The main ingredient of porridge is rice, and the ingredients are rock sugar, white sugar, brown sugar, honey, onion, ginger, salt and so on. When choosing ingredients, it should be suitable for patients' tastes and targeted according to the nature of the disease. The following briefly introduces the functions of several common ingredients: (1) rock sugar. Ice cubes fried with white sugar crystallize. It has the functions of invigorating the middle energizer, invigorating the stomach and moistening the lungs. Therefore, many medicated porridge can choose rock sugar. (2) white sugar. It is made of brown sugar through sugar washing, centrifugation, honey separation and other processes, removing molasses and impurities, and purifying and refining. In terms of nutritional value, white sugar is not as good as brown sugar, but it is cold and has a better effect of moistening lung and promoting fluid production than brown sugar. (3) brown sugar. It contains brown substances "molasses" and ⅱ chlordecone, lutein, carotene and iron. According to the theory of traditional Chinese medicine, brown sugar is warm and has the effects of benefiting qi, warming the middle warmer, promoting digestion and relieving pain. Therefore, brown sugar, as a seasoning of porridge, is mostly used in medicated porridge for treating deficiency-cold diseases. (4) honey. It has the effects of moistening dryness, invigorating middle warmer, removing toxic substances and relieving pain, and has a good curative effect on constipation due to intestinal dryness, cough due to lung dryness and epigastric pain. Honey is mainly composed of fructose and glucose, but also contains a small amount of sucrose, dextrin, maltose, vitamins and trace elements, which is comprehensive and rich in nutrition. Medicinal porridge can be used as a seasoning for weak patients, but it is not suitable for those with excessive phlegm, moderate fullness and loose stool. (5) onion direction. Xin Wen has the function of sweating and warming the middle warmer. As a food, it is suitable for nourishing yang porridge. (6) ginger. Spicy and warm, it is a common seasoning to warm the stomach, stop vomiting, detoxify and dispel cold. Ginger can be used to correct the taste of medicinal porridge with cold syndrome, but it is generally not suitable for fever. (7) salt. Its main component is sodium chloride, and it also contains a small amount of potassium, magnesium, calcium and other substances. According to the theory of traditional Chinese medicine, salt is delicious, "salty can enter the kidney", so it can be used as a medicinal porridge for tonifying the kidney, such as sheep bone porridge, mutton porridge with meat and cistanche, and medlar and sheep waist porridge. , can be used for seasoning and "citation". However, patients with nephritis should decide the dosage of salt according to their condition. In a word, the choice of porridge supplement ingredients is not only related to the therapeutic effect, but also related to whether patients are willing to take it for a long time. So pay attention to selection when cooking. Extending reading the liver as a general's official will always lead to overall health. How to keep healthy in Tomb-Sweeping Day traditional Chinese medicine diet