How to make health porridge

March 31, 2023
When spring arrives, nature's yang energy begins to rise and the climate becomes milder, making it a suitable season for nourishing the liver. For those who prefer porridge, what are the options for spring health porridge?

Black Rice Porridge

Directions: Boil black rice in water until the porridge is cooked, add 1~2 eggs and boil until boiling, then mix in rock sugar and serve. Efficacy: Black rice is flat and sweet, and contains much more protein than japonica rice, with 15 kinds of amino acids and many vitamins. Black rice can nourish the liver, nourish the spleen, benefit the stomach and nourish the kidneys, and enjoy the reputation of "king of the world rice", which is a good food for spring tonic. This congee is suitable for deficiency of liver and kidney, and for women with postpartum deficiency.

Red Date Porridge

How to do: 10-15 red dates, 100 grams of round-grained rice, cook the porridge as usual. Efficacy: This congee is suitable for spleen and stomach weakness caused by dullness and loose stools, deficiency of blood and Qi, thrombocytopenia, anemia, chronic hepatitis, malnutrition, etc.

Peanut nut congee

Method: 50 grams of peanut kernels with clothes, 100 grams of round-grained rice, put water into the same pot and cook the porridge. Add sugar to taste when eating. Effect: It can strengthen the spleen and nourish the blood, moisten the lungs and stop coughing, and stop the bleeding of breast milk. This porridge is suitable for dry cough with little phlegm, chronic bronchitis, various bleeding disorders, hemophilia, anemia, postpartum lactation deficiency, dry stools.

Chicken Liver Congee

Directions: Boil 100 grams of round-grained rice with water; wash and chop 50 grams of chicken liver, put it into the porridge, and continue to boil until the porridge is ready, and serve with seasoning. This congee is suitable for the deficiency of liver and blood caused by blurred vision, night blindness, children's noma, and women's postpartum anemia.

Chrysanthemum congee

How to do: 15-30 grams of young chrysanthemum seedlings, washed and finely chopped; 100 grams of round-grained rice, appropriate amount of rock sugar, cook the porridge as usual. Efficacy: eat it to clear the liver and brighten the day, remove wind-heat, lower blood pressure. This congee is suitable for redness of the liver fire, wind fire, dizziness, irritability and insomnia, bitterness and tinnitus.

Coix seeds glutinous rice and red dates porridge

How to do: 100 grams of glutinous rice, 50 grams each of coix seeds and red dates, add water and cook the porridge together, and when the porridge is thick, mix in brown sugar for consumption. Efficacy: This porridge not only nourishes the deficiency, strengthens the spleen and stomach, nourishes the liver and blood, and the three ingredients contain vitamin B1, which can regulate nerve activity and prevent drowsy spring sleepiness.

Shiitake Mushroom Porridge

How to do: Wash 80~200g of japonica rice, add 4~5 bowls of water; 80~100g of shiitake mushrooms, soak and wash, cut into strips and put into a pot, boil together on high heat, cook on low heat to thicken, add a little salt and serve. Efficacy: Shiitake mushroom porridge has the effect of benefiting qi, spleen and stomach, mainly used for people with weak spleen and stomach, loss of appetite, less qi and general weakness.

Yam and wolfberry porridge

Directions: Wash 15 grams each of yam and wolfberry, rinse 80 grams of round-grained rice and put it into a pot with yam and wolfberry, add 4 bowls of water, boil on high heat and cook on low heat until the porridge is ready. Efficacy: yam and wolfberry porridge has the effect of tonifying the liver and kidney, especially suitable for people with weakness of the waist and knees and weakness of the body due to deficiency of liver and kidney in spring.
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