Home health porridge

Author: Liu Chenglan
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Publish Date: 2002-01-01
Features: Using congee for health preservation is a valuable experience accumulated by the common people in their long-term dietary life. The great poet Lu You of the Song Dynasty once wrote: "Everyone in the world talks about longevity, yet they fail to realize that longevity is right before their eyes. I have found a simple method from Wanchu, by simply eating congee to reach the realm of immortality." Congee is regarded as a magical method for health preservation and longevity, and there are many folk songs about healing diseases with congee, such as: "To avoid insomnia, cook congee with white lotus seeds; if your heart and qi are insufficient, stew longan in rice porridge; eat more purple eggplant cooked with rice, and jaundice and hepatitis will improve quickly." It can be seen that eating congee for health preservation has deeply rooted in people's hearts. China has always had the saying "medicine and food are of the same origin," meaning that some medicines are foods, while some foods also have medicinal functions. Schisandra not only serves as a Chinese medicine for diuretic and anti-cancer purposes but also as a nutritious grain. Jujube is both an everyday fruit and a Chinese medicine that tonifies the spleen and blood, harmonizes medicinal properties, and mitigates medicinal toxicity. The feature of Homestyle Health-Preserving Congee lies in the congee recipes selected, which start from easily obtainable ingredients in daily diets, allowing readers to make appropriate combinations based on their different constitutions and the properties of various foods, thereby achieving targeted nutritional health preservation.