The Chinese medicine often fall into two categories of dryness: one is "warm and dry", mostly seen in early fall. One is cold and dry, mostly seen in late fall.
The clinical manifestations of cold dryness are headache, body heat, chills without sweating, nasal congestion, similar to feeling cold. In contrast, cold dryness has the phenomenon of dryness of fluid, such as dry mouth, dry cough, chest tightness, unfavorable breathing, pain in the two dystocia, dry skin, and thin white tongue coating. It is the cold dryness of the lung cold dry, fluid depletion caused by cold dry symptoms.
Autumn, to a bowl of hot lotus seed lily maitake yam porridge, relieve dryness, keep healthy
For autumn dryness, Chinese medicine, in addition to identification and treatment, but also advocate food therapy. National Chinese medicine experts inheritance studio instructor, national famous Chinese medicine Cui Gongjian here to recommend a weight loss porridge - lotus seed lily maitake yam porridge, containing lily 30g, maitake 15g, lotus seed 30g, yam 30g, rock sugar 10g, round-grained rice appropriate amount of four kinds of Chinese herbs.
The preparation method of Lotus Seed Lily Maitake Yam Porridge is not complicated. Take the medicine according to the recipe above. The dried product needs to be warm, soaked, and then increased or decreased according to personal taste. Prepared lotus seeds, lily, maitake and yam are washed separately, put into a pot, add the right amount of water, rock sugar and glutinous rice, and boil with martial arts fire; add a little water and simmer for about 1 hour.
Lily is the main medicine, cold in nature, sweet and slightly bitter in taste, with the effect of nourishing yin and moistening the lungs, clearing the heart and tranquilizing the mind. Clinically, lily is often used to treat prolonged cough in yin deficiency, blood in phlegm, heart palpitations, insomnia and dreaminess, and trance.
Maidong is a tuberous root, slightly cold in nature, slightly fragrant, sweet and bitter in taste, with the effect of nourishing yin, moistening the lung and clearing the heart. Clinically, maitong is often used to treat dry and dry cough of the lung, deficiency cough, thirst due to injury of fluid, insomnia, internal heat and thirst, constipation due to dryness of intestines, and diphtheria.
Lotus seed is the dried and matured seed of the plant lotus, which is sweet, flat and astringent. It belongs to the spleen, kidney and heart meridians, and has the functions of strengthening the spleen to stop diarrhea, tonifying the kidney and fixing the essence, nourishing the heart and tranquilizing the mind. Clinical use of lotus seed is commonly used to treat chronic diarrhea of spleen deficiency, spermatorrhea, palpitations, insomnia and other chronic diarrhea.
Jiaozuo, Henan, abundant yam, commonly known as "yam". Yam is flat and sweet, belonging to the spleen, lungs, kidney meridian, with the spleen and stomach, the birth of a good lung, kidney astringent effect. Clinical use of yam to treat spleen deficiency, chronic diarrhea, lung deficiency, cough, kidney deficiency, spermatorrhea, dysuria, urinary frequency, thirst and other deficiency heat. Rock sugar is sweet and flat, can strengthen the spleen and stomach, moisten the lungs and stop coughing.
Japonica rice warms the stomach, benefits the qi and stops diarrhea, and is mainly used for irritability, thirst, red diarrhea, dryness, summer fever, fever, etc.. Cui Gong reminded that both Zhongbai and Maidong have the effect of nourishing Yin and moistening the lungs, generating fluids and clearing the heart. Together with lotus seed, yam and rock sugar, they can nourish the four viscera, help the body's positive qi and eliminate external evils. If you feel cold or dry eyes, you can add goji berries, jujube; if the skin is dry and itchy or a serious dry cough, you can add an autumn pear, wash and remove the core, add the right amount of honey; if diabetic patients use it, don't add rock sugar, and should not be served more.