Benefits of tofu porridge

Benefits of tofu porridge

(Compendium of Materia Medica)

[Source] It is a processed product from soybean seeds of the legume family.

[Preparation method] Generally, soybeans are used and soaked in water for about a day (shorter in summer). After the beans are soaked and fat, they are ground with water, the residue is filtered out, and boiled in a pot to become tofu slurry. Salt brine or gypsum is then added to solidify it into tofu pudding, which is then wrapped in cloth and some water is squeezed out.

【Nature and flavor】Sweet, cool.

① "Compendium of Materia Medica": "cold."

② Ning Yuan's "Food and Materia Medica": "Tastes sweet and neutral."

⑧ "Suixiju Diet": "Sweet, cool."

[Meridian] "Compendium of Materia Medica": "Enters the spleen, stomach, and large intestine."

[Functions and indications] It can invigorate qi and harmonize the middle, promote the production of body fluids and moisten dryness, clear away heat and detoxify. It can treat red eyes, thirst, and dysentery; it can also detoxify sulfur and liquor.

① Ning Yuan's "Food Mirror Materia Medica": "It can relieve stomachache and replenish qi, harmonize the spleen and stomach, relieve turbid qi in the large intestine, and relieve bloating."

② "Compendium of Materia Medica": "clears away heat and disperses blood."

③ "Medical Collection": "clears lung heat, relieves cough, and eliminates phlegm."

④ "Ben Cao Qiu Zhen": "It can treat stomach fire shock, internal heat stagnation, symptoms such as thirst and bloating. It can also treat red heel swelling and pain."

⑤ "Compendium of Materia Medica": "It can detoxify sulfur."

⑥ "Suixiju Diet": "clears away heat, moistens dryness, promotes the production of body fluids, detoxifies, replenishes the middle, widens the intestines, and reduces turbidity."

[Selected Prescriptions] ① Treating restless dysentery: Fry white tofu with vinegar and eat it. (Puji Prescriptions)

② Treating excessive drinking of liquor, with the body turning red and purple and feeling like dying, but the heart is still warm: cut hot tofu into slices and apply them all over the body, change them when they become cold, and stop when the patient wakes up. (Yao Kecheng's "Food Materia Medica")