Peach kernel porridge

Porridge recipe ingredients: 10 grams of peach kernels, 100 grams of rice, and appropriate amount of white sugar.

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

Efficacy: Promote blood circulation, remove blood stasis, dredge meridians and relieve pain.

Indications: Suitable for amenorrhea caused by blood stasis, dysmenorrhea, abdominal pain due to postpartum congestion, traumatic injuries, pain due to congestion, stabbing pain in the chest and flanks, as well as hypertension and angina pectoris caused by coronary heart disease.

Explanation of the meaning of porridge: Peach kernel, also known as light peach kernel, is the seed kernel of the deciduous small tree peach or mountain peach of the Rosaceae family. It is produced in all parts of my country, but those produced in Changde, Hunan, Xiangfan, Laohekou, Hubei, Shandong and Henan are of superior quality.

According to traditional Chinese medicine, peach kernel is sweet and flat in nature, enters the heart, liver, lung and large intestine meridians, and has the functions of promoting blood circulation and removing blood stasis, moistening the intestines and relieving constipation. This product enters the blood of the heart and liver meridians, and is a common medicine for promoting blood circulation and removing blood stasis; this product contains oil, enters the large intestine meridian, and has the function of moistening the intestines and relieving constipation. "Compendium of Materia Medica" says that it "moistens dryness and promotes blood circulation...it is mainly used for blood stasis, wind arthralgia, bone steaming, liver malaria, cold and heat, ghost injection pain, and postpartum blood disease". "Ben Jing" says that it "mainly treats blood stasis and blood stasis. It is bitter to relieve stagnant blood and sweet to generate new blood. After all, it has the function of breaking blood". "Zhenzhu Nang" says that it "treats blood stasis, blood retention, blood dryness, moisturizes the stool, and breaks blood stasis". Therefore, the clinical use of peach kernel to treat various blood stasis diseases is quite effective. Cooking porridge and taking it can reduce the side effects of peach kernel and enhance the therapeutic effect.