Traditionally, people in China have been eating porridge for breakfast for thousands of years, whether in the south or in the west. Historically, porridge in China was mainly used for food 4000 years ago, and was first used as medicine 2500 years ago. The Biography of Historical Records of Bian Que and Cang Gong records that Chunyu Kun, a famous doctor in the Western Han Dynasty, treated Wang Qi's disease with "Hodge porridge"; Zhang Zhongjing, a medical sage in the Han Dynasty, wrote in Treatise on Febrile Diseases: Taking Guizhi Decoction for a period of time and drinking a liter of hot porridge to help medicine are powerful examples. Drinks and fruit juices were introduced into China after the reform and opening up.
From the nutritional value and diet, porridge is a "stomach-nourishing artifact" and is the best for the body. There is some scientific basis for drinking porridge to nourish the stomach: porridge is usually cooked into slurry and easy to digest, and the stomach no longer needs to be ground, so it can be directly sent to the small intestine for absorption. Therefore, for the "injured" stomach or from the perspective of reducing the burden on the stomach, drinking porridge has a certain stomach-nourishing effect.
Because China people pay attention to health, the advantages of drinking porridge in the morning are:
1. Eating porridge can warm people's spleen and stomach and help people digest food accumulated in their stomachs.
2. quench your thirst. Eating porridge can moisten the throat and eliminate the feeling of thirst.
3, easy to digest, white rice will be gelatinized when the temperature exceeds 60 degrees Celsius, and the cooked soft porridge will melt in the mouth, which is very easy to digest after eating, which is very suitable for people with gastrointestinal discomfort.
4. Enhance appetite and replenish physical strength. When you are sick, you will lose your appetite. Clear porridge with some light appetizers can not only promote appetite, but also supplement physical strength for patients with weak health.
5. Prevent constipation. Porridge contains a lot of water. Drinking more porridge on weekdays can not only satisfy hunger, but also replenish water for the body and effectively prevent constipation.
6. Prevent colds. When it is cold, getting up early and drinking a bowl of hot porridge helps to keep warm, increase the body's ability to keep out the cold and prevent colds.
7. Care for the stomach. Patients with weak stomach function or ulcer should eat less and eat more meals on weekdays, chewing slowly, which is very suitable for drinking porridge to regulate the stomach.