How to make leek porridge

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Leek porridge

Ingredients for leek porridge

10 grams of leek seeds, 100 grams of rice, and a little fine salt.

How to make leek porridge

Efficacy: Nourishes the kidney and boosts yang, consolidates essence and stops nocturnal emission, strengthens the spleen and warms the stomach.

Indications: It is suitable for cold pain in the abdomen caused by spleen and kidney yang deficiency, diarrhea or constipation, chronic dysentery due to deficiency and cold, indigestion and nausea, impotence, premature ejaculation, spermatorrhea, leucorrhea, frequent urination, enuresis in children, excessive leucorrhea in women, soreness and coldness of the waist and knees, menstrual pain, and continuous metrorrhagia, etc.

Explanation of the meaning of porridge: Allium seeds are the seeds of the lily plant leek, which are cultivated all over the country. According to traditional Chinese medicine, allium seeds are pungent and sweet in nature, and enter the liver, spleen, kidney, and stomach meridians. They have the functions of warming and nourishing kidney yang, consolidating sperm and stopping nocturnal emission. The Compendium of Materia Medica says that it "mainly treats spermatorrhea in dreams and leucorrhea". The Dietary Record says that it "warms the waist and knees". The Rihuazi Materia Medica says that it "tonifies the liver and the gate of life, treats frequent urination, enuresis, leucorrhea in women, and leucorrhea". The Southern Yunnan Materia Medica says that it "tonifies the liver and kidneys, warms the waist and knees, invigorates the yang channel, and treats impotence". Pharmacological studies have shown that this product contains alkaloids and saponins, and has androgen-like effects. It has therapeutic effects on impotence, premature ejaculation, nocturnal emission, nocturnal emission, or frequent and clear urination, increased leucorrhea in women, cold pain in the waist and knees, etc. caused by insufficient kidney yang.

Note:

1. Leek seeds are pungent and warm, and help boost yang, so they should not be eaten by people with yin deficiency, internal heat, sores, heat accumulation in the spleen and stomach, and hypersexuality;

2. It is not advisable to choose leek porridge in the hot summer season.