Common Ailment Treatment Porridge (Continued): Cerebral Blood Flow, Osteoporosis, and Hypertension

Walnut and Purple Rice Porridge

Beneficial for cardiovascular and cerebrovascular health

Walnuts are known as the "longevity fruit" and are rich in protein and unsaturated fatty acids essential for the human body, helping to prevent and treat atherosclerosis and anemia. Purple rice is known for its blood-nourishing and qi-tonifying effects. This porridge, combining the two, can help prevent cardiovascular and cerebrovascular diseases and promote blood circulation.

Material

20g purple rice, 25g walnuts, 20g glutinous rice

seasoning

Rock sugar (appropriate amount)

practice

1. Rinse the purple rice and glutinous rice separately and soak them for 4 hours; wash the walnuts and break them into pieces.

2. Place a pot on the stove, add an appropriate amount of water and bring to a boil. Add purple rice and glutinous rice, bring to a boil over high heat, then reduce to low heat. Add chopped walnuts and continue to simmer. When the porridge is almost cooked, add rock sugar and cook until dissolved.

Cooking Tips

Avoid over-rinsing purple rice, as this can cause the loss of vitamins and minerals from the bran and inner membrane, reducing its nutritional value.

rapeseed and rice porridge

Promote blood circulation and remove blood stasis

Bok choy has the effects of promoting blood circulation, removing blood stasis, nourishing the skin, and enhancing the liver's detoxification ability. Cooking it with rice into porridge can preserve more of its nutrients and tastes good, making it suitable for people with blood stasis constitution.

Material

40 grams of rice, 50 grams of bok choy

seasoning

2 grams of salt, a little sesame oil

practice

1. Wash the bok choy, blanch it in boiling water, and chop it finely; rinse the rice and soak it in water for 30 minutes.

2. Place a pot on the stove, add an appropriate amount of water and bring to a boil. Add rice and bring to a boil over high heat, then reduce to low heat and simmer until it becomes porridge. Add chopped bok choy and mix well. Season with sesame oil and salt.

Buckwheat and mushroom porridge

Improve the body's disease resistance

This porridge is rich in dietary fiber and minerals such as potassium, which helps with metabolism and the elimination of fat from the intestines, thus aiding in a slimmer abdomen. It can also boost the body's immunity and resistance.

Material

20g rice, 20g buckwheat, 30g shiitake mushrooms

practice

1. Soak shiitake mushrooms in water until softened, then slice them into strips.

2. Rinse the rice and buckwheat separately and put them in a pot.

3. Add an appropriate amount of water to a pot and bring it to a boil over high heat. Once boiling, add the shredded shiitake mushrooms, reduce the heat to low, and simmer slowly until it becomes porridge.

Job's tears and yam porridge

Boosts immunity and invigorates the spleen.

Job's tears not only have diuretic and antidiarrheal effects, but also enhance immunity and invigorate the spleen and stomach. When cooked into porridge with yam, which also invigorates the spleen and stomach, it is very suitable for people with low immunity.

Material

20 grams of Job's tears, 20 grams of rice, and 50 grams of yam

practice

1. Rinse the Job's tears and rice separately. Soak the Job's tears for 2 hours and the rice for 30 minutes. Wash the yam, peel it, and dice it.

2. Place a pot on the stove, pour in an appropriate amount of water, add the Job's tears and cook until soft, then add diced yam and rice, turn to low heat and simmer until the yam is cooked and the rice is cooked and tender.

Cooking Tips

Yam should not be steamed or boiled for too long, otherwise the amylase contained in the yam will be destroyed, reducing its spleen-strengthening and digestion-aiding effects.

sorghum porridge

Slimming and nourishing, kidney tonifying and essence replenishing

Sorghum is rich in B vitamins, which can promote fat metabolism and prevent obesity. Mantis egg case (Sangpiaoxiao) has kidney-tonifying and essence-replenishing effects. The combination of these two ingredients provides both weight loss and nourishment.

Material

40 grams of sorghum rice, 10 grams of mantis egg case

practice

1. Rinse the sorghum rice thoroughly and soak it in warm water for about half an hour.

2. Boil the mantis egg case in water to obtain a concentrated juice, remove the dregs, and put the juice and sorghum rice into a clay pot.

3. Add an appropriate amount of water, bring to a boil over high heat, then reduce to low heat and simmer until the rice is cooked, soft, and the porridge is thick.

Black sesame porridge

Tonify kidney qi and resist cold

This porridge is rich in protein, especially methionine, which helps the body resist cold. Sesame seeds are a black food, and eating more black foods can nourish kidney energy.

Material

40 grams of rice, 30 grams of black sesame seeds

practice

1. Wash the black sesame seeds, roast them until fragrant, and grind them into powder; rinse the rice thoroughly.

2. Place a clay pot on the fire, pour in an appropriate amount of water and bring to a boil over high heat. Add rice and bring to a boil again. Then reduce the heat to low and cook until the rice is 80% cooked.

3. Add crushed sesame seeds and mix well. Continue to cook until the rice is soft and the porridge is thick.