"Five grains" correspond to "five internal organs", and "five internal organs contain innate qi". Eating all grains is beneficial to the loss of vitality of the five internal organs, so that the "five qi" and the "essence of the five grains" can maintain the health of life with one heart and one mind. Otherwise, even if one essence of the five grains is missing, the balance of the two qi will be broken one after another, and the small one will get sick and the big one will die.
Rice (rice) enters the spleen meridian, stomach meridian and lung meridian, and has the functions of tonifying the middle energizer, strengthening the spleen and regulating the stomach, nourishing yin and moistening the lungs, removing annoyance and quenching thirst. Ancient health care doctors also advocated "morning porridge" to promote fluid production. Therefore, patients with cough and constipation caused by lung yin deficiency can cook porridge with rice in the morning and evening. Drinking rice porridge often helps to increase body fluid and relieve discomfort such as dry skin to some extent. If you add some pears when cooking porridge, the effect will be better.
(1) halitosis or oral ulcer: soak 50g of crushed rice in 500g of cold boiled water and rinse your mouth several times a day to treat halitosis or oral ulcer.
(2) Dyspepsia: The rice stored in Chen Jiu is also a traditional Chinese medicine, called Chencang rice, which is old rice. Has the effects of nourishing spleen and stomach, relieving restlessness and quenching thirst, and can be used for treating spleen and stomach weakness, dyspepsia, fullness after eating, polydipsia or diarrhea and dysentery after treatment. Rice sprouts made of rice are also blindly Chinese medicine, which can help digestion and bloating. The prescription made of rice alone can cure many diseases.
Chinese medicine believes that wheat is sweet in taste and flat in nature, which can nourish the spleen and stomach, make wood for fire, indirectly nourish the heart, stop sweating and remove steaming. According to the "Compendium of Materia Medica", the ancients believed that "wheat grows in winter in autumn, and bears fruit in summer in spring, which has the spirit of four seasons, so it is expensive to have five grains."
Wheat is good at invigorating heart qi, which can cure irritability and "women's dirty impatience", that is, lack of heart blood, which is manifested as insomnia, dreaminess, palpitation, repeated yawning and crying (equivalent to menopausal syndrome). Wheat can be eaten with jujube and licorice. For those who are physically weak, spontaneous sweating and night sweats, it is advisable to use floating wheat (immature tender wheat, which is not dry enough and floats on the water when washing) to decoct with Radix Astragali and Fructus Jujubae.
Black beans are the valley of kidney, sweet and flat in taste, and belong to spleen meridian and kidney meridian. Traditional Chinese medicine believes that it has the effects of tonifying kidney and strengthening body, promoting blood circulation and promoting diuresis, detoxifying and moistening skin, and is especially suitable for people with kidney deficiency. Fermented black beans have the best effect on tonifying kidney. Compendium of Materia Medica says: Eating black beans often won't make you sick.
The protein content of black beans is 49.8%, which ranks first among all beans and has the reputation of "king of beans". Black beans are nutritious, rich in protein, vitamins and minerals, and have the effects of promoting blood circulation, diuresis, expelling wind and detoxifying; The contents of zinc, copper, magnesium, molybdenum, selenium, fluorine and other trace elements in black beans are very high, which are very important for delaying human aging and reducing blood viscosity. Black soybean skin is black and contains anthocyanins, which is a good source of antioxidants, and can scavenge free radicals in the body, especially in the acidic environment of the stomach, with good antioxidant effect, beauty and health care, and increase gastrointestinal peristalsis.
Dietary remedies: black beans and black chicken soup.
(1) materials: black beans 150g, Polygonum multiflorum 100g, black-bone chicken 1, red dates 10, 5g of ginger, and proper amount of refined salt.
(2) Practice: Viscerate the black-bone chicken and wash it for later use. Dry-fry black beans in an iron pan until the skin of the beans cracks, then wash them with clear water and dry them for later use. Wash Polygonum Multiflori Radix, Fructus Jujubae and Rhizoma Zingiberis Recens respectively, remove the core from Fructus Jujubae and peel and slice Rhizoma Zingiberis Recens for later use. Add appropriate amount of water to the pot, bring it to a boil with high fire, add black beans, Polygonum Multiflori Radix, black-bone chicken, red dates and ginger, continue to cook for about 3 hours on medium fire, and add appropriate amount of refined salt to make soup.
(3) Efficacy: nourishing blood and beauty, nourishing heart and calming nerves, and blackening hair.
Millet has the effects of strengthening the spleen and stomach and tonifying deficiency. Therefore, millet with the function of warming and tonifying is undoubtedly a good medicine for people with spleen and stomach deficiency and cold. For people with spleen and stomach deficiency such as diarrhea, use fresh millet to cook porridge and take rice oil to strengthen the spleen, which is effective.
Dietary remedies: millet pumpkin wolfberry porridge.
(1) materials: pumpkin about 250g, millet 120g, and Lycium barbarum.
(2) practice; Peel and seed the pumpkin and cut it into small pieces. Wash medlar and millet for later use. Add water to the pot, bring to a boil, and add pumpkin and millet. Turn the pan back to low heat. Cook until the porridge is thick, and put the medlar into the pot.
(3) Efficacy: soothe the nerves and detoxify, replenish qi and solidify essence, and nourish liver and kidney. Protect gastric mucosa, improve immunity and protect eyesight.
Sorghum has the function of nourishing the liver and benefiting the stomach.
Nourishing eating method: fried sorghum noodles have the effect of convergence and diarrhea, and people with chronic diarrhea can continue to eat for a while.