Spring is the season of growth of all things, the liver when the order, according to the theory of Chinese medicine, the liver is wood, the spleen is earth, earth and wood, i.e., the liver can be injured by the spleen, affecting the spleen's digestive function. And Chinese medicine believes that the five flavors into the five organs, and acid into the liver, sweet into the spleen, in view of this, the spring dietary regimen, it is appropriate to choose the sweet and warm products, avoid sour and astringent, mainly to tonify the spleen as the main, so, the following, recommend a few spring spleen congee.

Basic porridge for the spleen

Ingredients: lotus seed, poria, yam, Gorgon fruit, round-grained rice (brown rice), the amount of self-adjustment, delicious prevail. This is especially suitable for pediatric consumption.

If the spleen is heavy with dampness and heat, add barley; if the spleen is cold, add jujube and ginger; if the blood is deficient, add jujube and brown sugar; if the qi and blood is deficient after the disease, add angelica and codonopsis; if the yin is deficient, add lily of the valley and radix et Rhizoma Ginseng; if the diarrhea is serious, it can be as simple as yam, carrots, and rice can be used.

Practice:

(1) Poria, Gorgon fruit, Coix lacryma (Job's tears) washed, soaked in water for 30 minutes and then added to the round-grained rice with water to cook.

(2) yam crushed powder porridge hot to add, available salt, sesame oil seasoning, but also red and white sugar seasoning.

Peace and Spleen Porridge

Ingredients: fried red dates 6, Job's tear grains 30g, a small piece of yam, rice (round-grained rice) 50g. This peace and spleen porridge is calm in nature, nourishes the spleen, and improves resistance.

Practice:

(1) Job's tears, rice, wash, Job's tears with water in advance to soak more than 2 hours, rice in advance to soak half an hour, but also can not soak.

(2) Yam peeled and washed and cut into grains, soaked in salt water, can prevent discoloration.

(3) fried red dates in advance first break open, a moment in the porridge.

(4) just soak barley water do not waste, pour into the pot, then add water, boil the water into the barley, turn the fire to cook half an hour.

(5) half an hour later, put rice and fried jujube, and then cook to rice rotten when adding yam and then cook for 10 minutes. Cook porridge ` time is not too short, to boil out the rice oil, which is very nutritious.

Morning and evening spleen congee

Ingredients: 50 grams of round-grained rice, 10 jujubes, 20 grams of lotus seeds. The effect of this morning and evening stomach congee is to nourish the stomach and strengthen the spleen, but also to prevent and control iron deficiency anemia.

Practice:

(1) Lotus seeds softened with warm water, remove the core, polished polished round-grained rice, jujube washed.

(2) the three into the pot, add the right amount of water, the fire boiled, simmering into porridge.

(3) according to personal taste after seasoning morning and evening consumption.

Atractylodes macrocephala congee

Ingredients: atractylodes macrocephala, Radix et Rhizoma Ginseng, Poria, 1 money, 1 money, 3 jujubes, germ rice (or Job's Tears), the right amount. This Atractylodes macrocephala porridge can replenish qi and strengthen the spleen, and is suitable for the body that catches colds from time to time, which can enhance the immune system.

Directions:

(1) Add 4 bowls of water to the herbs and decoct into 2 bowls over a slow fire, remove the medicinal sweat.

(2) Add germ rice or barley to the boiled herbal juice and simmer to make porridge.

Carrot Potato Spleen Porridge

Ingredients: 50 grams of round-grained rice, 50 grams of carrots, 50 grams of potatoes (yellow skin), 30 grams of sugar. This carrot and potato porridge has the effect of strengthening the spleen and qi, moistening the intestines and laxatives, and can cure habitual constipation.

Practice:

(1) carrots, potatoes, washed, diced spare;

(2) round-grained rice washed, put in a pot, add the right amount of water to cook porridge;

(3) almost cooked when added to the carrots and potatoes diced cooked can be;

(4) add the right amount of sugar to taste, can be eaten.