Food and medicine share the same origin. Some foods, in addition to their nutritional value, also have certain medicinal effects. Insomnia sufferers can also find some common foods with therapeutic effects for insomnia to help improve sleep. What porridges can treat insomnia...
1. Lily Porridge
30 grams of lily, soaked in water for half a day to remove its bitterness. Then add 100 grams of rice and an appropriate amount of water, cook until the porridge is ready. Add an appropriate amount of rock sugar, and take it once in the morning and once in the evening. Lily contains a small amount of starch, fat, protein, and trace alkaloids. It has the effects of clearing heat and nourishing yin, moistening the lungs, and calming the spirit. It is a strengthening and nourishing food and medicine for treating neurasthenia in the elderly.
2. Lily and Red Date Porridge
20 grams of lily, 20 red dates, 50 grams of mung beans, and 50 grams of rice. First, cook the mung beans until semi-ripe, then add the lily, red dates, and rice, and cook into a porridge to be consumed. Once in the morning and once in the evening.
3. Erren Porridge (Two-Kernel Porridge)
Take 15 grams of platycladi seeds and 20 grams of fried sour jujube seeds, and 100 grams of japonica rice. First, crush the platycladi seeds and sour jujube seeds, and cook them with japonica rice into a porridge. When the porridge is almost done, add an appropriate amount of honey and cook for another one or two boils. Take it before bedtime. Platycladi seeds have the effect of nourishing the heart and calming the spirit. Sour jujube seeds tonify the liver and gallbladder, and nourish the heart and spleen. Modern pharmacological research has confirmed that sour jujube seeds have a sedative and hypnotic effect by inhibiting the central nervous system. This porridge is suitable for those with insomnia accompanied by frequent dreams, easy waking, timidity, and palpitations, belonging to the deficiency of heart and gallbladder qi.
4. Longan and Lotus Seed Porridge
Take 20 grams of longan pulp (longan meat) and 30 grams of lotus seeds, and 100 grams of rice. Crush the lotus seeds, and cook them with longan pulp and rice into a porridge. Take it two hours before bedtime. Longan pulp tonifies the heart and spleen, nourishes blood, and calms the spirit. Lotus seeds tonify the spleen, nourish the heart, and benefit the kidneys. This porridge is especially suitable for those with insomnia due to deficiency of both heart and spleen, accompanied by palpitations, forgetfulness, listlessness, fatigue in limbs, loose and thin stools, and a sallow complexion.