"Compendium of Materia Medica" says that eating a big bowl of porridge on an empty stomach in the morning 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 it can also 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 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 "the first food in the world is porridge". 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 don't drink, some people don't like to eat meat, but few people don't drink porridge. For many patients, the best diet is porridge. In Zhang Mu's Debate on Diet and Disease Adjustment in Qing Dynasty, he said: "Porridge can nourish and strengthen the body against all diseases. If it is suitable for getting sick, people who use fruits, vegetables, fish, meat and medicines can cook together. Drug bait is diet, and its effect is more magical and faster. " In the Ming Dynasty, Puji Fang also said: "Although rice is one thing, there are many kinds of porridge." ... porridge is the source of life, and diet can replace half medicine. "Chinese medicine believes that" sweat is the heart fluid ",sweating hurts the yin. Therefore, Zhang Zhongjing, a medical sage in the Han Dynasty, reminded patients that after taking Guizhi decoction, "drink more than one liter of hot porridge to help drugs", which 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 meat, delicious food and delicacies make many people face a serious dietary imbalance, and various "rich diseases" such as obesity, hypertension, heart disease and diabetes are rapidly devouring people's health. At this time, simple porridge will help people 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 United Nations standard for determining 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 worse, and their gastrointestinal digestive system is not good. At this time, drinking porridge 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 functions of food and medicine, health care level and humanistic color: Su Dongpo, a great writer in the Song Dynasty, wrote in a book: "Wu Yezi suggested eating rice porridge at night, and clouds can promote innovation and benefit the diaphragm and stomach." Eating porridge is fast and beautiful, and sleeping after eating porridge is also wonderful. After eating porridge, he was full of poems and wrote a beautiful sentence that has been passed down through the ages: "I don't know myself when I posted it backwards, but I know 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 for a cup of yam in autumn night makes a beautiful rice", and this "rice" is porridge. His poem Eat Porridge was highly praised by later doctors: "All the elders in the world didn't realize that it was a long time ago. I must learn from the people and only eat porridge from God. " Besides being rich in carbohydrates, porridge also contains inorganic salts and various minerals, amino acids, glucose, vitamins and plant proteins, and trace elements include 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. 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, get up early every day and eat a big bowl of porridge on an empty stomach. "If you are energetic, you will make it. It will be very soft and greasy, which is compatible with the stomach and intestines. This is the best diet." 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 it can also help sleep, which is 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 drinking porridge alone work? Can you quickly increase qi and blood? Chinese medicine says that if you don't increase your blood when you drink porridge, it's hard to make up for it. Ordinary food and many supplements that increase qi and blood, if the human body wants to get its nutrition, it must first put in some qi and blood to absorb it, but it is difficult for people with too weak qi and blood to digest it. Some experts say that porridge, especially yam and barley porridge, is a good medicine and food that can directly replenish qi and blood. It's deep winter, and the cold is getting heavier and heavier. From the perspective of traditional Chinese medicine, staying up late in winter is the most harmful to yin, and "insomnia" is easy to cause gastrointestinal dysfunction. Therefore, it is suggested that people who work at night come to a bowl of hot porridge in the middle of the night, which will help to drive away cold, replenish yin and promote fluid production, promote fluid production and strengthen the spleen. 3 Excellent carrier of nutritious food The porridge cooked by "family members" of rice has high nutritional value and has become an excellent carrier of other nutritious foods. When many foods and herbs are mixed with porridge, they become intimate and warm, and the 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 and nicotinic acid, and have different curative effects-rice porridge is sweet, which can strengthen the spleen and stomach, quench thirst, strengthen the five internal organs and 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 ... Of course, the first choice for health porridge is Laba porridge, which is made of glutinous rice, red beans, longan, dates, peanuts, ginkgo, pine nuts and other dried fruits and rice. Eating it in the twelfth lunar month is nutritious, delicious and warm as spring. 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, with various other auxiliary materials with medicinal value, the treatment method of "treating diseases with medicine and strengthening the body resistance with porridge" can be achieved: 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 with poor digestion and who want to lose weight. Beef and mutton can quickly make the body generate heat, which is called the excellent meat for nourishing in winter. 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; Oatmeal lowers blood lipid 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 porridge can often read "Healthy Porridge Song"-"If you don't suffer from insomnia, add white lotus to porridge to make your skin better, rice porridge to make jujube short of breath and weak, add yam to porridge to treat platelets, peanut-coated porridge to make you feel guilty, longan stewed rice porridge to treat bad breath, litchi porridge to remove high fever, and add reed root to porridge to make you feel dizzy. carrot porridge Ling ensures good liver function and medlar. Rice sugar porridge drank gastrointestinal diarrhea, walnut rice porridge stewed dizziness and sweating, glutinous rice porridge supplemented the gas, lotus root porridge is very suitable for preventing heatstroke in summer, lotus leaf should be cooked with porridge to keep eyes open, celery should be added to porridge. " 4 Boiled rice oil instead of ginseng soup. Yuan Mei, a gourmet in the Qing Dynasty, put forward the standard of porridge cooking in "Food List with the Garden": "If you see water, you can't see rice, and if you don't see rice, you can't see water, it's not porridge. It is necessary to make rice and water blend together, soft and greasy, and then it is called porridge. " Nutrition experts suggest that rice should be soaked in clear 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 mixing 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 smell. Here is a trick: put a small spoon at the bottom of the pot and cook it with porridge. When the water boils, the small spoon will also be driven to prevent it from sticking to the bottom and burning. And the "oil" coming out of porridge has a nourishing effect. 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, the strongest nourishing force and the role of tonic. According to Compendium of Materia Medica, rice oil "can nourish yin and strengthen the body, nourish the 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, when treating patients who were extremely weak, ginseng soup was often used to supplement their vitality. But some poor families have no money to buy ginseng, so they cook 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 slowly cook rice porridge with low fire, without adding other ingredients in the middle. Wait patiently until the porridge boils for a while, and the top layer will float with thick ointment-like porridge foam. Carefully left out with a spoon, it is rice oil, which is also called porridge oil by ordinary 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 the rice oil stored for too long will have adverse effects on ulcers. 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 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 enters the kidney meridian, and if a little rice oil is added, "medicine" can be introduced into the kidney meridian to enhance its efficacy. It is said that salted rice oil also has an aphrodisiac effect and treats "male infertility".