How to make Pipo porridge

What I am going to explain to you below is the method of making Bi Bo Congee. I hope it will be of some help to you.

Ingredients for Pipo Congee

Ingredients: Piper, glutinous rice, sugar, water, pepper

How to make Pipo porridge

Effect: Piper is the immature fruit spike of Piper, a perennial herbaceous vine of the Piperaceae family. Piper porridge is recorded in the book "Taiping Shenghui Fang". It is made by boiling Piper and glutinous rice with water. It has the effects of warming the middle and benefiting the stomach, dispelling cold and relieving pain.

[Indications]

Symptoms include cold and painful stomach, vomiting of clear water, intestinal rumbling and watery diarrhea, and cold dysentery due to deficiency and cold.

The efficacy of Piper serrata porridge

Piper and pepper are both pungent and hot, and both have the effect of warming the middle and dispersing cold, and treating internal cold diseases. Piper is good at moving around the stomach and intestines, and can not only warm and dispel the coldness of the stomach and viscera, but also remove the coldness and qi stagnation of the large intestine. Cooking it with glutinous rice into porridge can warm the middle and replenish the deficiency, and relieve pain. It is the best treatment for dispersing the coldness of the stomach and intestines. However, adding pepper further enhances the effect of warming the middle and dispersing cold. Taking this porridge can achieve satisfactory results for symptoms such as cold pain in the abdomen, vomiting of clear water, cold dysentery and watery diarrhea caused by deficiency cold in the middle jiao.

"Health Food Guide" said: "Pipa porridge can treat cold. Add two he of Pipa powder, one he of pepper, and four he of rice. Cook the porridge and eat it on an empty stomach." It can be seen that our ancestors had already used Pipa to cook porridge to treat cold in the heart and abdomen.

Pepper porridge and Piper serrata porridge both have the functions of warming the middle and dispelling cold, treating stomach cold, vomiting, abdominal pain and diarrhea, but pepper porridge can also strengthen the stomach, while Piper serrata porridge is more inclined to treat hiccups, the two together can be said to complement each other. Therefore, 1-2 grams of pepper powder is often added to Piper serrata porridge for this reason.

[Modern Research]

This product contains piperine, palmitic acid, and volatile oil, and has strong antibacterial and anti-cold effects. Therefore, some people advocate using Piper melongena porridge to prevent colds.

[Notes]

1. Pipo Congee is a very spicy and hot medicinal porridge. It is not suitable for people with all kinds of heat syndrome and those with yin deficiency and fire.

2. Because this product contains volatile oil, it should not be cooked for a long time after adding Piper melongena powder and pepper powder into the porridge.