How to make plantain leaf porridge

I believe many of my friends have forgotten how to make Plantain Leaf Porridge, so let’s review it below.

Plantain Leaf Porridge

Cuisine and efficacy: Medicinal recipes Diuretic recipes Eye-improving recipes Expectorant recipes Heat-clearing and fire-removing recipes Process: Cooking

Ingredients for Plantain Leaf Porridge

Ingredients: 50g plantain, 50g japonica rice

Seasoning: 15g green onion

How to make plantain leaf porridge

1. First, remove impurities from the plantain leaves, wash them with clean water, and chop them with a knife.

2. Put the plantain leaves and green onion into the pot, add appropriate amount of water, bring to a boil, remove the residue and keep the juice.

3. Wash the japonica rice, put it into the pot of boiling juice, add appropriate amount of water, and cook the porridge.

Health Tips

Plantain is also known as plantain, cow beet, and field spinach, and its leaves are called plantain leaves.

According to traditional Chinese medicine, plantain leaves are sweet and cold in nature. They can clear away heat and promote diuresis, clear the liver and improve eyesight, eliminate phlegm and relieve cough, and eliminate dampness and stop diarrhea. They are suitable for edema caused by internal accumulation of damp heat; frequent urination, urgency, and pain during urinary tract infection; diarrhea and bacillary dysentery caused by summer heat; red, swollen, and painful eyes caused by liver heat, fear of light, tears, and blurred vision.

According to analysis, every 100 grams of plantain contains 4.0 grams of protein, 1.0 grams of fat, 11.0 grams of sugar, 5.85 milligrams of carotene, 0.09 milligrams of thiamine, 0.25 milligrams of riboflavin, 23 milligrams of vitamin C, 309 milligrams of calcium, 175 milligrams of phosphorus, and 25.3 milligrams of iron. According to modern research reports, plantain not only has a significant diuretic effect, but also has obvious expectorant, antibacterial, and antihypertensive effects. It can act on the respiratory center and has a strong cough suppressant effect. It can increase the secretion of tracheal and bronchial mucus and has an expectorant effect.

Diuretic, heat-clearing, eyesight-improving and expectorant.

Food incompatibility

Japonica rice: Tang Dynasty Meng Shen said: "Japonica rice cannot be eaten with horse meat, as it will cause tumors. It cannot be eaten with Xanthium sibiricum, as it will cause sudden heart pain."

Wang Yuying of the Qing Dynasty: "Although fried rice is fragrant, it is dry and helps to stimulate fire. People who are not suffering from cold and diarrhea should avoid it."