Summer solstice has arrived, and we need to pay extra attention to our diet during this time. Today, I will bring you some simple, delicious and healthy traditional Chinese medicinal recipes. Let's take a look together!
Lotus Root Porridge
Ingredients: 200g fresh lotus root, 50-100g glutinous rice, some brown sugar.
Instructions: Wash the fresh lotus root and cut it into thin slices. Put the lotus root slices and glutinous rice in a clay pot, add about 500ml of water, and cook the porridge over low heat. When the porridge is almost cooked, add brown sugar and cook for a while.
Usage: Serve warm for breakfast, lunch, and dinner.
Benefits: Tonifies qi, strengthens the spleen, and stops bleeding.
Application: Suitable for people with thin body due to spleen and stomach qi deficiency or qi and yin deficiency, with symptoms such as thirst, poor appetite, and loose stools. Also suitable for postpartum excessive uterine bleeding, irregular menstruation, nosebleeds, and conjunctival congestion caused by blood stasis.
Hawthorn Porridge
Ingredients: 30-40g hawthorn, 50-80g glutinous rice, some white sugar.
Instructions: Stir-fry the hawthorn until it turns brown, soak it in warm water for a while, then simmer it to extract about 150ml of concentrated juice. Mix the juice with glutinous rice and add about 400ml of water. Cook the porridge over low heat until the rice is cooked and the soup is thick. Finally, add white sugar.
Usage: Serve warm as a snack for breakfast and dinner. Repeat the process for 7-10 days.
Benefits: Tonifies the spleen, promotes digestion, resolves stagnation, activates blood circulation, and dispels blood stasis.
Application: Suitable for people with symptoms such as fullness and bloating in the stomach area, abdominal pain, diarrhea, indigestion, and poor digestion caused by food stagnation. Also suitable for abdominal pain during the late stages of menstruation, menstrual pain, irregular menstruation, postpartum abdominal pain, and prevention and treatment of hypertension, coronary heart disease, insufficient coronary artery blood supply, angina pectoris, hyperlipidemia, and senile heart weakness.
Note: Hawthorn porridge is sour and sweet, not suitable for consumption on an empty stomach.
Lotus Seed Porridge
Ingredients: 20g lotus seed powder, 50g glutinous rice (or regular rice), some brown sugar.
Instructions: Sun-dry the lotus seeds and grind them into fine powder. Put the lotus seed powder and glutinous rice (or regular rice) in a clay pot, add water and bring to a boil over high heat. Then simmer over low heat until the porridge becomes sticky. Finally, add brown sugar.
Usage: Serve warm on an empty stomach for breakfast and dinner.
Benefits: Tonifies the spleen, stops diarrhea, nourishes the kidneys, consolidates essence, nourishes the heart, and calms the mind.
Application: Suitable for people with symptoms such as thin body due to spleen and stomach qi deficiency, poor appetite, diarrhea, malnutrition, and pale complexion. Also suitable for nocturnal emission, frequent urination at night, and excessive vaginal discharge caused by kidney qi deficiency. In addition, it can be used for symptoms such as palpitations, restlessness, insomnia, and excessive dreaming caused by heart and blood deficiency.
Note: Not suitable for consumption by those with cold spleen and stomach, or symptoms of cold-induced illness, irritability, and a red tongue with yellow coating or constipation and dark yellow urine.
Water Chestnut Flour Porridge
Ingredients: 30g water chestnut flour, 50g glutinous rice, some white sugar.
Instructions: Remove the shells from the water chestnuts and dry them in the sun. Grind them into fine powder. Put the glutinous rice in a clay pot with about 400ml of water. When the rice is half cooked, add the water chestnut flour and cook the porridge over low heat. Finally, add white sugar.
Usage: Serve warm for breakfast and dinner.
Benefits: Tonifies qi, strengthens the spleen, and boosts the immune system to prevent cancer.
Application: Suitable for people with symptoms such as thin body due to spleen and stomach qi deficiency, malnutrition, dull complexion, chronic diarrhea, and loss of appetite. Also suitable for supporting the treatment of esophageal cancer, stomach cancer, liver cancer, breast cancer, cervical cancer, and other diseases.
Note: Not suitable for consumption by those with spleen and stomach deficiency cold.
Stir-Fried Bean Sprouts with Lotus Root and Lotus Leaf
Ingredients: 200g lotus leaf, 50g lotus seeds, 150g bean sprouts, 100g lotus root, some vegetable oil, a little salt, monosodium glutamate and cornstarch.
Instructions: Put the lotus seeds and lotus leaf in a pot, add enough water, and simmer over low heat. Set aside. Cut the fresh lotus root into thin strips and stir-fry until 70% cooked. Then add the cooked lotus seeds and washed bean sprouts. Season with salt and monosodium glutamate to taste. Thicken the sauce with cornstarch. Serve on a plate.
Usage: Serve as a side dish with meals.
