Practice: Cook mung beans until half cooked, add lily, red dates and rice, and then cook them into porridge, once in the morning and once in the evening.

Efficacy: Lily clears the heart and calms the nerves, red dates nourish the stomach and strengthen the spleen, and mung beans clear away heat and relieve annoyance. Suitable for insomnia with palpitation, upset, hot flashes and spontaneous sweating in summer and menopause.

2 Polygala jujube porridge ingredients: Polygala 15g, fried Ziziphus jujuba seeds 10g, polished rice 75g.

Practice: Wash the japonica rice, put it into an appropriate amount of water pot, add the washed polygala tenuifolia and Ziziphus jujuba seeds, boil it with strong fire, and then cook it into porridge with low fire.

Efficacy: This porridge has the effects of calming the heart, calming the nerves, strengthening the brain and improving intelligence, and can prevent palpitation, insomnia and forgetfulness caused by blood deficiency in the elderly.

3 Quail and wolfberry porridge Ingredients: quail egg 10, medlar 15g, walnut kernel 15g.

Practice: quail eggs are steamed, shelled, soaked in medlar for a few minutes, walnut kernels are fried, and appropriate amount of rice is added to cook porridge.

Efficacy: This porridge has the effects of nourishing yin and blood, nourishing the heart and calming the nerves. It is suitable for insomnia with deficiency of both heart and spleen.

4 Gentian porridge raw materials: Gentian 10g, bamboo leaves 20g, japonica rice 10g.

Practice: First, decoct Gentiana and bamboo leaves in water, take juice instead of water and add japonica rice to cook porridge for breakfast.

Efficacy: in porridge, gentian clears liver and reduces fire, and bamboo leaves clear heart and relieve annoyance. It is suitable for insomnia, impatience and irritability, red eyes and bitter taste, yellow urine and constipation, and belongs to those with liver depression and excessive fire.