Stopping the heat porridge keeping in good health 
 
 
Source: Beijing evening news 

        Li Jie 
 
        Concept of traditional Chinese medicine has a tradition of "medicine food homology". After beginning of autumn, the mother is looking forward to the arrival of the end of heat, she said: "go, heat and thus unring it." Mean over the hot summer, cool autumn is coming. Autumn, the stomach through the summer "fat fat eat and drink," "baptism", is a good time to rest. During the rustling autumn wind drink some porridge, spleen and stomach, not only to fill gas, but also helps us to better health care. 
 
        Porridge, mi, shan, old elixir, etc., the ancient writing jing. All the year round, in dietary porridge, not only can regulate appetite, increase appetite, and can supplement moisture loss. So think since ancient times, make people drink porridge can cure and can prolong life. Since the han dynasty about porridge. In Ming dynasty, li shizhen's "compendium of materia medica" in the list of 50 kinds of porridge. Many books in the ancient theory of porridge, open folk porridge shop also. What's good about porridge? Li shizhen said: "every day, eat porridge a large bowl. Fasting stomach empty, the valley is a gas, the filling is not fine, very soft, and intestines and stomach, most of the diet." Poet lu you still have a "eat porridge" poem: "the world all the senior year, no one spends years now. I have to like high easy method, will only eat porridge to the gods." 
 
        Autumn after the end of heat, increase the intake of water and liquid diets, beneficial to health. Pay attention to eat porridge and system and, nourishing the stomach and the surface characteristics of the diuretic, especially good for the old man and the patient eat, suggesting that porridge for the human body is the most soft food. As for other aspects of the effect. After the end of heat, dry climate, a person's skin and oral easily weather-shack, at this time can drink carrot japonica rice porridge, put the chopped carrots with japonica rice boiled into porridge, often drink this porridge, and jianwei, tonifying spleen and digestion. The wash of walnut meat with japonica rice cooking porridge, can be made of walnut porridge of japonica rice. Autumn ever drink the porridge, not only can kidney, also can prevent disease of impotence, spermatorrhea, etc, and has the effect of anti-aging. A generation of master mei lanfang, often drink walnut porridge at ordinary times maintain skin. If feel poor digestion, still can add in Chinese yam, millet, and cook, to eat the effect is better.
 
 
 
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