Bamboo Leaf Porridge

I guess you don’t know much about bamboo leaf porridge, so let me give you a detailed introduction below.

Ingredients: 100 grams of bamboo shoots, 50 grams of red beans, and 50 grams of glutinous rice.

How to make bamboo leaf porridge

Cut bamboo shoots into sections. Let the red beans and glutinous rice swell, add water and bring to a boil, and add bamboo shoots when the rice is cooked.

Directions: Take twice a day on an empty stomach.

Efficacy: Clears away heat and reduces swelling, detoxifies and cools blood.

Description: From empirical prescription. Suitable for colds, fever, thirst, edema, stones, stranguria, etc.

Bamboo leaf vegetable, also known as Commelina communis, light bamboo leaf, horse ear grass, bamboo vegetable, match head, thousand sun sun, is a plant of Commelinaceae, distributed in East China and south of the Yangtze River Basin. Its tender stems and leaves can be eaten, often used as stuffing, cooking, etc.

Nutritional content: Every 100 grams of bamboo leaf vegetable contains 137.9 kJ of calories, 2.8 grams of protein, 0.3 grams of fat, 5 grams of sugar, 1.2 grams of crude fiber, 0.6 milligrams of calcium, 39 milligrams of phosphorus, 5.4 milligrams of iron, 4.29 milligrams of carotene, 0.03 milligrams of vitamin B12, 0.29 milligrams of vitamin B2, 0.9 milligrams of niacin, and 87 milligrams of vitamin C.

Medicinal effects: Commelina is bitter and cold in nature, non-toxic, and has the effects of clearing away heat and detoxifying, promoting diuresis and reducing swelling. It can treat urinary obstruction, painful stranguria, dysentery, carbuncle, snake bites and other symptoms.