"Compendium of Materia Medica" says that getting up early and eating a big bowl of porridge on an empty stomach "is the best way to eat when you are full of energy, and it is not fine, but also very soft and greasy, which is compatible with your stomach." Drinking porridge at night can also nourish the stomach, but it will not lead to obesity and help sleep. Some people may disagree: porridge is just ordinary rice with water or diced meat. What special tonic can it have? In fact, a bowl of ordinary rice, after careful cooking, will taste sweet, moisten the throat and be easy to eat. It can not only nourish the spleen and stomach, increase appetite, but also be easy to digest and replenish the nutrients needed by the body in time. Drinking porridge often has the effect of keeping healthy and prolonging life. The ancients called it "the same diet" and "porridge is the best in the world". 1 porridge, the best slimming porridge, has surpassed any nation in the world in China. From ancient times to now, regardless of men, women and children, regardless of spring, summer, autumn and winter, regardless of physical fitness, some people do not drink, some people do not like to eat meat, but few people do not drink porridge. For many patients, the best diet is porridge. Zhang Mu's Debate on Diet and Disease Adjustment in Qing Dynasty said: "Porridge can nourish and all diseases can strengthen the body. If it is suitable for illness, people who use fruits, vegetables, fish, meat and medicine can cook together. But diet is a drug bait, and its effect is even more amazing and faster. " In the Ming Dynasty, Puji Fang also said: "Although rice is one thing, there are many kinds of porridge ... Treating porridge is the source of life, and diet can replace half medicine." Chinese medicine believes that "sweat is the heart fluid", and sweating hurts yin. Therefore, Zhang Zhongjing, a medical sage in the Han Dynasty, reminded patients that after taking Guizhi decoction, "drinking more than one liter of hot porridge to help the medicine" can also reduce the damage of sweating to human vaginal fluid, achieve the purpose of treating diseases and play a role in strengthening the body. In addition, some drugs are very irritating to the stomach, and drinking porridge can protect the gastric mucosa. However, fish and delicacies make many people face a serious dietary imbalance, and various "diseases of wealth" such as obesity, hypertension, heart disease and diabetes are rapidly devouring people's health. At this time, simple porridge helps people to return to nature and keep healthy-eating porridge can reduce calorie intake, strengthen the spleen and nourish the stomach, and reduce the occurrence of "rich diseases". According to reports, the standard for the United Nations to identify longevity areas is that there are more than 75 centenarians per million people. According to reports, among the population of 1.45 million in Rugao City, Jiangsu Province, there are 1.72 centenarians and more than 4,000 people over 90 years old. Experts said that this is closely related to the unique eating habits of the local "two porridge and one meal". At present, the weather is cold, many people have caught a cold, their appetite is getting worse, and their gastrointestinal digestive system is not good. Drinking porridge at this time can promote absorption. Dropping hot porridge into the abdomen also helps to sweat and dissipate heat, dispel wind and cold, and promote the cure of colds. "The first tonic in the world" combines the function of taking medicine, as well as the level of health care and humanistic color: Su Dongpo, a writer in the Song Dynasty, wrote in a book that "Wu advised rice porridge to be eaten at night, and the cloud can bring forth the new and benefit the diaphragm and stomach. Porridge is fast and beautiful, and it is wonderful to sleep after drinking porridge. " After eating porridge, he was full of poetry and painting, and wrote a beautiful sentence that has been passed down through the ages: "I don't know myself when I am upside down, but I know that there is a real taste in the world." Lu You, a well-versed and healthy poet, lived to the age of 85. There is a poem in his "Jiannan Poetry Draft" that praises: "Hunger in autumn night makes a cup of yam into qiongmi", and "mi" is porridge. His poem "Eating Porridge" is highly praised by later doctors: "The predecessors in the world didn't realize that it was a long time ago. I want to learn from the people and only eat porridge for the gods. " In addition to rich carbohydrates, porridge also contains inorganic salts and various minerals, amino acids, glucose, vitamins and plant proteins, and trace elements such as phosphorus, iron, calcium and zinc. Many nutrients are not provided by milk. Many mothers will find that babies who often eat all kinds of rice porridge are much stronger than those who only eat milk. The beauty of porridge is that it combines rice, vegetables and soup-it not only has the function of satiety, but also has the delicious taste of adding vegetables and the nutritional appetizer of hot soup. The starch in porridge is fully combined with water, which not only provides heat energy, but also contains a lot of water and is easy to digest. Suitable for breakfast and dinner. Li Shizhen said in Compendium of Materia Medica that getting up early every day and eating a bowl of porridge on an empty stomach "is the best way to eat it when you are energetic, and it is very soft and greasy, which is consistent with the stomach". Drinking porridge at night can also nourish the stomach, but it will not increase the burden on the digestive system and will not lead to obesity. Some people say that it can also help sleep, similar to drinking milk. Therefore, some Chinese medicine practitioners often give the same advice to frail old people, infants with congenital deficiency and seriously ill patients, that is, drink porridge. Some people may ask: Can you just drink porridge? Can you quickly increase qi and blood? Chinese medicine says that if you don't increase your qi and blood when you drink porridge, it is difficult to make it up. Ordinary food and many supplements that increase qi and blood, if the human body wants to obtain its nutrition, it must first put in some qi and blood to absorb it, which is difficult for people with too weak qi and blood to digest. Some experts say that porridge, especially yam and barley porridge, is a good medicine and food for directly replenishing qi and blood. It's deep winter, and the cold is getting heavier and heavier. From the perspective of Chinese medicine, staying up late in winter is the most harmful to yin, and "insomnia" is easy to cause gastrointestinal disorders. Therefore, it is recommended that people who work at night have a bowl of hot porridge in the middle of the night, which will help to drive away cold, tonify yin and promote fluid production and strengthen the spleen. 