Adenophora porridge

The taste of Adenophora porridge is quite good. Friends who have had it must still remember the taste of it. Let’s learn some knowledge about this porridge.

Adenophora porridge

Cooking method: Wash the Adenophora Root, put it into a pot, add appropriate amount of water, boil it to extract the juice, add rice to cook porridge, add sugar when it is cooked, and boil it for one or two more times. Take one dose per day.

Efficacy: Clears and nourishes the lung yin, nourishes the stomach and produces body fluid.

Indications: Suitable for dry cough with little sputum, cough with blood in sputum, dry throat and thirst, red tongue with little fluid, dull pain in the stomach, poor appetite, constipation, short and yellow urine, etc. caused by damage to the yin of the lung and stomach.

Explanation of the meaning of porridge: Adenophora, also known as Beitiao ginseng, northern adenophora and southern adenophora, is the root of the perennial herbaceous plant Coralina of the Umbelliferae family. It is mainly produced in Shandong, Hebei, Liaoning, Jiangsu and other places.

Introduction to the efficacy of Adenophora porridge

Traditional Chinese medicine believes that Adenophora is sweet and slightly cold in nature, enters the lung and stomach meridians, and has the functions of nourishing yin and moistening the lungs, benefiting the stomach and producing fluid. This product is cold in nature and can clear, sweet in taste and can nourish, and is included in the lung meridian. It can not only clear the heat of the lungs and stomach, but also nourish the yin of the lungs and stomach. It is suitable for dry cough with little sputum, dry throat and other symptoms caused by yin deficiency and lung dryness or heat damage to lung yin, and dry mouth and throat, red tongue with little bitterness, dry stool and other symptoms caused by heat damage to stomach yin or long-term yin deficiency and fluid deficiency due to febrile diseases. "Ben Jing Feng Yuan" says that it "has two types, northern and southern, the northern one is hard and cold in nature, and the southern one is weak in body and weak in strength." "Compendium of Materia Medica" says that it "clears lung fire and treats chronic cough and lung atrophy." "Bencao Congxin" says that "Northern Adenophora...specially nourishes lung yin, clears lung fire, and treats chronic cough and lung atrophy. Southern Adenophora...has the same function as northern Adenophora but is slightly weaker." "Yinpian Xinshen" says that it "nourishes lung and stomach yin and treats fatigue cough and sputum and blood." Pharmacological studies have shown that this product can stimulate the bronchial mucosa and increase secretions, so it has an expectorant effect. It can slightly reduce the body temperature of normal rabbits, and has an antipyretic effect on fever rabbits caused by typhoid vaccine, and has a certain analgesic effect. Cooking porridge and taking it has a good therapeutic effect on various diseases caused by lung and stomach yin deficiency.

Precautions

1. It is not suitable for patients with lung cold, phlegm and cough;

2. Anti-Veratrum (18 Anti-);

3. The effects of Adenophora australis and Glehnia littoralis are similar. They can clear away heat, moisten the lungs and relieve cough, nourish the stomach, produce fluid and quench thirst. However, Adenophora australis has a better effect in clearing the lungs and removing phlegm, while Glehnia littoralis has a stronger effect in nourishing yin and moistening dryness. They should be distinguished when selected clinically.