First, prevention before illness.
Practice has proved that regular consumption of medicated porridge can play a role in preventing diseases. In the Tang Dynasty, Sun Simiao's "Qianjin Fang Yi" contained rice bran to cook porridge to prevent the recurrence of beriberi; In Ji Fang, barley porridge is used to prevent diarrhea due to spleen deficiency and beriberi edema. Modern research shows that regular consumption can also prevent tumors. The application of medicinal porridge to prevent diseases not only includes drug prevention, but also plays a role in helping healthy qi and enhancing disease resistance, which is the dual significance of "eliminating evil and calming healthy qi".
Second, the auxiliary treatment of acute diseases
In the process of treating some acute diseases, if combined with appropriate medicated porridge, the curative effect is more ideal. There are many medicated porridge in the past dynasties, which is a special diet prescription for treating acute diseases, such as: Zhuyeqing porridge in Shengji Zonglu, which is very suitable for patients with acute surgical infectious diseases; The "Hovenia dulcis Thunb porridge" in "Old Heng Yan" is used to treat drunkenness, which is very suitable for patients who drink too much. "Chen Yin porridge" in "Porridge Spectrum" is used to treat jaundice, which is very suitable for patients with acute infectious hepatitis. These medicated porridge can be used alone or as an auxiliary diet to treat acute diseases.
Third, aftercare after illness and postpartum.
In the Qing Dynasty, Wang Mengying's Resting Diet Spectrum mentioned that "porridge is most suitable for postpartum patients". This means that patients in the recovery period or postpartum, systemic dysfunction, gastrointestinal weakness, decreased digestion, which is the appropriate use of rice porridge conditioning. Rice porridge is not only nutritious, but also easy to digest and absorb, which can supplement energy. If syndrome differentiation is combined with traditional Chinese medicine to cook porridge, it will be more conducive to correcting the weakness of yin and yang, qi and blood of the body and making it recover as soon as possible. For those with yin deficiency after illness, sugarcane porridge, asparagus porridge and rehmannia porridge can be used; People with blood deficiency after illness can use Polygonum multiflorum porridge and Angelica porridge; People with yang deficiency after illness can use mutton porridge. 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.
Fourth, the daily aftercare of patients with chronic diseases.
Because of the long course of some chronic diseases, patients simply rely on drug treatment, which often fails to achieve the expected results. If combined with medicinal porridge as an auxiliary means, long-term use can get twice the result with half the effort. For example, patients with hypertension can eat cassia seed porridge, celery porridge, mugwort porridge and hawthorn porridge for a long time; Diabetic patients can take corn porridge, kudzuvine root porridge and yam porridge for a long time.
Five, prolong life
When people reach old age, the true qi is increasingly exhausted, various physiological functions are obviously declining, digestive enzymes in gastrointestinal tract are gradually reduced, teeth of the elderly are loose and fall off, chewing is difficult, and digestion and absorption ability is greatly reduced. Therefore, once the vast majority of elderly people get sick, they often present various "deficiency diseases". At this time, if we can reasonably choose some medicated porridge and take it regularly, it can really play a role in tonifying, anti-aging and prolonging life. As Chen Xiuyuan, a physician in the Qing Dynasty, said in his reading of Shennong Materia Medica: "All top-grade medicines should be taken for a long time, from life to year, with the help of people who help the valley to test their life." That is to say, top-grade Chinese medicines with nourishing effects such as Radix Astragali, Radix Ginseng and Rhizoma Dioscoreae are often eaten together with rice grains, which can make people healthy and live longer.