How to make Codonopsis millet porridge

Below are some methods of making Codonopsis pilosula millet porridge. I hope you like it.

Codonopsis millet porridge

My aunt has a bad stomach. She had gastric bleeding more than ten years ago. I don't know if there is a direct connection. My parents also have stomach problems. Although we look young, our stomachs are not that good. My aunt now cooks codonopsis millet porridge every morning. I heard that it can nourish the stomach. So, I cook it occasionally to eat. It nourishes the stomach.

Ingredients for Codonopsis millet porridge

Ingredients: 50g millet, 1 root of Codonopsis pilosula

How to make Codonopsis millet porridge

1. Wash the Codonopsis pilosula, cut into small pieces, and soak in water for 10-20 minutes.

2. Put water in the pot and bring it to a boil, then put the Codonopsis pilosula in and bring it to a boil, then cook for a while (because it is a dry medicinal material, it needs to be cooked for a while to bring out its flavor), then put the washed millet in and cook.

3. Wait for the pot to boil again, turn to medium-low heat, and cook with the lid half covered. Open the lid from time to time to stir to prevent overflow.

4. When the millet blooms, it is cooked. No need to add sugar or salt or other seasonings.

Millet can also be eaten like this: Lily Millet Porridge

Millet, sesame and walnut porridge

Effects of Codonopsis pilosula:

Tonify the middle, replenish qi, and promote the production of body fluids.

It is used to treat weak spleen and stomach, deficiency of qi and blood, fatigue, poor appetite, thirst, chronic diarrhea, and prolapse of the anus.

① "Ben Jing Feng Yuan": Clears the lungs.

② "Bencao Congxin": Nourish the middle and replenish qi, harmonize the spleen and stomach, and eliminate thirst.

③ "Supplement to Compendium of Materia Medica": Treats lung deficiency and replenishes lung qi.

④ "Scientific Folk Herbs": blood tonic.

Suitable for chronic anemia, chlorosis, leukemia, adenosis, and rickets.

⑤ "Handbook of Chinese Medicinal Materials": Treats internal injuries due to deficiency and fatigue, cold stomach and intestines, diarrhea and chronic dysentery, asthma, thirst, fever and spontaneous sweating, uterine bleeding in women, and various diseases related to pregnancy and childbirth.