How to make lettuce porridge

The method of making lettuce porridge is actually not as difficult as everyone imagines. Please see the detailed introduction below.

Lettuce Seed Porridge

Ingredients for lettuce porridge

Ingredients: 15 grams of lettuce seeds, 6 grams of licorice, and 100 grams of polished rice.

Lettuce porridge recipe

1 Crush the lettuce seeds, add licorice,

2 Add 200 ml of water and cook until 100 ml of water remains.

3 Filter the juice and remove the residue. Put the filtered juice and polished rice into the pot, add water and cook until the rice is soft.

The efficacy of lettuce porridge

Efficacy: Lettuce seeds are the seeds of the Asteraceae plant lettuce. The best ones are those with full grains, dry and free of impurities. It is bitter and cold in nature, can promote lactation and relieve urination. Licorice is sweet and mild in nature, can soothe the stomach and relieve urgency, and harmonize various medicines. Japonica rice porridge is known as "the best thing in the world to nourish people". The combination of these three ingredients is a very good lactation-promoting medicinal diet.

【Additional prescription】 ①Treatment of lactation failure: 1. 30 lettuce seeds. Grind into powder and drink with wine. (Compendium of Materia Medica) 2. 1 he of lettuce seeds, 3 qian of raw licorice, 50 he of glutinous rice and 100 g of polished rice. Cook into porridge and eat frequently. (Compendium of Materia Medica)

②Treat kidney jaundice: grind one cup of lettuce seeds into fine powder. Boil for five minutes with one cup of water, remove the residue, and take it warm at any time. (Sheng Hui Fang)

③Treat scrotal swelling: 1 he of lettuce seeds. Grind into powder, add 1 cup of water, boil for 5 times, and drink while warm. (Compendium of Materia Medica)

④ To treat the scars caused by boils and ulcers where hair does not grow: first scrape the scars with a bamboo knife, then use a bundle of lettuce seeds and monkey ginger to rub the scars frequently. (Zhai Yuan Fang)

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