White Cardamom Porridge

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White Cardamom Porridge

Porridge recipe ingredients: 3 grams of white cardamom, 3 slices of ginger, and 50 grams of rice.

Cooking method: Select white cardamom and ginger, put them into a pot, add appropriate amount of water, soak for 5-10 minutes, boil in water to extract the juice, add rice and cook into porridge. Or grind the cardamom and ginger, add them to the porridge when it is cooked, and boil it for one or two more times. Take one dose per day for 5-7 days.

Introduction to the efficacy of white cardamom porridge

Indications: Suitable for dampness blocking the middle burner, abdominal pain, loss of appetite, intestinal rumbling and diarrhea, nausea and vomiting, heaviness and tiredness in limbs, etc.

Explanation of the meaning of porridge: White cardamom, also known as white cardamom kernel, is the dried mature fruit of the perennial herb white cardamom of the ginger family. In clinical medicinal use, it is divided into white cardamom, nutmeg, and cardamom. They have similar effects and can be used interchangeably.

According to traditional Chinese medicine, white cardamom is pungent and warm in nature, enters the lung, spleen and stomach meridians, has the functions of removing dampness and promoting qi, warming the middle and stopping vomiting, and is suitable for abdominal distension, poor appetite, nausea and vomiting caused by spleen and stomach qi stagnation and dampness blocking the middle jiao. The Compendium of Materia Medica says that it "mainly treats cold air accumulation, stops vomiting and nausea, eliminates food and lowers qi, disperses stagnant qi in the lungs, and widens the diaphragm to eat." The Kaibao Materia Medica says that it "mainly treats cold air accumulation, stops vomiting and nausea, eliminates food and lowers qi." Pharmacological studies have shown that white cardamom decoction can promote gastric juice decoction, increase gastrointestinal motility, stop abnormal fermentation in the intestines, and expel gas accumulation in the stomach and intestines, so it has a good aromatic stomachic effect. Cooking the two into porridge and taking it can wake up the stomach, strengthen the spleen and remove dampness, so it is effective for spleen and stomach qi stagnation and dampness blocking the middle jiao.

Note: It is not suitable for patients with heat accumulation in the spleen and stomach, vomiting due to stomach heat, and abdominal pain due to heat.