3 Excellent carrier of nutritious food Rice porridge cooked by "family members" has high nutritional value and has become an excellent carrier of other nutritious foods. When a lot of food and medicinal materials are mixed in porridge, it becomes warm and intimate, and nutrition is integrated into porridge soup, which is beneficial to digestion and absorption. For example, our commonly used rice, millet or glutinous rice are mostly rich in trace elements such as protein, fat, calcium, phosphorus, iron, carotene, thiamine, riboflavin, nicotinic acid, etc. At the same time, they have different curative effects-rice porridge is sweet, which can nourish the spleen and stomach, quench thirst, strengthen the five internal organs, strengthen bones and muscles, and is most beneficial in winter; Millet porridge has certain curative effect on spleen and stomach deficiency and cold, deficiency of middle qi and insomnia. Coix seed porridge can prevent cancer and stop diarrhea; Corn porridge is very appetizing ... the first choice for health porridge is of course Laba porridge, which is made of glutinous rice, red beans, longan, jujube, peanuts, ginkgo, pine nuts and other dried fruits and rice. Eating in the twelfth lunar month is nutritious, delicious and warm. The advantage of Laba porridge is that it is rich in all kinds of beans and can quickly supplement all kinds of nutrients needed by the human body. In the process of cooking porridge, combined with various other auxiliary materials with medicinal value, it can play a therapeutic method of "treating diseases with medicine and strengthening the body resistance with porridge": for example, the combination of sweet potato and millet is a classic, and the cooked porridge is sweet and delicious, which is a good choice for people who have poor digestion and want to lose weight. Beef and mutton can quickly make the body generate heat, which is called a good product for winter nourishment. The cooked porridge has high nutritional value and unique taste, which can replenish the spleen and stomach and strengthen the bones and muscles. In addition, carrot porridge prevents hypertension; Ginger porridge prevents chronic tracheitis; Mung bean porridge to prevent heatstroke; Wild vegetable porridge increases vitamins and regulates physiological functions; Oats reduce blood fat and blood pressure; Wheat porridge nourishes the heart and eliminates troubles; Sesame porridge is good for essence and yin; Radish porridge digestion and phlegm; Walnut porridge nourishes yin and solidifies essence; Poria porridge strengthens the spleen and nourishes the stomach; Jujube porridge can benefit qi and nourish yin ... People who love to drink porridge can often read "Health Porridge Song"-"If you don't suffer from insomnia, add white lotus to porridge to make your skin better, add red dates to rice porridge to make you short of breath and weak, add yam to porridge to cure platelets, peanut porridge to make you feel guilty, longan to cook rice porridge to cure bad breath, litchi porridge to remove high fever, add reed root to porridge to make you dizzy, and carrot porridge to add ling to ensure good liver function and medlar. Rice sugar porridge drinks gastrointestinal diarrhea, walnut rice porridge stews dizziness and sweating, glutinous rice constipation porridge supplements middle qi, lotus root porridge is very suitable for summer heatstroke prevention, lotus leaf porridge is eye-catching, and celery is added to porridge. " 4 Boiled rice oil instead of ginseng soup. Yuan Mei, a gourmet in Qing Dynasty, put forward the standard of porridge cooking in "Eating List with the Garden": "If you see water, you will not see rice, and if you don't see rice, you will not see water, which is not porridge. It is called porridge to make rice and water blend together, soft and greasy. " Nutrition experts suggest that rice should be soaked in water for 5-6 hours before cooking porridge. After adding water and rice, at least one third of the space should be left in the pot to facilitate the turbulent flow of water and avoid overflowing when boiling. At the same time, water should be added at one time to realize the blending of rice and water. Pay attention to stirring when cooking, which can avoid sticking to the pot and thicken the porridge. If it sticks to the bottom, don't scrape the bottom of the pot with a spoon, or it will produce a sticky taste. Here's a trick: put a small spoon at the bottom of the pot and cook it with porridge. When the water boils, the spoon is also driven to prevent it from sticking to the bottom and burning. And the "oil" from the porridge is more refreshing. Traditional Chinese medicine believes that after rice porridge is boiled, most nutrients enter rice soup, among which rice oil floating on it is the most nutritious, the essence of porridge, with strong nourishing power and a tonic effect. According to Compendium of Materia Medica, rice oil "can nourish yin, strengthen muscles and tendons, nourish five internal organs, and know everything", and "black and thin people eat it, and it will be fat and white for a hundred days". Therefore, in ancient times, ginseng soup was often used to replenish vitality when treating patients who were extremely weak. But some poor families have no money to buy ginseng, so they cook it with rice oil instead of ginseng soup, and the effect is good. It is not difficult to cook high-quality rice oil. Choose an extremely clean and oil-free pot, and cook rice porridge slowly with low heat, without adding other ingredients in the middle. Wait patiently until the porridge boils for a while, and the top layer will float thick ointment porridge foam. Skim it carefully with a spoon. It is rice oil, which is also called porridge oil among the people. It should be noted that the rice oil of high-quality new rice has a protective effect on the stomach and is suitable for patients with chronic gastritis and gastric ulcer, but it will have adverse effects of ulcer if it is stored for too long. Generally speaking, rice oil should be eaten on an empty stomach. Maternal and chronic gastroenteritis patients often have different degrees of deficiency of vitality. Eating rice oil can replenish vitality, increase physical strength and promote rehabilitation. Old people often eat rice oil, which can tonify kidney and essence and prolong life. In addition, Chinese medicine believes that salt entering the kidney meridian, if a little rice oil is added, can guide the "medicine" into the kidney meridian and enhance the curative effect. It is said that salt rice oil also has an aphrodisiac effect and treats "male infertility".