Cold porridge

Colds are common in cold seasons. Colds caused by colds are characterized by fever, chills, headaches, body aches, stuffy noses, runny noses, itchy throats, coughs, thin white sputum, thin white tongue coating, and tight pulses. Taking medicated porridge in time can help dispel evil spirits without hurting the body.

Shenxian Congee: 6g ginger, 5 stalks of scallion with roots, 50g polished rice, 15ml rice vinegar. First, put the washed polished rice and ginger into the pot and boil for one or two times, then put in the scallion, and when the porridge is almost done, add the rice vinegar and cook for a while. Drink it while it is hot, cover with a blanket and sweat slightly. The polished rice in the recipe can strengthen the stomach and harmonize the middle, replenish qi and strengthen the body, and the scallion and ginger are pungent and warm to dispel wind and cold. Rice vinegar has a killing effect on influenza viruses.

Fangfeng Congee Fangfeng 1.5g, 3 stalks of scallion, 50g of polished rice. First, boil Fangfeng and scallion in water to extract the juice, and use polished rice to cook porridge. When the porridge is almost done, add the juice and cook it into a thin porridge. Take it warm. Fangfeng can dispel wind and cold, relieve external pathogens, dispel rheumatism, and relieve pain. Adding scallion and polished rice to cook porridge complements each other and doubles the therapeutic effect.

Scallion Chicken Congee 500g chicken, 50g scallion, 20g coriander, 25g ginger, 10 red dates, 150g rice. Wash and chop the scallion and coriander, remove the core of the red dates, wash the rice, peel the ginger, flatten and chop it, wash and cut the chicken into pieces. Put the chicken, rice, ginger and red dates into a casserole, add appropriate amount of water, boil over high heat, then simmer for 1 hour, add appropriate amount of water, add scallion and coriander, boil, season and serve. It can induce sweating and relieve the exterior symptoms, and harmonize the Ying and Wei.

Schizonepeta and Douchi Congee: 10g of light Douchi, 6g of Schizonepeta, 5g of Ephedra, 10g of Puerariae, 3g of Gardenia, 30g of Gypsum, 2 slices of ginger, 3 stems of scallion, 50g of polished rice. Put the above medicines into a casserole, decoct in water to extract the juice, filter out the residue, add the juice to polished rice and cook porridge, and take it while it is warm. This recipe has the effects of sweating and relieving the exterior, clearing the throat, reducing fever and relieving restlessness, dispelling wind without hurting the vital energy, and sweating without damaging the yin fluid.

Ginger porridge: 6-9g fresh ginger, cut into thin slices or small grains; 100g-150g polished rice or glutinous rice, 12 jujubes, cook together into porridge, add appropriate amount of brown sugar when the porridge is almost done, cook for a while and then you can eat it. It has the effect of warming the lungs and stomach and dispelling wind and cold.