Brain-nourishing and sleep-relief porridge

Ingredients for brain-nourishing and sleep-relief porridge

1 tablespoon of longan pulp, 1 cup of glutinous rice, some sugar

How to make brain-nourishing and sleep-relief porridge

1.) Wash the japonica rice and soak it in water for 2 to 3 hours.

2.) Pour 1000cc of water into the pot, add the glutinous rice and cook for about 1 hour, add the longan pulp and cook over low heat for 10 minutes, add appropriate amount of sugar to taste.

Some medicinal porridges are made of grains, vegetables, and fruits, and have no peculiar smell. However, some medicinal porridges have peculiar smells and are not easy to be accepted. In order to reduce the peculiar smell, some seasonings can be added appropriately. For example, some porridge base ingredients, such as fish and dried shrimp shell powder, inevitably produce fishy smells. At this time, if you add some pepper powder to the porridge appropriately, it can not only remove the fishy smell, but also make the porridge taste more fragrant and delicious.

Drinking too hot porridge frequently is very irritating to the esophagus. It will not only damage the esophageal mucosa, but also cause esophageal inflammation and mucosal necrosis. Over time, it will also induce esophageal cancer. Medical research shows that the heat-resistant temperature of the oral cavity, esophagus and stomach mucosa is 50℃ to 60℃. Long-term stimulation by hot food may promote cancer. According to surveys, in areas where esophageal cancer is concentrated, most patients have the habit of eating hot food.

Some people with poor gastrointestinal function often eat thin porridge, thinking that thin porridge is easy to digest, but they don’t know that it is counterproductive. This is because thin porridge contains more water, and after entering the gastrointestinal tract, it is easy to dilute the digestive juice, saliva and gastric juice, thus affecting the digestive function of the gastrointestinal tract. At the same time, the stomach and intestines can accommodate so much thin porridge at once, which makes people feel uncomfortable and bloated in the abdomen. Therefore, people with poor gastrointestinal function should not often eat very thin porridge.

From south to north in my country, there are many varieties of porridge, with unique flavors and different effects. These porridges are made because of the different regions and climates. For example, northerners often eat vegetable porridge in spring, mung bean porridge in summer, lotus root porridge and chrysanthemum porridge in autumn, and mutton porridge in winter. Southerners also eat porridge differently in winter and summer.

Generally speaking, porridge can be eaten at all three meals of the day, but the best time to eat it is in the morning. In the cold winter mornings, if people can drink a bowl of hot taro porridge, glutinous rice porridge, pumpkin porridge, red date porridge, chicken porridge, dog meat porridge, beef porridge or fairy porridge, they will immediately feel energetic. According to the theory of traditional Chinese medicine, the spleen is sluggish and sluggish in the morning, and the stomach is not moistened in the morning, which often makes people lose their appetite and have a poor appetite. At this time, if you force yourself to eat greasy and hard food, it will cause food stagnation and indigestion. If you eat light porridge, it can produce body fluids and benefit the stomach, moisten the stomach qi, activate the spleen, and facilitate digestion.

The second is to drink porridge at night. In the hot summer, drinking cool mung bean porridge, lotus seed porridge, winter melon porridge, water chestnut porridge, pear porridge, hawthorn porridge, and lotus root porridge at night can not only moisten the throat, but also adjust the appetite. The great poet Su Dongpo once personally experienced the joy of eating porridge at night: "I was very hungry at night, and Wu Ziye advised me to eat white porridge, saying that it can get rid of the old and bring in the new, and benefit the diaphragm and stomach. Porridge is delicious, and a good sleep after eating porridge is wonderful."