1, Chinese medicine believes that rice porridge, sweet and flat, can strengthen the spleen and nourish the stomach, promote fluid production and quench thirst. Sun Simiao, a medical scientist in the Tang Dynasty, said in Qian Jin Fang Zhi that japonica rice can nourish the stomach, replenish qi and grow muscles. There are also japonica rice in many recipes. The earliest method of taking Guizhi decoction in Han Dynasty was to eat a bowl of hot porridge after taking the medicine, and then sweat slightly after falling asleep to strengthen the medicine. The recipe of "White Tiger Decoction" for relieving high fever also adds a pinch of white rice, which is one of the health-preserving effects of white rice porridge: sweating and radiating white rice porridge is the first choice for babies to add complementary food because it is easy to digest and rich in nutrition. The second health care function of white rice porridge: warming stomach and strengthening spleen, clearing heat and removing accumulation.
2. In addition, white rice porridge also has a good effect on poor appetite and constipation caused by food accumulation, which can clear intestines and heat food accumulation. Eating white rice porridge in the morning and evening is most suitable for eating white rice porridge, and it is also quite time-sensitive. It is best to drink white rice porridge on an empty stomach in the morning. After getting up in the morning, a bowl of hot porridge can not only cheer up the stomach after a night's rest, but also not bring too much burden to the spleen and stomach. "Compendium of Materia Medica" said in "The Record of Porridge": "Eat a big bowl of porridge every day, and make it on an empty stomach. The tonic is not fine, but it is soft and greasy, and it complements the stomach. It is also the most wonderful way to eat.