Eat porridge to keep healthy in winter

When it comes to health preservation in winter, eating porridge is a very delicious porridge. I believe many friends have heard of it.

Eat porridge to keep healthy in winter

Introduction to eating porridge in winter

Winter has already arrived since the beginning of winter. After light snow and heavy snow, the winter solstice is coming soon. In winter, the grass and trees wither, the insects are frozen and hibernating. It is the season when all things in nature are closed. In winter, the yang energy in the human body is hidden. Therefore, the principle of health preservation in winter is to restrain yin and protect yang. Especially the elderly and frail people should go to bed earlier and get up later. It is best to wait until the sun is more abundant before doing physical exercise to prevent disturbing the hidden yang energy in the body and catching a cold. Colds are the biggest enemy of health and longevity for the elderly. It can reduce the body's resistance and aggravate other diseases, such as chronic bronchitis, hypertension, heart disease, etc.

After the winter solstice, the yin energy begins to subside and the yang energy gradually recovers. This is a good time to take supplements, and both food therapy and medicine are easy to exert their effectiveness. Speaking of supplements, there are two categories, one is food supplements and the other is medicine supplements, but "medicine supplements are not as good as food supplements." In winter, eating porridge, in the cold temperature, drinking a bowl of hot, fragrant and delicious porridge is a delicious meal for adults returning home from get off work, children returning from school, and the elderly recuperating at home. Rice is usually used to cook porridge. Rice is sweet and flat in nature, while other rices such as millet, broomcorn millet, and coix seed rice are sweet and slightly cold in nature. Therefore, it is more beneficial to eat rice in winter. Rice has the effects of harmonizing stomach qi, replenishing spleen deficiency, strengthening muscles and bones, and harmonizing the five internal organs. In addition to cooking rice porridge, it can also be cooked into:

Yam porridge: 50g yam (peeled), 50g rice, appropriate amount of honey and cooking oil. Cut the yam into small pieces and fry with oil, add honey, boil the rice into porridge, add the fried yam and boil, then you can eat it. Yam is a good product for nourishing the kidney and spleen.

Chestnut porridge: 50g chestnuts (peeled), 50g rice, a little salt. Cook the raw chestnuts in a pressure cooker (with a little water), peel them, mash them, put them into the washed rice, add water and cook into porridge, then add salt to taste. Chestnuts can nourish the kidneys and have a therapeutic effect on soreness or pain in the waist and knees caused by insufficient kidney qi.

Sesame porridge: 10g sesame, 50g rice, honey or salt. First, fry the sesame until fragrant, wash the rice and cook it into porridge, add the sesame, and mix in honey or salt. It is ready to eat. Sesame can be divided into white sesame and black sesame. White sesame is beneficial to the intestines and lungs; black sesame can nourish the kidneys and strengthen the bones.

Almond porridge: about 20 almonds (peeled), 50 grams of rice, a little sugar or salt. Wash the rice and cook it into porridge. When it is almost cooked, add the almonds and continue to cook until cooked. Add a little sugar or salt. Almonds can relieve cough and asthma, remove phlegm and moisturize dryness.

Walnut and wolfberry porridge: 30g walnut kernels, clean and mash; 15g wolfberry, clean; 50g rice, clean, add appropriate amount of water and cook into porridge. It is a good food therapy for neurasthenia and residual urine.

Pear porridge: Wash 3 duck pears, peel, core and cut into pieces. Add appropriate amount of water and boil for half an hour. Wash 50 grams of rice and cook into thick porridge. When it is almost cooked, add pear juice and pear pieces and cook until cooked. It has the function of moistening the lungs and clearing the heart, removing phlegm and reducing fire, and has a therapeutic effect on children's lung heat cough.

Tripe Rice Porridge: 200g tripe, 50g rice, a little salt. Scrub the tripe with salt, cut into cubes, cook with washed rice and water into porridge, add a little salt to taste. It is a good food therapy for children with physical weakness, loss of appetite, and limb fatigue after illness.