Whenever a girl is feeling uncomfortable, drinking a bowl of hot and steaming porridge is undoubtedly the best option, Red Jujube Peanut Sticky Rice Porridge. It is specially designed to treat various discomforts during a girl's menstrual period. Jujube is a common ingredient in our daily life, so what are its benefits and effects?
【Name】
Red Jujube Peanut Sticky Rice Porridge
【Ingredients】
Sticky rice, peanuts, red jujube, red sugar
【Method】
1. Wash the sticky rice and peanuts with clean water and soak them for half an hour;
2. Place the peanuts in cold water, bring to a boil, simmer for a while, add the sticky rice, and simmer over low heat;
3. Add the red jujube and cook together for about half an hour;
4. Add the red sugar, melt the sugar, and the porridge is ready.
【Benefits】
Red jujube can nourish Qi and blood, benefit the liver, strengthen the spleen and stomach, and warm and tonify Yang. This porridge is suitable for symptoms such as poor appetite, loose stools, inadequate Qi and blood, reduced platelets, anemia, chronic hepatitis, and malnutrition caused by weak spleen and stomach.
【Tips】
The dried red jujube in the ingredients is the processed sliced dried red jujube, or you can remove the pits and slice the dried red jujube. Using sliced red jujube to cook the porridge can make the jujube flavor more intense. Infants and young children of a younger age are not suitable for drinking this porridge to avoid getting choked by peanuts.
【Benefits and Effects of Red Jujube】
1. Strengthen the spleen and benefit the stomach
For those with weak spleen and stomach, diarrhea, fatigue, and weakness, eating seven red jujubes every day, or using them together with Codonopsis and Atractylodes, can invigorate the middle burner, strengthen the spleen and stomach, increase appetite, and stop diarrhea. Red jujube and ginger, pinellia ternate, used together can treat symptoms of gastritis caused by careless eating, such as bloating and vomiting.
2. Nourish Qi and blood
Red jujube is a good tonic and is often added to food and medicinal recipes to nourish the body and nourish Qi and blood. Dr. Andy Sun from National Taiwan University Immunology strongly advocates eating red jujube, astragalus, and goji berries regularly to enhance the body's vitality and strengthen the immune system.
3. Nourish blood and calm the mind
For women with irritability, crying, restlessness, etc., using red jujube with licorice and wheat (Ganmai Dazao Tang) can nourish blood and calm the mind, soothe the liver, and relieve depression.
4. Moderate the nature of medicines
Red jujube is often used in strong medicinal prescriptions to reduce the side effects of strong drugs and protect the body's righteous Qi.
