In spring, the diet should focus on nourishing the liver and spleen, eat less acidic food, and eat more sweet food to prevent excessive liver qi. It is best to drink more porridge that nourishes the liver and spleen. If you don't know how to make it, you can learn from me the following 8 types of porridge, which are nutritious, delicious, and gently tonify the liver and spleen.
Red Date and Peanut Porridge
Ingredients: 30-50g each of red dates, peanuts, rock sugar
Method: Wash the red dates and peanuts and set aside. Place the peanuts in a clay pot, add an appropriate amount of water, and simmer for 1 hour. Then add the red dates and simmer for another 30 minutes. Adjust with rock sugar to finish.
Effects: Has the effects of strengthening the spleen, replenishing qi, and nourishing the liver. It is suitable for patients with acute or chronic hepatitis, or liver cirrhosis with elevated serum transaminase. Alternatively, cooking a thick porridge with red dates and rice daily has a good therapeutic effect for hepatitis.
Red Date, Pumpkin, and Oatmeal Porridge
Ingredients: 1 packet of instant oatmeal, 5 red dates, 1 piece of pumpkin, 2-3 pieces of rock sugar
Method: Peel the pumpkin, slice it, then cut into small dice. Halve the red dates. Cook with rock sugar until boiling, then pour in the oatmeal and stir with a spoon. Simmer over low heat for 1 more minute. Add some corn chips from the supermarket when eating, or add milk according to personal preference, served with an egg.
Effects: Pumpkin is sweet and warm in nature, and has long been praised as a "good product for lowering blood sugar and lipids." For diabetics, eating this regularly can not only satisfy hunger but also lower blood sugar and lipids, replenish the middle jiao (spleen and stomach), clear heat, and detoxify. Red dates nourish blood and beautify the skin, and oatmeal is low-fat and healthy, so you don't have to worry about calories when eating.
Chinese Yam and Coix Seed Porridge
Ingredients: 30g Chinese yam, 30g coix seed, 15g lotus seed (with core removed), 10 red dates, 50-100g millet, a little white sugar (rock sugar).
Method: Cook the Chinese yam, coix seed, lotus seed, red dates, and millet together to make porridge. After the porridge is cooked, add a little white sugar.
Effects: Chinese yam tonifies the spleen, replenishes qi, and nourishes yin. Coix seed clears heat, promotes urination to drain dampness, and strengthens the spleen. This porridge strengthens the spleen and replenishes qi. It is suitable for symptoms of spleen deficiency, such as poor appetite, abdominal bloating, loose stools, and limb weakness.
Hyacinth Bean and Millet Porridge
Ingredients: 30g hyacinth beans, 50g millet
Method: First, chop the hyacinth beans. Marinate them with salt for about half an hour to let them absorb the flavor. Then, cook them with millet to make porridge.
Effects: This porridge can regulate the spleen and warm the stomach, raise the clear and lower the turbid, remove dampness to stop diarrhea, and nourish the kidneys and benefit the intestines.
Lotus Seed Powder Porridge
Ingredients: 30g peeled lotus seed with core, 30g longan pulp, 50g japonica rice
Method: First, grind the lotus seeds into a powder and mix with water to form a paste. Cook the japonica rice until it is 70% done. Then add the lotus seed paste and longan pulp to the porridge. Add rock sugar and simmer over low heat for 10-15 minutes before serving.
Effects: This porridge can clear heat, nourish the liver and blood, calm the mind, and secure essence.
Duck Blood and Carp White Rice Porridge
Ingredients: 100g duck blood, 100g carp, 100g white rice
Method: Take the duck blood, carp, and white rice to cook and eat as porridge.
Effects: As the saying goes, "to nourish liver blood, eat duck blood." Duck blood is neutral in nature and nutritious. The liver governs storing blood. This porridge can nourish liver blood, help treat anemia, and also help liver cancer patients protect their liver.
Cassia Seed Porridge
Ingredients: 10g cassia seeds, 60g rice, a small amount of rock sugar.
Method: First, add water to the cassia seeds and simmer to extract the juice. Then use the juice to cook with the rice. After the porridge is cooked, add rock sugar to finish.
Effects: This porridge clears the liver, brightens the eyes, and promotes bowel movements. It is suitable for red and swollen eyes, sensitivity to light with excessive tearing, hypertension, hyperlipidemia, and habitual constipation.
Goji Berry and Beef Liver Soup
Main ingredients: 500g beef liver
Supplementary ingredients: 100g oyster mushrooms, 50g carrots, 100g fresh shiitake mushrooms, 100g spinach, 30g vermicelli, 10g goji berries
Seasonings: 5g soy sauce, 3g salt, 10g cooking wine
Method
1. Place goji berries in a clay pot, add water, and simmer over low heat to extract the liquid. Filter out the dregs and keep the juice for later use.
2. Wash and slice the beef liver, oyster mushrooms, shiitake mushrooms, and carrots.
3. Soak the vermicelli until soft and cut into sections.
4. Wash the spinach and set aside.
5. Place soup in a pot, add carrot slices.
6. After boiling, add oyster mushrooms, goji berry juice, soy sauce, salt, and wine.
7. After it boils again, add beef liver, vermicelli, shiitake mushrooms, and spinach. Cook until done.
Effects: This soup clears the liver, brightens the eyes, and promotes bowel movements.