The benefits of taro and vegetable porridge

I believe everyone has heard about the benefits of taro and vegetable porridge. Let me give you a detailed introduction below.

Taro and Vegetable Porridge

Traditional Chinese medicine believes that taro is sweet, spicy, and flat in nature, and enters the intestines and stomach. It has the effects of benefiting the stomach, widening the intestines, relieving constipation, nourishing the liver and kidneys, and replenishing essence and marrow. It has a certain effect on the auxiliary treatment of dry stools, goiter, scrofula, mastitis, insect bites and bee stings, intestinal worms, acute arthritis and other diseases.

The benefits of taro and vegetable porridge

【Function and indications】

It can eliminate scrofula and disperse nodules, treat scrofula, swelling and infection, abdominal problems, psoriasis, and burns caused by hot water or fire.

① "Bie Lu": It is used to relax the intestines and stomach, nourish the skin, and lubricate the middle.

② "Tang Materia Medica": Steam or cook and eat cold to cure fever and quench thirst.

③Meng Shen: Bath to remove the wind from your body, and be careful of the wind for half a day.

④ "Bencao Shiyi" (Supplement to Materia Medica): Swallowing it can stimulate appetite, clear intestinal obstruction, and eating it after childbirth can break up blood. Drinking its juice can stop bleeding and thirst.

⑤ "Rihuazi Materia Medica": It can break up old blood and remove dead skin. Cooked with fish, it can relieve gas and regulate the middle and replenish deficiency.

⑥ "Compendium of Materia Medica in Southern Yunnan": Treats deficiency of vital energy in the middle body. Long-term use can nourish the liver and kidneys, and increase essence and benefit the marrow.

⑦ "Yilin Zhuan Yao": moving water.

⑧ "Bencao Qiuyuan": Stops diarrhea.

⑨ "Sui Xi Ju Diet" says: chewing it raw can treat colic, crushing it and applying it to the initial stage of carbuncle, and taking it in the form of pills can treat scrofula.

⑩ "Records of Medicinal Herbs in Lingnan" states: Cook this into porridge, grind it into powder and eat it with the porridge. It can cure leprosy and leprosy in children, and it is also suitable for adults, and can prevent all scabies.

⑾ "Illustrated Guide to Chinese Medicinal Plants": Mix with sesame oil and apply to treat burns and scalds; rub the warts continuously with taro slices to remove them.