Water Chestnut Porridge

The benefits of water chestnut porridge

Indications: Suitable for treating Yin damage due to fever, thirst caused by loss of body fluid, Yin deficiency and lung heat, cough with excessive sputum, indigestion, bloody diarrhea and metrorrhagia, etc.

Explanation of the meaning of porridge: Water chestnut, also known as black taro, water chestnut and ground millet, is the bulb of the water chestnut of the Cyperaceae plant, which is produced in southern my country.

According to traditional Chinese medicine, water chestnuts are sweet and cold in nature, and enter the lung and stomach meridians. They have the functions of clearing heat and nourishing yin, promoting fluid and quenching thirst, and eliminating stagnation and resolving phlegm. This product is juicy in nature, cold in nature and clears heat, and has many effects on heat diseases that damage yin, thirst caused by fluid damage, dry lung cough, etc. "Compendium of Materia Medica" says that it "treats bloody diarrhea, hemorrhage, and hemorrhage." "New Materia Medica" says that it "clears the heart and reduces fire, nourishes the lungs and cools the liver, digests food and resolves phlegm, breaks up stagnation, and promotes pus and blood." Cook porridge and eat it, it nourishes yin and promotes fluid, moistens the lungs and resolves phlegm, and is very effective for dry lungs, coughs caused by lung yin deficiency, coughs with little and sticky sputum, chest pain, etc. If you add some Ophiopogon japonicus, pear juice, fresh lotus root juice, etc. when cooking, the effect will be better.

Note:

1. This product is sweet and cold, so it should be used with caution by those with spleen and stomach deficiency and blood deficiency;

2. This product is easily infected with ginger leafworms when eaten raw, so it is better to eat it cooked. If it must be eaten raw, it should be fully soaked, scrubbed clean, scalded with boiling water, and peeled before eating, so as to avoid infection with ginger leafworms.