According to traditional Chinese medicine, rice porridge is considered the best nourishing food. Even if you are trying to lose weight, you should still eat at least one bowl of rice porridge every day. Otherwise, you may lose weight but also lose the fullness in your cheeks and chest.
Yam is a very good food. Drink yam stewed with rock sugar every day. Yam can replenish qi, invigorate the spleen and stomach, nourish yin and benefit the lungs, and tonify the kidneys and strengthen essence. It nourishes the spleen, lungs, and kidneys! For those who are deficient in yin and prone to coughing, they can boil yam into soup and drink it as water, which can cure the problem of weak coughing due to deficiency. Yam can also moisturize the skin because the lungs govern the skin and hair.
For those who are weak, thin, have dry skin, reduced memory, or are weak due to overwork or illness, they should eat more yam to strengthen their bodies and resist aging.
Note that while yam nourishes yin, it also promotes dampness. Therefore, you should definitely eat things that help dispel dampness, such as coix seed and poria. You can directly boil yam, mash it into a thick paste, and then boil it to drink as water. After drinking, you can also drink water mixed with coix seed powder.
Rice: It also nourishes qi. Women should eat rice every day to maintain a healthy spleen and stomach. Rice nourishes the spleen, and among all the grains, it has the best effect on nourishing the spleen. If you have insufficient qi and feel tired and weak, you should eat rice. If you have a weak spleen and stomach, feel irritated and thirsty, you can just drink rice porridge.
Other good foods for nourishing the spleen include jujube and honey. They all nourish the spleen, replenish deficiency, and improve complexion.
