Hawthorn Shenqu Congee

Hawthorn Shenqu Congee

30 grams of hawthorn, 15 grams of Shenqu, 100 grams of polished rice, and 6 grams of brown sugar.

Introduction to the method of hawthorn Shenqu porridge

Clean hawthorn and Shenqu, crush them, put them into a casserole to boil the medicinal juice, keep the juice and remove the residue. Wash the polished rice, put it into another casserole, add an appropriate amount of water and boil it, then pour in the medicinal juice. Cook it into a thin porridge, then add brown sugar and mix well.

introduce:

Warm and eat in moderation. This recipe is included in the "Healthy Diet Therapy Recipe". The Shenqu in the recipe is also known as Liuqu. It is made by grinding fresh Artemisia annua, fresh Xanthium sibiricum, fresh Polygonum odoratum, red beans and almonds, mixing them with wheat bran and flour, and fermenting them. It is the most commonly used finished medicine in traditional Chinese medicine to harmonize the spleen and stomach and help digestion. The "Compendium of Materia Medica" says that it can "digest food and relieve gas." In terms of modern pharmacology, Shenqu is a yeast preparation containing amylase, yeast, volatile oil, B vitamins, etc. It promotes digestion through its ingredients and fermentation. It is often used to treat food stagnation, chest and abdominal distension, loss of appetite, etc.

The use of Shenqu in porridge can be seen in the Yuan and Ming dynasties. For example, in the book Duoneng Bi Shi written by Liu Ji (also known as Liu Bowen) in the late Yuan and early Ming dynasties, there is a recipe for "Qu Mo Congee" for treating food boils. Shenqu and polished rice are used to cook porridge together, "to treat indigestion in the elderly due to spleen deficiency". Hawthorn is added to this recipe to increase its ability to digest food and resolve accumulation. It has the effects of strengthening the spleen and stomach, eliminating food accumulation, and dispersing blood stasis. It is suitable for indigestion, abdominal pain, diarrhea and other diseases.

use:

For patients with malabsorption syndrome, if food stagnation is not digested, symptoms include chest tightness, abdominal distension, and loss of appetite, it can be used with malt, hawthorn, and radish seeds; if the spleen and stomach are weak, food stagnation is blocked, and the patient has abdominal distension and poor appetite, it can be used with codonopsis, atractylodes, and malt; if the stagnation is not digested for a long time, and there is abdominal pain and fullness, it can be combined with costus root, magnolia bark, and trifoliate lancea. For patients who are affected by the turbid qi of summer heat and dampness, and have food stagnation, symptoms include dizziness, chest tightness, nausea and vomiting, loose stools, and loss of appetite, it can be used with patchouli, perilla, atractylodes, and magnolia bark to eliminate dampness and digest food; if there is damp heat in the intestines and stagnation, symptoms include abdominal pain, urgency, and red and white diarrhea, it can be used with rhubarb, coptis root, betel nut, and charred hawthorn to eliminate heat, remove stagnation, and digest food. In addition, this product can promote the digestion and absorption of mineral drugs, and can be used with mineral drugs such as magnetite and cinnabar. This product can also stop milk production and can be taken alone.