2, the role of white porridge: Chinese medicine that rice taste sweetness and flatness, with the benefit of essence and strong will, and the five organs, through the bloodstream, bright eyes and ears to stop the annoyance, thirst, diarrhea, known as "the first of the five grains". Rice, into the spleen, stomach, lungs, has a tonic, spleen and stomach, nourishing Yin and lung, in addition to the role of thirst. Ancient health practitioners also advocate "morning food porridge" to generate fluid, therefore, due to lung yin deficiency due to cough, constipation patients can take morning and evening porridge with rice. Often drink some rice porridge to help the development of fluid, can to a certain extent to alleviate dry skin and other discomforts. If you add some pears when cooking porridge, the effect of Chinese medicine is better.