It's just a matter of preference. Some people like flour, others don't. Flour is just to increase the consistency of porridge, so it should be more delicious.

"Drinking porridge to nourish the stomach" is not suitable for everyone, especially patients with gastroesophageal reflux gastropathy are prone to acid reflux and heartburn. Drinking porridge is "worse". Porridge is a liquid, which easily aggravates gastroesophageal reflux. You should eat semi-liquid or solid food.

The role of porridge in nourishing the stomach is limited, which can reduce the burden of grinding food in the stomach at most, but can not directly treat stomach diseases, nor can it eradicate the culprit leading to stomach diseases. Stomach diseases mostly rely on drinking porridge to play the role of psychological comfort. The rational approach is to carry out targeted treatment after reasonable examination, make clear what the specific situation of "stomach trouble" is and what caused it, and then treat it symptomatically according to the specific situation.

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China's porridge was mainly used for food 4000 years ago, and was first used as medicine 2500 years ago. The Biography of Historical Records of Bian Que and Cang Gong records that Chunyu Kun, a famous doctor in the Western Han Dynasty, treated Wang Qi's disease with "Hodge porridge"; Zhang Zhongjing, a medical sage in the Han Dynasty, wrote in Treatise on Febrile Diseases: Taking Guizhi Decoction for a period of time and drinking a liter of hot porridge to help medicine are powerful examples.

In the Middle Ages, the function of porridge was to highly integrate "edible" and "medicinal" and enter the level of "health preservation" with humanistic color.

Su Dongpo wrote a book in the Song Dynasty, saying, "When you are hungry at night, Wu advised you to eat rice porridge, which can bring forth the old and bring forth the new and benefit your stomach." . Porridge is fast and beautiful. It's wonderful to have a sleep after eating porridge. Lu You, a famous poet in the Southern Song Dynasty, also strongly recommended eating porridge for health preservation, believing that it could prolong life. He once wrote a poem "Eat porridge": "Everyone in the world is an old man, but I didn't realize that at present I want to learn from the people and only eat porridge from the gods." As a result, the world's understanding of porridge has risen to a new height.