Elderly people often eat porridge in winter, which is especially suitable for softening blood vessels, lowering blood pressure, anti-aging, and prolonging life.
1. Black Sesame Porridge
Clean and dry black sesame seeds, roast them, and grind them finely. Take 25 grams each time and add them to 100 grams of glutinous rice to cook until the porridge is almost done. Add 1 tablespoon of honey and cook until the porridge thickens. Black sesame seeds have the effect of moisturizing the intestines, benefiting the five viscera, and strengthening the bones. This porridge can nourish the five viscera, moisturize dryness and promote bowel movements, and is suitable for liver and kidney deficiency, dizziness due to deficiency of wind, wind arthralgia, paralysis, constipation, post-illness weakness, premature graying of hair, and insufficient lactation after childbirth.
2. White Fungus Porridge
Take 250 grams of glutinous rice, 15 grams of white fungus, and add an appropriate amount of water to cook into porridge. White fungus is a nourishing food that nourishes yin, moistens the lungs, and generates fluids in autumn. White fungus porridge has the effect of moistening the lungs, stopping cough, and replenishing qi and kidney. It is suitable for cough due to yin deficiency and internal heat, as well as deficiency of both qi and yin.
3. Apple Porridge
Take 500 grams of apples, 100 grams of sago pearls, and 100 grams of sugar, add an appropriate amount of water, and cook into porridge. Apple porridge has the effects of generating fluids, moisturizing the lungs, relieving restlessness, relieving summer heat, and invigorating the stomach. It is suitable for insufficient energy, nausea, indigestion, enteritis, constipation, and hypertension.
