Motherwort Juice Porridge

This porridge recipe is suitable for the treatment or prevention of diseases such as bloody stool, hematemesis, hemoptysis, hematuria, metrorrhagia, leucorrhea, postpartum foul play, postpartum abdominal pain, and excessive postpartum bleeding.

10 ml of motherwort juice, 40 ml of rehmannia juice, 40 ml of lotus root juice, 2 ml of ginger juice, 10 ml of honey, and 2 taels of polished rice.

It nourishes yin, nourishes blood, regulates menstruation, eliminates blood stasis, quenches thirst, and relieves restlessness. It is suitable for yin deficiency fever, thirst after fever, diabetes, vomiting blood, epistaxis, coughing up blood, hematuria, bloody stool, irregular menstruation, metrorrhagia (functional uterine bleeding), postpartum blood fainting, lochia, abdominal pain due to blood stasis, etc.

Wash and mash fresh motherwort, fresh rehmannia root, fresh lotus root and fresh stalks and squeeze out the juice. Cook porridge with polished rice first, and when the rice is cooked, add the above medicinal juices and honey and cook it into a thin porridge.

Motherwort juice porridge was originally a gynecological porridge recipe, used to treat gynecological postpartum diseases. "Taiping Shenghui Fang? Volume 97" states: "To treat postpartum fatigue, blood and qi imbalance, abdominal cramps, blood fainting, anger, heart heat and irritability, and not eating much, motherwort juice porridge recipe. One cup of motherwort juice, two cups of raw rehmannia juice, two cups of lotus root juice, half a cup of ginger juice, two cups of honey, one cup of white corn, wash and grind with water. First, use a large cup of water to cook rice into porridge, then add the various medicinal juices and boil for three or two more times, take two cups each time, three times a day." According to the composition and function of this recipe, it can be used for all kinds of yin deficiency and fluid damage and various hemorrhagic diseases.

The custom is that motherwort is beneficial to women. It is a commonly used product in gynecology, especially a good medicine for postpartum. According to the experience of using medicine, its young plant, that is, the boy motherwort, is better. Chinese medicine believes that motherwort has the functions of promoting blood circulation, replenishing blood, and regulating menstruation. "Women are based on blood", so it is a must-use medicine for women with irregular menstruation and abdominal pain caused by blood stasis after childbirth. "Compendium of Materia Medica Mengquan" says: "It can remove dead fetuses, calm fetuses, promote blood stasis, generate new blood, and treat malnutrition and dysentery in children." "Compendium of Materia Medica Huiyan" also says: "Motherwort promotes blood circulation and nourishes blood, promotes blood circulation without hurting new blood, nourishes blood without stagnating blood stasis, and is truly a holy medicine for blood." Therefore, it can be used not only for women, but also for all diseases of blood stasis and blood deficiency.

Rehmannia root can clear away heat, cool blood, and promote the production of body fluids. It is a commonly used medicine for treating febrile diseases with body fluid damage, severe fever and thirst, asthenia and bone steaming, and various febrile hemorrhages. Lotus root juice is sweet and cold, and has the effects of clearing heat, stopping bleeding, and dispersing blood stasis. It is suitable for various hemorrhagic diseases. The three juices can be boiled with polished rice to make porridge, which can enhance the effects of nourishing blood, stopping bleeding, and clearing away heat. Since motherwort juice, Rehmannia root juice, and lotus root juice are all cold, they are combined with ginger juice to warm the stomach and honey is added for flavoring.

Motherwort juice porridge can be taken twice a day in the morning, and should be stopped when the illness is cured. It should not be eaten for a long time. When cooking, it should be cooked in a clay pot instead of an iron pot. It should not be used for those with loose stools, spleen deficiency and diarrhea. In addition, the "three whites" should be avoided when eating porridge, namely green onion, scallion and leek.