With the faster pace of life, irregular schedules, and aging, many middle-aged and elderly people have cardiovascular problems and are troubled by "three highs". So how can we effectively lower cholesterol and blood pressure without taking medication? Traditional Chinese medicine recommends several delicious medicinal porridges that can effectively lower cholesterol and blood pressure. Let's take a look together...
Medicinal Porridges for Lowering Cholesterol and Blood Pressure
1. Radish, Mung Bean, and Ophiopogon Japonicus Porridge
Ingredients: 20g white radish, 40g mung beans, 40g rice, a suitable amount of Ophiopogon Japonicus, 2g salt.
Instructions:
1. Soak and wash the rice and mung beans. Cut the white radish into small cubes. Wash and boil the Ophiopogon Japonicus, then extract the juice and set it aside.
2. Put the juice in a pot and heat it. Add the rice and mung beans and cook until they flower.
3. Add the white radish and cook until the porridge thickens. Stir in the salt and mix well.
Benefits:
1. White radish: It helps with digestion, relieves bloating, nourishes Yin and moistens the lungs, detoxifies and promotes salivation, diuresis, and bowel movements.
2. Mung beans: They have the effects of clearing heat and detoxifying, relieving summer heat and thirst, diuresis and reducing swelling, promoting bowel movements, lowering blood lipids, and protecting the liver.
3. Ophiopogon Japonicus: It nourishes Yin and clears heat, moistens the lungs, and nourishes the kidneys. It is used to treat symptoms such as Yin deficiency fever, lung abscess, and thirst.
4. Rice: It tonifies the spleen, harmonizes the stomach, and clears the lungs.
5. Radish, mung bean, and Ophiopogon Japonicus porridge: This porridge has the effects of clearing heat and relieving summer heat, diuresis and reducing swelling, detoxification and promoting salivation, lowering cholesterol and blood pressure, and moistening the intestines and promoting bowel movements.
2. Corn Silk and Lotus Leaf Porridge
Ingredients: 3g corn silk, 2g lotus leaf, 80g rice, 2g salt, chopped green onion.
Instructions:
1. Soak the rice in water and remove it. Wash the lotus leaf and cook it in water to extract the juice. Take out the lotus leaf and set it aside. Wash the corn silk and drain it.
2. Put the rice in a pot with a suitable amount of water and cook until thick.
3. Add the corn silk and lotus leaf juice and simmer for a while. Add salt and mix well. Sprinkle with green onions.
Benefits:
1. Corn silk: It has the effects of lowering blood lipids, blood pressure, and blood sugar, cooling blood, diuresis, clearing heat, and promoting urination, and soothing the liver and gallbladder.
2. Lotus leaf: It has the effects of relieving summer heat and dampness, invigorating the spleen and raising Yang, and dispersing stasis and stopping bleeding.
3. Rice: It has the effects of tonifying the middle Jiao and Qi, invigorating the spleen and nourishing the stomach, harmonizing the five Zang organs, promoting blood circulation, improving hearing and vision, relieving restlessness, thirst, and diarrhea.
4. Corn silk and lotus leaf porridge: This porridge has the effects of diuresis and reducing swelling, clearing heat and detoxifying, lowering cholesterol and blood pressure, and cooling blood and stopping bleeding.
3. Lotus Leaf and Goji Berry Porridge
Ingredients: 1 lotus leaf, 100g rice, 5g goji berries, sugar to taste.
Instructions:
1. Wash the rice and soak it in water for 20 minutes. Wash the goji berries. Wash the lotus leaf and cut it into slices.
2. Put a suitable amount of water in a pot and bring it to a boil. Add the rice and simmer on low heat until the rice grains bloom. Add the lotus leaf slices and goji berries and continue cooking.
3. When the rice grains are soft and cooked, remove the lotus leaf and serve. Add sugar to taste before serving.
Benefits:
1. Lotus leaf: It lowers blood pressure and blood lipids. Lotus leaf can significantly reduce triglyceride and cholesterol levels, and it has a therapeutic effect on abnormal blood lipids, atherosclerosis, and coronary heart disease.
2. Goji berries: They enhance immunity, lower blood lipids and blood pressure, and promote gastrointestinal motility.
3. Lotus leaf and goji berry porridge: It has the effects of lowering cholesterol and blood pressure, protecting cardiovascular health, and weight loss.
For friends with hypertension, these three medicinal porridges are not only simple and delicious but also help lower cholesterol and blood pressure. So why not make a bowl of porridge to lower cholesterol and blood pressure for yourself?
