Ingredients and preparation of Guizhi Congee

In fact, it is not difficult to make Guizhi Congee. I believe you will be able to do it after reading the introduction below.

Cinnamon Twig Porridge

Ingredients for Guizhi Congee

10 grams of cinnamon twig, 100 grams of rice, 2 stalks of green onion, and 3 slices of ginger.

How to make Guizhi porridge

1 Wash and clean the cinnamon twigs and put them into the pot.

2 Add appropriate amount of water, soak for 5-10 minutes, boil and extract juice.

3 Add rice and cook porridge. When it is cooked, add green onion and minced ginger.

4 Boil it once or twice more and it is ready. Take 1-2 doses daily for 3-5 days.

The efficacy of Guizhi Congee

Induce sweat and relieve exterior symptoms, warm the meridians and promote Yang.

Indications: Suitable for colds, fear of wind and fever, no sweat or sweat, headache and body pain, rheumatism, joint pain, dysmenorrhea, amenorrhea, frostbite, etc.

Explanation of the meaning of porridge: Cassia twig, also known as young cassia twig, cassia twig tip and Sichuan cassia twig, is the young twig of cinnamon, a plant of the Lauraceae family. It is mainly produced in Guangxi, Guangdong and Yunnan, especially in Guangxi. The young twigs are usually cut in spring, dried in the sun or in the shade, and cut into thin slices or small pieces.

According to traditional Chinese medicine, cinnamon twigs are pungent, sweet and warm in nature, and enter the heart, lung and bladder meridians. They have the functions of sweating, relieving exterior symptoms, warming the meridians and promoting yang. The Compendium of Materia Medica says that it "mainly treats coughing, gas stagnation, throat numbness, vomiting and breathing, and benefits joints". The Records of Famous Doctors says that it "warms the tendons and unblocks the meridians". The Changsha Medicine Explanation says that it "enters the liver and gallbladder to disperse inhibition, relieves pain, unblocks the meridians and opens and closes the astringent, and removes cold and dampness". The Materia Medica Explanation says that it "can benefit the joints, warm and unblock the meridians... There are six ways to use it, harmonizing the camp, promoting yang, promoting diuresis, lowering qi, removing blood stasis, and tonifying the middle". Pharmacological studies have shown that cinnamon twig decoction has an inhibitory effect on Staphylococcus aureus, Salmonella typhi and Mycobacterium tuberculosis. Cinnamaldehyde can stimulate the secretion of sweat glands, dilate skin blood vessels, and accelerate the loss of body temperature through sweating to cause antipyretic effects. Cinnamon oil has stomachic, spasmodic, analgesic and cardiotonic effects. Adding scallion and ginger can enhance the diaphoretic and antipyretic effects of cinnamon twigs. It has a good effect of diaphoretic and antipyretic effects, and warming and unblocking the meridians for wind-cold, rheumatism, frostbite, amenorrhea, etc.

Precautions

1. When treating a cold, it is best to take it and lie down to sweat. It is not suitable for treating a wind-heat cold.

2. This product is pungent and warm in nature and helps boost yang, but can easily injure yin and cause bleeding, so it is not suitable for patients with febrile diseases, yin deficiency and yang excess, and blood heat.

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