory belong to two categories, in which the contents overlap and complement each other, and they regulate the body together. For girls and boys who lose too much weight, eating staple food in moderation is good for their health.