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The history of porridge health preservation
Porridge health care has a long history in China, and it is known as the "magic medicine" for nourishing the stomach and "the first to help others in the world". Among the fourteen kinds of medical books unearthed from Mawangdui Han Tomb in Changsha, there are records of medicinal porridge. In other words, our ancestors used porridge to prevent and treat diseases more than two thousand years ago. When cooking porridge, the starch contained in rice is fully gelatinized, the nutrients are soluble in water, and the gastrointestinal tract can be fully digested and absorbed, which is not only suitable for the elderly, children and patients, but also suitable for busy urbanites. No wonder Li Shizhen said, "Porridge, which is compatible with the stomach, is the best food.

Porridge plays an important role in traditional nutrition. Like soup, porridge has the characteristics of simple preparation, flexible addition and subtraction, wide adaptability and easy digestion and absorption, which is very suitable for long-term consumption for health preservation and key protection. Not only that, Huang Yungu in the Qing Dynasty also said in his "Porridge Spectrum" that porridge is the most suitable for the elderly: one is saving money, the other is full of taste, the third is nourishing and moistening, the fourth is diaphragmatic, and the fifth is easy to digest, and he strongly advocates porridge health care.

Lu You also strongly recommended eating porridge for health preservation, thinking that it can prolong life, and wrote a famous poem "Eating Porridge", in which he wrote, "All people in the world are elderly, but they don't know that many years are in sight. I want to learn from the people and only eat porridge for the gods. "

What are the common medicinal porridge that has been circulated among the people for a long time and has certain curative effect? There are also many varieties. These medicinal porridge ingredients are simple, and the so-called "drugs" are almost all ordinary foods, which are easy to find, easy to get and cheap. Because it is economical, has health care function and no side effects, it is easy to be remembered and understood by people.

Folk porridge therapy songs should be combined well, and porridge should be cooked with red dates.

If you want to keep your eyes open, add white lotus to your porridge.

Waist soreness and kidney qi deficiency add chestnuts to porridge.

Lack of conscience, longan porridge.

Dizziness and sweating, add coix seed to porridge.

Moisten the lungs and relieve cough, and add lily to porridge.

Clearing heat and detoxifying, often eating mung bean porridge.

Black hair tonifying kidney, walnut porridge.

In order to lower blood pressure, lotus leaves are added to porridge.

Nourishing yin and moistening lung is good, and tremella cooks porridge.

To prevent meningitis in spring, shepherd's purse porridge is good.

Strengthen the spleen to help digestion, and add hawthorn to porridge.

MUBI double forgetfulness, egg yolk porridge.

Diuretic swelling cures beriberi, and red bean porridge is a tonic.

Clearing heat, promoting fluid production and harmonizing stomach, sugarcane porridge is more delicious.

Cold and abdominal pain, ginger porridge has a miraculous effect.

Nourishing pain, nourishing liver and improving eyesight is good, and wolfberry porridge should have an effect.

Quench thirst, strengthen the spleen and replenish the five internal organs, and put lentils in porridge.

Nourish qi and blood to resist hunger and cold, and put raisins in porridge.

Common medicinal porridge mung bean porridge: clearing away heat and toxic materials, and stopping polydipsia.

Red bean porridge: clearing heat and removing dampness.

Glutinous rice porridge: Keep fit and rest at ease.

Millet porridge: nourishing stomach yin and clearing heat.

Sweet potato porridge: It helps digestion and clears the stomach.

Jujube porridge: benefiting qi, enriching blood and calming the nerves.

Chestnut porridge: tonify the kidney and benefit the waist and feet.

Ginger porridge: warm and moderate coke, cold and wet society.

Onion black bean porridge: Dispelling wind and cold, relaxing muscles and relieving exterior syndrome.

Sesame porridge: nourishing liver and kidney, blackening hair.

Chicken porridge: spleen, kidney and blood.

Pork ribs porridge: strong waist and kidney, strong bones and muscles.

Fish porridge: tonify the spleen and stomach and promote diuresis.

Vegetable porridge: nourishing yin and clearing heat.

Boat porridge: strengthening the spleen and stomach, benefiting water and eliminating dampness.

Coix seed porridge: in addition to damp heat, it benefits the stomach.

Lotus porridge: strengthening the spleen and stomach to stop diarrhea.

Gorgon porridge: the same essence and clear ears.

Porridge porridge: strengthen the spleen and stomach and benefit moisture.

Zhi Zhu porridge: invigorate the spleen and stomach, and remove accumulated phlegm.

Yam porridge: beneficial to strength and kidney essence.

Gouqi porridge: engage in aging and improve eyesight.

Walnut porridge: tonify kidney yang and strengthen waist and legs.

Lotus leaf rice: thick spleen and stomach, triple energizer

The above medicated porridge is only a small part, and elderly friends can also prepare medicated porridge with special effects according to their actual situation. That is, the main components of rice remain unchanged, and other foods (or drugs) can be changed at will, especially when people need to recuperate and recover from illness, the effect is remarkable.

The practice of medicated porridge is very simple, similar to ordinary porridge. It's just a question of whether to cook the ingredients first or later according to the difficulty of cooking.