Gruel, anciently known as thick congee, rice, elixir, commonly known as thin rice, is the right amount of rice and drugs with cooking, and then add certain medicinal ingredients, that is, into a therapeutic role of the medicinal porridge.

Medicinal porridge medical role

Prevention of disease

Prevention of disease with medicinal porridge, the ancients have long been practiced, the use of many, the effect is ideal. For example, the Tang Dynasty Sun Simiao in the "Thousand Golden Wings" contains rice bran porridge to prevent the recurrence of foot fungus; Ming Dynasty Li Shizhen in the "Materia Medica" in the carrot porridge, can be used to prevent high blood pressure; "Quanzhou Materia Medica" in the use of lychee porridge to prevent halitosis; "food therapy" book, often eat cornstarch to prevent cardiovascular disease; recently there are also coix lacryma to porridge to prevent malignant tumors. In addition, there is still a good habit of using mung bean porridge to prevent heat stroke. Application of medicinal porridge to prevent diseases, both contain the effect of drug prevention, at the same time, but also play a role in supporting the positive energy, enhance the body's resistance to disease, with: "dispel the evil and positive, help the positive to dispel the evil," the double significance.

The application of medicinal porridge to prevent diseases also has the advantages which are not possible with the use of Chinese and Western medicines alone. Because the congee is a thin porridge made of rice and medicine, young and old, easy to eat, not subject to the limitations of the course of treatment, but also easy to eat for a long time, and no payment effect, and the pre-nuisance in the ordinary diet.

Can be used as an adjunctive treatment of acute diseases

In the treatment of certain acute diseases, such as with the consumption of appropriate medicinal porridge, the efficacy is more ideal. In ancient times, there are a lot of medicinal porridge, is specifically for the treatment of acute diseases of the therapeutic formula. For example, the Song "Taiping Sheng Hui Fang" in the sweating black bean porridge, is the treatment of "stroke, typhoid fever, headache" of the medicine porridge large compound formula; "General Records of the Shengji" in the bamboo leaf porridge, the treatment of "back of the hair carbuncle, all the heat and poisonous swellings" acute surgical porridge; "porridge spectrum" Yin Chen porridge is the "treatment of yellow disease", "the treatment of yellow disease". Used for "treatment of yellow disease" specializing in acute infectious hepatitis porridge formula; "Lao Lao HengYin" in the Hovenia dulcis porridge treatment of alcoholism and drunkenness; "Food for Disease" in the fairy porridge used for acute "four times the epidemic of gas epidemic" and so on. These medicinal porridges are all effective in treating acute illnesses. Can be used alone, but also as an adjunct to the treatment of acute diseases of food therapy.

It is a good way for chronic patients to recuperate themselves

Some chronic diseases rely solely on medicines, but also can not receive the expected results. If you can cooperate with the porridge as an auxiliary dietary therapy, and can adhere to long-term food, slowly self-regulation, can achieve the purpose of half the medicine, and even receive unexpected results.

Used for post-disease and post-partum conditioning

People often encounter this situation in their lives, that is, patients do not know what to eat after the disease is more appropriate. For this problem, according to the experience of many old Chinese medicine practitioners, it is considered the most appropriate to use rice porridge after illness. This is because no matter after the disease or after the birth of a woman, the whole body function decreases, the stomach and intestines are weak, and the digestive power decreases. Rice porridge is not only rich in nutrients, but also very easy to digest and absorb, and can replenish energy. If with certain traditional Chinese medicine porridge, as a post-sickness or postpartum conditioning, it is even more ideal. For example, after high fever disease, whether it is cold fever, or brain flu, B brain late, due to high fever injury, Yin fluid insufficient, so Chinese medicine commonly used to nourish Yin and clear the heat of traditional Chinese medicine in order to good after the disease. Then, such as the use of raw reeds porridge, sugar cane porridge, etc., with the production of flu, stop drinking, clearing the heat, is not two birds with one stone. Another example is pneumonia after the fever is gone, but still feel thirsty, dry cough, eat some sand ginseng porridge, smallpox pollen porridge, but also quite suitable, both cough, but also to nourish the lungs, is conducive to the disease as soon as possible to recover. Again, such as women after the birth, not only weak, there is a period of through the milk, discharge of the physiological process, then eat some pig's trotters porridge or lettuce seed porridge can help milk, or take motherwort juice porridge to nourish the blood, can promote the recovery of the uterus.

Nurturing and prolonging life

In our valuable medicinal porridge data, the vast majority of the selection of the taste of sweetness and flatness of the nourishing and strong medicine. These herbs have good anti-aging and anti-aging, prolonging life. For example, Chinese yam, wolfberry, Shouwu, Cistanche, etc.. Some Chinese medicine to prevent the formation of geriatrics is also beneficial, such as hawthorn can prevent hyperlipidemia, hypertension, winter melon to prevent obesity in old age, cypress seed kernel to prevent constipation in the elderly, etc., the use of these Chinese medicines with rice porridge, often served, can indeed play a complementary anti-aging, prolonging the effect of longevity. As the Song dynasty patriotic poet Lu You poem cloud: "the world all learn long years, do not realize the long years in the present. I got Wanqiu easy method, will only eat porridge to the immortals."

Beauty

Medicinal porridge is not only used to prevent and cure diseases, but also has the role of beauty, such as Shouwu porridge can be treated for white hair loss; lotus leaf porridge can be prevented and controlled obesity; puffin porridge can be prevented and treated chloasma; loquat clear lung porridge can be used to treat facial acne; asparagus porridge has the effect of anti-ageing and anti-wrinkle.

In short, porridge therapy can be used for internal and external gynecology and pediatrics, a wide range of adaptations. Both can prevent disease, but also can cure disease; both for acute diseases, but also applicable to chronic diseases. As long as the flexible grasp, reasonable selection, adhere to the service, will receive the desired effect.