Medical function of medicated porridge
prevent disease
The ancient people have used porridge to prevent diseases for a long time, and the usage is many, and the effect is also ideal. For example, in the Tang Dynasty, Sun Simiao cooked porridge with rice bran to prevent the recurrence of beriberi. Li Shizhen's carrot porridge in Ming Dynasty's Compendium of Materia Medica can be used to prevent hypertension. Litchi porridge is useful in Quanzhou materia medica, which can prevent bad breath. According to the book Dietotherapy, eating corn flour regularly can prevent cardiovascular diseases; Recently, coix seed has been used to cook porridge to prevent malignant tumors. In addition, people also have a good habit of using mung bean porridge to prevent heatstroke. The application of medicated porridge to prevent diseases not only has the function of drug prevention, but also can strengthen the body's resistance to diseases, which has the dual significance of "eliminating evil, stabilizing healthy qi and eliminating evil".
The application of medicated porridge to prevent diseases also has the advantage that Chinese and western medicines cannot be used alone. Because medicated porridge is made of rice and medicine, it is suitable for all ages in Xian Yi, and it is convenient to take, not limited by the course of treatment, and convenient to take for a long time, and it has no effect, so it is a rainy day in normal diet.
Can be used for adjuvant treatment of acute diseases.
In the treatment of some acute diseases, the curative effect is more ideal, such as taking appropriate medicated porridge. In ancient times, there were many medicinal porridge, which was a dietetic prescription specially used to treat acute diseases. For example, Khan black bean porridge in Taiping Shenghui Prescription in Song Dynasty is a kind of compound medicinal porridge for treating "apoplexy, typhoid fever and headache". Bamboo leaf green porridge in Shengji Zonglu is an acute surgical porridge prescription for treating "heat swelling of back carbuncle". Chen Yin porridge is a porridge prescription for treating acute infectious hepatitis. "Lao Lao Heng Yan" porridge cures drunken lying; Fairy porridge in common sense of dietotherapy is used for acute "four seasons epidemic" and so on. These medicated porridge are effective prescriptions for acute diseases. It can be used alone or as an auxiliary diet for treating acute diseases.
It is a good way for patients with chronic diseases to adjust themselves.
Some chronic diseases can't achieve the expected effect simply by relying on drugs. If you can cooperate with medicated porridge as an auxiliary diet therapy, and you can take it for a long time, you can achieve the goal of getting twice the result with half the effort and even get unexpected results.
Used for conditioning women after illness and postpartum.
People often encounter this situation in their lives, that is, patients don't know what to eat after recovery. For this problem, according to the experience of many old Chinese medicine practitioners, it is considered that it is safest to recuperate with rice porridge after illness. This is because, whether after illness or after delivery, the whole body is weak, the gastrointestinal tract is weak, and the digestion is reduced. Rice porridge is not only nutritious, but also easy to digest and absorb, which can supplement energy. If a certain amount of Chinese medicine is used to cook porridge, it will be more ideal for aftercare after illness or postpartum. For example, after high fever, whether it is a cold or a high fever, or in the late stage of epidemic cerebrospinal meningitis and Japanese encephalitis, because high fever hurts body fluids and vaginal fluid is insufficient, traditional Chinese medicine is often used to treat diseases by nourishing yin and clearing heat. Then, if you choose to eat raw reed root porridge and sugarcane porridge, it will have the effects of quenching thirst and clearing away heat and relieving summer heat. Isn't it killing two birds with one stone? For another example, when the high fever subsides after pneumonia, but you still feel thirsty and dry cough, it is also quite appropriate to eat some Radix Adenophorae porridge and Trichosanthes porridge, which can not only stop cough, but also nourish the lungs and help the disease recover as soon as possible. For another example, after giving birth, women are not only weak, but also have a physiological process of lactation and lochia. At this time, eating pig's trotters porridge or lettuce porridge can help suck milk, or taking motherwort porridge to nourish blood can promote the recovery of uterus.
Keep healthy and prolong life.
In the precious materials of medicinal porridge in China, most of them are nourishing and strong drugs, which are sweet in taste and flat in nature. These traditional Chinese medicines have good anti-aging effects and prolong life. Such as Chinese yam, medlar, Polygonum multiflorum Thunb, cistanche deserticola, etc. Some Chinese medicines are also beneficial to prevent the formation of senile diseases, such as hawthorn can prevent hyperlipidemia and hypertension, wax gourd can prevent obesity in the elderly, and Platycladus orientalis can prevent constipation in the elderly. Cooking porridge with these traditional Chinese medicines and rice, often taken, can really play a nourishing, anti-aging and longevity role. Just as Lu You, a patriotic poet in the Song Dynasty, said, "People all over the world are elderly, but they don't know that many years are in the present. I want to learn from the people and only eat porridge for the gods. "
Beauty and beauty
Medicinal porridge is not only used to prevent and treat diseases, but also has the function of beauty beauty. For example, Polygonum multiflorum porridge can treat white hair and alopecia; Lotus leaf porridge can prevent obesity; Duckweed porridge can prevent chloasma; Loquat Qingfei porridge can treat facial acne; Asparagus porridge has anti-aging and anti-wrinkle effects.
In a word, medicated porridge therapy can be used in all departments of women and children at home and abroad, and its application range is very wide. It can not only prevent diseases, but also cure diseases; It is suitable for both acute and chronic diseases. As long as you master it flexibly, choose it reasonably and insist on taking it, you will certainly get the ideal effect.