Chinese medicine believes that nourishing yin in winter, cold winter and entering the body? Energy crisis? During the period, all physiological activities, energy consumption and basal metabolism of the human body need more heat energy to maintain. At this time, nourishing is a good time, and drinking porridge is one of the best ways.
Now it is winter, the climate is dry, people's activity is reduced, heat energy consumption is large, and immunity in the body is reduced, so many diseases such as stomach disease, asthma, chronic bronchitis, tuberculosis, cardiovascular and cerebrovascular diseases, diabetes, hypertension and so on are easy to occur or aggravate in this season. Therefore, health care is very important, and drinking porridge can get twice the result with half the effort. Here are several kinds of cold-proof health porridge.
■ Mutton porridge
Choose 200g of refined mutton, slice it, about 200g of japonica rice or glutinous rice, and ginger, onion, salt and other ingredients, and cook it into mutton porridge, which can be eaten in the morning and evening. Or use rice 100g, refined mutton 200g, ginseng 5g, astragalus root 30g, poria cocos 30g, five Chinese dates, two scallions and a little salt to cook porridge.
It has the effects of invigorating qi, nourishing kidney, warming spleen and protecting stomach.
■ Walnut porridge
Take 40 ~ 50g walnuts and mash them, and cook porridge with rice.
Regular eating can reduce the absorption of cholesterol in intestine, tonify kidney, consolidate essence, astringe lung and relieve asthma, and is very effective in treating nocturnal emission due to kidney deficiency, premature ejaculation, impotence, enuresis, tinnitus and vertigo.
■ Gouqi porridge
30 grams of medlar and 60 grams of rice. Cook the rice half-cooked, add Lycium barbarum, and cook it.
It is especially suitable for patients with dizziness, tinnitus, nocturnal emission, soreness of waist and knees, etc. Patients with hepatitis take wolfberry porridge, which has the good effect of protecting liver and promoting liver cell regeneration.
■ Chestnut porridge
Chestnut is a kind of hard-shelled fruit with high nutrition.
People often fry chestnuts or cook with meat. Empress dowager cixi loves to eat steamed buns made of chestnut noodles. Grind chestnut kernel into powder and cook it with japonica rice into porridge, especially in winter morning and evening.
This porridge can tonify kidney, strengthen tendons, strengthen spleen and nourish stomach.
■ leek porridge
Is leek called in the Pharmacopoeia? Yang Cao? , rich in nutrition, strong kidney and tonic. Take an appropriate amount of leek and rice, first boil the rice into porridge, then put the chopped leek into it and cook it for a while.
This porridge is suitable for cold back, weak body, sore waist and knees, and has the effects of warming the yang, tonifying the middle energizer and dredging collaterals.
■ Jujube porridge
The General Record of Shengji contains jujube 10, japonica rice 100g, and an appropriate amount of ice sugar juice. Put it in a pot and add an appropriate amount of water. First, boil it with strong fire, then move it to slow fire and boil it into porridge. Then add the ice sugar juice and stir it evenly to eat it.
This porridge strengthens the spleen and qi, produces blood and supplements blood. It is suitable for physical weakness, fear of cold, stomach cold anemia, stomach deficiency and anorexia.
■ Plum blossom porridge
Plum blossoms are flat, which can soothe the liver and regulate qi and stimulate appetite. Take 5 grams of Bai Meihua and 80 grams of japonica rice, first boil the japonica rice into porridge, then add Bai Meihua and boil for two or three minutes. You can eat a bowl for three or five days at a time.
People with loss of appetite have a good eating effect, while healthy people have more energy when eating.
■ Mulberry porridge
30 grams of mulberry (60 grams of fresh mulberry), 60 grams of glutinous rice, and appropriate amount of rock sugar. Wash the mulberry, cook it with glutinous rice, and add rock sugar after cooking.
The porridge can nourish liver yin, nourish blood and improve eyesight.
■ Cassia porridge
Stir-fried cassia seed10g (available in Chinese medicine shops), 60g of rice and a small amount of rock sugar. Firstly, cassia seed is boiled in water to get proper juice. Then use its juice and rice to cook together, and add rock sugar after porridge.
The porridge has the effects of clearing liver, improving eyesight and relaxing bowels. It has obvious effects on red eyes, photophobia and tearfulness, hypertension, hyperlipidemia, habitual constipation and other symptoms.
Experience of drinking porridge
Jia Daye, Hongmiao Community, Chaoyang District
Thanks to my wife's skillful hands, I drank dark plum longan porridge in summer to cool down my fire. In winter, my wife will cook mutton porridge, which can keep out the cold without being afraid of cholesterol. Neighbors also ask my wife for advice from time to time on how to cook porridge.
Duan Junyan, an employee of a cultural company in Haidian.
I love eating chestnut since I was a child, so my mother will change the way to make me happy. She will make it into dishes, such as chestnut braised pork, chestnut bean curd soup, and even have her own chestnut porridge in winter. Because I have stomach trouble again recently, she often prepares chestnut porridge for me. After a period of slow conditioning, the stomach will slowly stop hurting. What a pity for inherit the wind!