The main ingredient of tonic porridge is rice, and its ingredients are rock sugar, white sugar, brown sugar, honey, white onion, ginger, salt and so on. In the selection of ingredients should be suitable for the patient's taste, but also according to the nature of the disease to target the selection. The role of several commonly used ingredients are summarized below: (1) rock sugar. Decoction of white sugar into ice crystals. It is flat in nature and functions to replenish the middle and benefit the qi, strengthen the stomach and moisten the lungs. Therefore, a lot of medicinal porridge can be used in rock sugar. (2) White sugar. Brown sugar is washed sugar, centrifugation, honey and other processes, remove molasses and impurities, refined by purification. From the nutritional value of white sugar is not as good as brown sugar, but white sugar is cold, its moistening the lungs and the power of the body is even better than brown sugar. (3) Brown sugar. Contains brown material "molasses" and Ⅱ ten chlorophyll, lutein, carotene and iron. Chinese medicine theory, brown sugar is warm, with beneficial qi, warm, food effects, and has the role of pain relief. Therefore, brown sugar as a porridge tonic seasoning, mostly used in the treatment of cold diseases in the medicinal porridge. (4) honey. The nature of flat, with moistening dryness, tonic, detoxification, pain, intestinal dryness constipation, lung dryness cough, stomach and epigastric pain has a good therapeutic effect. The main components of honey are fructose and glucose, but also contains a small amount of sucrose, dextrin, maltose, a variety of vitamins and a variety of trace elements, comprehensive and rich in nutrition. Where the frail patients serving medicinal porridge, can be used to flavor, but phlegm and dampness, full of plumpness and loose stools should not be used. (5) green onion. Spicy and warm, with sweating, warming effect, as an ingredient for Yang-supplementing type of congee. (6) ginger. Spicy and warm, is a commonly used warm stomach, vomiting, detoxification, dispersal of cold seasoning, where used for cold evidence of medicinal porridge, can be used ginger flavor, but hot diseases generally should not be selected. (7) salt. Its main component is sodium chloride, also contains a small amount of potassium, magnesium, calcium and other substances. According to Chinese medicine theory, salt taste into, "salty can enter the kidney", so it can be used to tonify the kidney medicinal porridge, such as goat bone porridge, Cistanches lamb porridge, goat kidney porridge with wolfberry, etc., which can be seasoned, but also can be used as "lead to menstruation". But nephritis patients should determine the amount of salt according to the condition. In short, the choice of porridge ingredients is related to both the effect of treatment, but also related to whether the patient can be happy to serve for a long time. Therefore, when cooking should pay attention to the choice. Extended reading liver for the officer of the general, the overall health of the whole situation of Qingming season how to maintain health Chinese medicine meal characteristics