Yu Qian porridge clears away heat and calms the nerves. Elm is good at invigorating spleen and calming nerves. It is recorded in the pharmaceutical work "Classic, History, Evidence-based Materia Medica" in the Song Dynasty: "When you are born, you will sleep more if you use it as thick soup." Modern research has found that elm contains a lot of nicotinic acid, ascorbic acid and inorganic salts, among which calcium and phosphorus are rich, which can be used as an auxiliary treatment for neurasthenia and insomnia.
Practice: add water to rice or millet to cook porridge. When the rice is cooked, add the washed elm, continue to cook for 5-8 minutes, and add appropriate seasoning to taste.
Steam elm roots to strengthen the stomach and spleen. Before fish, it is suitable for abdominal distension, loose stool, loss of appetite, weakness of limbs and other symptoms caused by spleen-stomach qi deficiency and weak spleen transport, which is helpful to promote gastric acid secretion and food digestion, and can treat dyspepsia.
Extended data:
Elm is the samara of elm. Shaped like money but small, the color is a string of white. It is named because it is round and as thin as a coin. Because it is the homonym of "surplus money", there is a saying that you can have "surplus money" after eating the money. Although the roots of elm trees are unremarkable, they are rich in nutrition, not only delicious, but also can prevent diseases and protect health. In famine years, it is a life-saving food.
Produced in China, distributed in cold temperate zone, temperate zone and subtropical zone, it is edible, medicinal and green.
References:
People's Network-Yu Qian Jianpi Xiaoshi Treating Insomnia