Zhang Zhongjing, a medical sage, mentioned porridge many times in Treatise on Febrile Diseases. For example, Guizhi Tang, which is crowned in the group, needs to "sip hot porridge" to help drugs drive away evil spirits. After taking the serious agent "Shizao Decoction" for diarrhea, it is necessary to "nourish porridge" to restore righteousness. In Cao Tingdong's monograph on health preservation in Qing Dynasty, the author paid special attention to nourishing the spleen and stomach with porridge. He proposed that "porridge can benefit people, especially the elderly", and advocated that the elderly should eat porridge to nourish the five internal organs, and introduced various porridge maps in a lot of space.
Porridge plays an important role in the diet of China people, especially the elderly. First of all, it depends on its cooking method. "On China and Tuo Shi" says: "There are three kinds of food, one is cremation and the other is decay; Take a bite and chew it carefully; Abdominal, self-transformed into the stomach. " When people are old, their teeth are loose and fall off, and the function of spleen and stomach transport and transformation is not good. However, after cooking porridge, it hardly needs chewing, is easy to absorb, and is nutritious, light and delicious, so it is a good food suitable for the elderly.
The composition of porridge is mainly cereals, as the Huangdi Neijing said, "Grains feed", and cereals are an important source of carbohydrates, the main energy-supplying substance of human body. Chinese medicine believes that grains correspond to the five internal organs according to the law of five elements. For example, millet belongs to spleen, rice to lung, wheat to heart, beans to kidney and sorghum to liver. Because the spleen and stomach are the foundation of the day after tomorrow, millet, which is good at nourishing the spleen and stomach, is the first of all grains, and millet porridge is also the strongest tonic. The nourishing function of other grains also focuses on the corresponding viscera, so the corresponding grains can be selected according to the deficiency and excess of the viscera.
The ingredients of porridge are not limited to cereals. On the basis of cereals, other commonly used crops, such as potatoes and vegetables, or Chinese medicines such as Lycium barbarum, Coix seed and Euryale euryales, are often added, so that a bowl of mellow porridge has the meaning of compatibility of prescription and medicine, which further strengthens its health care efficacy. If people are very wet, you can drink red bean barley porridge to get rid of dampness; For people with diarrhea due to spleen deficiency, a bowl of yam lotus seed porridge helps to strengthen the spleen and stop diarrhea; People with liver and kidney deficiency can choose Lycium barbarum black rice porridge to nourish the kidney and liver ... Because Chinese medicine is biased, it is best to know your physique under the guidance of Chinese medicine and then make a dialectical choice.
Porridge is mostly whole grains, which is easy to cause blood sugar fluctuation because of its long cooking time and high glycemic index. Therefore, for diabetics, it is necessary to carefully select suitable ingredients, properly match side dishes rich in crude fiber, and pay attention to reducing cooking time, controlling food intake, monitoring blood sugar, and ensuring the stability of blood sugar while enjoying delicious food.
Porridge, cheap and easy to get, is the most common thing in daily life. But it contains the wisdom of Chinese medicine and brings us food and health.
Introduce several simple and practical medicinal porridge for everyone:
Euryale ferox porridge: from herbal soup.
Ingredients: Gordon Euryale 30g, japonica rice or glutinous rice 50g.
Efficacy: benefiting essence, strengthening will, improving hearing and eyesight, treating dampness, lumbago and knee pain, adverse urination and turbid nocturnal emission.
Pueraria porridge: empirical formula
Ingredients: 30g kudzuvine root powder and 50g japonica rice.
Efficacy: clearing away heat and dryness, promoting fluid production and quenching thirst. It is suitable for senile hypertension, coronary heart disease, diabetes, diarrhea due to spleen deficiency and other diseases.
Red bean porridge: from "daily necessities"
Ingredients: adzuki bean 30g, japonica rice 50-100g.
Efficacy: eliminating edema, diuresis, treating beriberi, quenching thirst, stopping diarrhea, abdominal distension and vomiting.
Plantain porridge: from behind the elbow
Ingredients: appropriate amount of plantain seeds, wrapped in cotton and boiled into porridge.
Efficacy: Treating gonorrhea in the elderly, eliminating dampness, promoting diuresis and improving eyesight, treating red pain, eliminating summer heat and dampness, and stopping diarrhea.