In this fast-paced era, hypertension is becoming increasingly common, especially among middle-aged and elderly people, affecting their normal lives. Many people choose medication to treat hypertension, but dietary therapy is also a good option. Today, I will recommend eight medicinal porridges that can help lower blood pressure and regulate blood lipids. Let's take a look together...
1. Lotus Leaf Porridge
Ingredients: 1 fresh lotus leaf, 100 grams of glutinous rice, sugar to taste.
Method: First, wash the lotus leaf and boil it to make a soup. Cook the soup and glutinous rice together to make porridge. Add sugar to taste.
Benefits: Take once daily. It can clear heat, generate body fluids, quench thirst, lower blood pressure, regulate blood lipids, and help with weight loss. Suitable for people with hypertension, hyperlipidemia, and obesity.
2. Celery Porridge
Ingredients: 250 grams of glutinous rice, 120 grams of celery (with roots), salt to taste.
Method: Wash the celery and cut it into small pieces. Wash the glutinous rice and put it in a pot with the celery. Add an appropriate amount of water and bring to a boil over high heat. Then simmer over low heat until the rice becomes porridge. Add salt and serve.
Benefits: It helps lower blood pressure and blood lipids. Suitable for people with hypertension and coronary heart disease.
3. Hawthorn and Albizia Porridge
Ingredients: 15 grams of hawthorn, 30 grams of albizia flower, 60 grams of glutinous rice, sugar to taste.
Method: Cook the hawthorn and albizia flower together in a pot, strain the juice, and remove the residue. Add the washed glutinous rice to the pot and cook the porridge. Add sugar when the porridge is cooked and continue to cook until it is soft.
Benefits: It helps lower blood pressure, relieve depression, calm the mind, activate blood circulation, and dissolve stasis. Suitable for people with blood stasis and hyperlipidemia.
4. Eggplant Porridge
Ingredients: 200 grams of purple eggplant, 50 grams of minced meat, 100 grams of glutinous rice.
Method: Wash the eggplant, cut it into strips, blanch it in boiling water, and drain. Heat a wok over high heat. Add vegetable oil and heat until it is 70% hot. Add chopped green onion and ginger, stir-fry until fragrant. Add minced meat and cooking wine, stir-fry until the meat is almost cooked. Add the eggplant strips and stir-fry for a moment. Remove from heat and set aside. Wash the glutinous rice, put it in a clay pot, add an appropriate amount of water, and simmer until it becomes thick porridge. Add the eggplant strips and minced meat, add salt, and cook until it boils.
Benefits: It has the effects of clearing heat, activating blood circulation, diuresis, and lowering blood pressure. Suitable for people with hypertension, coronary heart disease, and arteriosclerosis.
5. Carrot Porridge
Ingredients: Fresh carrots, glutinous rice, as needed.
Method: Wash the carrots and cut them into small pieces. Cook them together with the glutinous rice in a pot with an appropriate amount of water until the rice becomes porridge.
Benefits: It strengthens the spleen and stomach, relieves bloating, lowers blood pressure, improves vision, and has diuretic effects. Suitable for people with hypertension, as well as those with digestive disorders, chronic diarrhea, night blindness, rickets in children, and malnutrition.
6. Corn Silk and Honey Porridge
Ingredients: 50 grams of corn silk, 100 grams of glutinous rice, 30 grams of honey.
Method: Wash the corn silk, chop it into fine powder, and put it in a bowl. Wash the glutinous rice, put it in a clay pot, add an appropriate amount of water, and simmer until it becomes thick porridge. When the porridge is almost done, add the corn silk powder, continue to simmer over low heat, and mix in the honey after cooling slightly.
Benefits: It nourishes yin, clears heat, and regulates liver function to lower blood pressure.
7. Pea and Glutinous Rice Porridge
Ingredients: 60 grams of peas, 10 red dates, 100 grams of glutinous rice.
Method: Remove impurities from the peas and red dates, wash them, and soak them in warm water for 30 minutes. Put them in a pot with the washed glutinous rice, add an appropriate amount of water, and simmer over low heat for 1 hour until the peas and glutinous rice are cooked and soft.
Benefits: It nourishes yin, replenishes deficiency, promotes urination, and lowers blood pressure. Suitable for people with hypertension, post-illness weakness, loss of appetite, chronic enteritis, and diarrhea.
8. Tremella Porridge
Ingredients: 20 grams of Tremella, 15 red dates, 100 grams of glutinous rice.
Method: Soak the Tremella in cold water, wash it, tear it into small pieces, and put it in a bowl. Wash the red dates and remove the pits. Put them in a pot with the washed glutinous rice, add water, and simmer until the rice is half-cooked. Add the soaked Tremella and continue to simmer until the porridge is cooked and soft.
Finally, I would like to remind hypertension patients to pay attention to their diet and also regulate their emotions in their daily lives.
