How Bronchitis Patients Can Use Medicinal Porridge Therapy
"Medicine is not as good as food therapy" has more practical significance for bronchitis patients, because most bronchitis is chronic, and long-term treatment needs the help of the body's vital qi recovery. And the recovery of vital qi requires the supply of oxygen and a continuous supply of food nutrition. In real life, medicinal porridge therapy, vinegar therapy, medicinal wine therapy, medicinal candy therapy, medicinal soup therapy, powder therapy, tea therapy formulas, and so on, have long been created.
Under the many categories of medicinal therapies such as medicinal porridge therapy and vinegar therapy, each category has a series of formulas. For example, in medicinal porridge therapy, there are Bai Xing porridge, scallion white porridge, almond porridge, astragalus porridge, perilla porridge, ginger-jujube porridge, qian hu porridge, plantain porridge, perilla seed porridge, dwarf lilyturf porridge, etc. Bai Xing porridge is lily and almond porridge. You can use 50g each of lily and japonica rice, and 10g of almonds peeled and crushed, cook into a thin porridge, add white sugar and take it, twice a day. It can moisten the lungs, stop cough, clear the heart, and calm the mind.
Scallion white porridge is made by taking 5 segments of thick scallion white, 60g of japonica rice, and 5 slices of ginger, cooking them into porridge, then adding 5 milliliters of rice vinegar, and it must be taken hot, once a day. After taking it, you should cover yourself with a blanket to sweat. It can disperse cold and release the exterior, and warm and free the meridians; almond porridge refers to 15g of peeled almonds, ground with water into juice, and cooked with 50 white rice into porridge to take, twice a day. It can stop cough and calm panting, and move the bowels and moisten the intestines.
In astragalus porridge, use 20g of astragalus and 60g of japonica rice to cook porridge, add an appropriate amount of white sugar, and take it. It can tonify the lungs, benefit the kidneys, strengthen the heart, and fortify the spleen, twice a day; if you need to diffuse lung qi and disperse wind-cold, take perilla porridge. Take 500g of japonica rice to cook porridge, and when it is almost done, add 15g of perilla leaves, cook briefly, and then take it, twice a day. It can not only open and diffuse lung qi and disperse cold and release the exterior, but also move qi and relax the middle; ginger-jujube porridge is made by choosing 10g of fresh ginger finely cut into ginger bits, 3 large jujubes, and 150g of glutinous rice, cooking porridge and taking it twice a day. It can disperse cold and release the exterior, transform phlegm and move water, tonify the spleen and harmonize the stomach, and boost qi and regulate the nutritive qi.
Qian hu porridge is 100g of gorgon euryale seed, 20g of walnut kernel crushed with skin, then take 20 large jujubes, soak them and remove the pits, and 200g of japonica rice, cook porridge and take it twice a day. It can benefit the kidneys and secure the essence, tonify the middle and boost qi, astringe the lungs and calm panting, etc.; plantain porridge is 50g of plantain leaves, 1 scallion white, and 60g of japonica rice, cooked into porridge and taken. It can clear heat and brighten the eyes, and remove phlegm and stop cough.
If you need to direct qi downward and calm panting, and eliminate phlegm and moisten the lungs, you can take perilla seed porridge. Use 20g of perilla seeds and mash them into a paste, decoct in water to a thick juice, remove the residue, then add 100g of japonica rice and an appropriate amount of rock sugar to cook into porridge, and take it twice a day; dwarf lilyturf porridge can remove heat and relieve restlessness, moisten the lungs and clear the heart. The method is to take 30g of dwarf lilyturf, decoct it into soup and take the juice, and cook porridge with 100g of japonica rice, taking it in the morning and evening every day. Under each therapy such as vinegar therapy, medicinal wine therapy, medicinal candy therapy, and medicinal soup therapy, there are also many formulas. If you know a little about traditional Chinese medicine, you can also modify them according to your own objective situation.