The concept of "food supplement is better than medicine supplement" is being accepted by more and more people. People are starting to consume various medicinal porridges and crazily supplement themselves. However, they are unaware that supplementing should also vary from person to person, and different constitutions require different supplements.
(1) Qi-supplementing medicine:
Suitable for patients with qi deficiency, characterized by easy fatigue, shortness of breath, low voice, lack of energy, dizziness, spontaneous sweating, poor appetite, and may also have symptoms such as prolapse, hernia, uterine prolapse, excessive sweating, and susceptibility to colds. Qi-supplementing medicines include ginseng, Codonopsis pilosula, and astragalus.
Steamed lean pork with orange peel
[Ingredients] 1 orange, 200g lean pork.
[Method] Cut off the top of the orange and remove the pulp. Chop the lean pork into small pieces and make them into meatballs. Put the meatballs into the orange, add an appropriate amount of water, cover the top, seal it with a bamboo skewer, and place it in a bowl. Steam over low heat for 2 hours until the meatballs are cooked. Take out the meatballs, season with soy sauce or sugar, and serve.
[Efficacy] Tonify the spleen and warm the stomach, promote qi circulation, and relieve pain.
(2) Blood-supplementing medicine:
Suitable for people with pale complexion, pale limbs, nails, and lips, prone to dizziness and blurred vision, tinnitus, women with scanty menstruation and pale blood, and prone to palpitations. Common blood-supplementing medicines include Chinese angelica, peony, cooked Rehmannia glutinosa, fleeceflower root, and goji berries.
Porridge with dried tangerine peel and lean pork
[Ingredients] 9g dried tangerine peel, 12g cuttlefish bone, 50g lean pork, appropriate amount of white rice.
[Method] Rinse the lean pork and cut it into slices. Rinse the white rice and cook it with dried tangerine peel and cuttlefish bone to make porridge. After it is cooked, remove the dried tangerine peel and cuttlefish bone, add the lean pork slices and cook until the pork is cooked. Season with salt and serve.
[Efficacy] Strengthen the spleen, promote qi circulation, and invigorate the deficiency.
(3) Yin-supplementing medicine:
Suitable for people with weak physical condition, dry and withered skin, tinnitus, palpitations, insomnia, night sweats, constipation, nocturnal emission, dry and thirsty mouth, and hot palms and soles. Usually, it is suitable for chronic diseases and those with symptoms of rising deficient fire. Common yin-supplementing herbs include lily, dwarf lilyturf, Ophiopogon japonicus, dried rehmannia, and white fungus.
Nutritious and warming stomach powder
[Ingredients] 500g soybeans, 1000g glutinous rice, 30g dried tangerine peel, 10g ginger.
[Method] Soak the soybeans in rice washing water for 4 hours (until they are swollen), then wash them with clean water and drain. Heat the coarse sand in an iron pot, then pour in the soybeans and stir-fry until the soybeans make a popping sound and the skin turns yellow. Remove the soybeans while hot and grind them into coarse powder. Cut the dried tangerine peel and ginger into small pieces, dry them, and mix them with the soybean powder. Grind them into fine powder together. Clean the glutinous rice, drain it, stir-fry it until it turns slightly yellow, and remove from the heat. Grind it into fine powder after mixing it with the soybean powder. Bottle it and seal it tightly to prevent moisture. When consuming, pour the powder into a pot, add brown sugar or white sugar for seasoning, dilute it with water, and heat it until it foams into a paste.
[Efficacy] Tonify the middle burner, invigorate the spleen, warm the stomach, and relieve gas.
[Indications] Suitable for elderly patients with chronic gastritis.
[Note] It is most suitable to consume it in winter and spring.
(4) Yang-supplementing medicine:
Mainly suitable for yang deficiency, feeling cold, cold limbs, or low body temperature, mental fatigue, a tasteless mouth or a preference for hot drinks, cold and painful waist and stomach, weak knees, frequent urination or scanty swelling, loose stools. Common yang-supplementing herbs include deer antler, clam, purple river cart, cynomorium songaricum, walnut, and cordyceps.
Porridge with Buddha's hand citron
[Ingredients] 10g Buddha's hand citron, 50g polished rice, appropriate amount of rock sugar.
[Method] Add 200ml of water to the Buddha's hand citron, boil until it reduces to 100ml, remove the residue, add the polished rice and rock sugar. Then add about 400ml of water, and cook until it becomes a thin porridge.
[Efficacy] Regulate the liver and stomach, promote qi circulation, and relieve pain.
[Note] It should not be boiled for a long time due to the high content of volatile oil in Buddha's hand citron.
