This problem should be treated dialectically. Whether you drink porridge to nourish your stomach or not varies from person to person. For healthy people, cooking rice into porridge is softer and easier to digest, which can really reduce the burden on the gastrointestinal tract. From this point of view, drinking porridge is really nourishing the stomach, and it is also true for people with insufficient gastric motility and low gastric acid secretion.
On the other hand, for patients with excessive gastric acid secretion, it is generally not recommended to drink liquid foods such as porridge, so as not to stimulate hyperacidity and aggravate the condition. Therefore, the phrase "drinking porridge to nourish the stomach" does not apply to everyone. However, even healthy people, if they eat too soft and rotten for a long time, their stomach function will be in a weak state of "stealing leisure" for a long time, which may lead to the decline of digestive function. From this perspective, drinking porridge is not a matter of nourishing the stomach.
Then how to drink porridge is scientific?
In fact, the "moderate diet" in Huangdi Neijing has given us the answer, and we can drink porridge in moderation.
If you are sick and need a light diet, it is certainly possible to drink some digestible porridge. If you have the habit of eating porridge for breakfast, you can keep it, and it is better to have some dry food and snacks. If you have symptoms such as pantothenic acid and heartburn, or suffer from gastric ulcer, superficial gastritis and reflux esophagitis, then don't drink too much alcohol and often drink porridge. It is recommended to follow the doctor's advice.