Scrophularia and Plum Porridge

I heard that Scrophularia and Black Plum Congee can treat pharyngitis. Let us take a closer look at this porridge.

Scrophularia and Plum Porridge

Chronic pharyngitis is a diffuse inflammation of the pharyngeal mucosa, submucosal and lymphatic tissues. The main symptoms are pharyngeal discomfort, pharyngeal pain, dry throat and foreign bodies in the throat. This disease belongs to the category of "throat paralysis" in traditional Chinese medicine. It is mostly caused by Yin deficiency, or excessive consumption of fried foods that damage Yin fluid and cause virtual fire to rise. Clinical syndrome differentiation is divided into two syndrome types: lung Yin deficiency and kidney Yin deficiency.

Kidney Yin Deficiency

Clinical manifestations include dry throat and mouth, dizziness and forgetfulness, soreness of waist and knees, weight loss, fever in the five parts of the body, flushed face and night sweats, red tongue with little coating, and thin and rapid pulse.

Introduction to Scrophularia and Plum Porridge

Recipe: 15 grams each of Scrophularia and black plum, 30 grams of glutinous rice.

Preparation method: First, add appropriate amount of water to Scrophularia and black plum and boil them, remove the residue and take the juice; add glutinous rice and water to cook into thin porridge, when the porridge is ready, add the medicinal juice and rock sugar and cook for a while.

Efficacy: Nourishes yin, clears heat, promotes fluid production and moistens the throat.

Usage: Take as you like.

Scrophularia is the dried root of the dicotyledonous plant Scrophulariaceae. Efficacy: clearing heat and cooling blood, purging fire and detoxifying, nourishing yin. Indications: fever and blood in febrile diseases, fever, thirst, red tongue, spots, bone steaming and fatigue cough, restlessness and insomnia, fluid damage and constipation, dry eyes and blurred vision, sore throat, scrofula and phlegm, carbuncle and sore. Other names: Yuanshen, Zhejiang Scrophularia, Black Ginseng, Wu Yuanshen Chongtai, Guizang, Zhengma, Luchang, Duan, Xuantai, Xian, Zhuma, Fucao, Black Ginseng, Yezhima.

1. Treatment of triple-burner heat accumulation: 1 liang each of Scrophularia, Coptis chinensis, and Rhubarb. Grind into powder and make honey pills the size of walnuts. Take 30 to 40 pills each time with white soup. The pills for children are the size of corn. (Danxi's Heart Method)

2. Treatment of scrofula at the initial stage: 4 liang each of Scrophularia (steamed), Oyster (calcined with vinegar), Fritillaria (core removed and steamed). Grind them into powder, make into pills with refined honey. Take 3 qian each time, with boiled water. Take twice a day. (Xiaolu Pills from "Medical Enlightenment")

3. Treating upper-jiao deficiency, toxic heat congestion, throat and tongue swelling and pain due to typhoid fever: 1 liang each of Scrophularia, Belamcanda, and Rhizoma Dioscoreae. Pound and sieve the above medicines into powder. Take 5 qian each time, boil with a large cup of water until 50% is left, remove the residue, and take warm at any time. (Scrophularia powder in "Taiping Shenghui Fang")

4. For the treatment of acute throat paralysis in both adults and children: 1 liang each of Scrophularia ningpoensis and Rhizoma Atractylodis Macrocephalae (half-cooked and half-fried). Grind into powder and take with one cup of fresh water. (Taiping Shenghui Fang)