Traditional Chinese medicine believes that rice has the functions of invigorating the middle energizer, invigorating the spleen and stomach, nourishing essence and strengthening the mind, harmonizing the five internal organs, dredging the blood vessels, hearing and improving eyesight, relieving annoyance, quenching thirst and stopping diarrhea, and is the "first of the five grains".
Peanut is not only a highly nutritious food, but also a health medicine with high medicinal value. Peanut seeds, seed coats, seed shells and peanut oil can all be used as medicine. Traditional Chinese medicine believes that peanuts are sweet and flat, which can strengthen the spleen and stomach, moisten the lungs and eliminate phlegm, invigorate qi and stop bleeding, and can be used for spleen deficiency, emaciation, lack of food, dry cough and phlegm, and postpartum milk deficiency. There is also a folk saying that "raw peanuts nourish the stomach, boiled peanuts moisten the lungs, and fried peanuts protect the liver".
The effect of cooking porridge together is to remove heat and detoxify, nourish yin and invigorate qi, strengthen the spleen and moisten the lungs, which has a significant effect on people with weak constitution for a long time.