Yam congee(shan yao zhou )

Yam porridge method:

Processing steps of yam porridge:

Dry yam tablets 100g, or fresh yam 200g, wash and slice, japonica rice 100g, cooked for porridge. It's suitable for all seasons. Take it warm.

Yam congee

Yam porridge is a traditional medicinal diet, which is made from yam to prolong life, and it is popularly known as immortal porridge. Chinese yam can be used to treat diarrhea, amenorrhea and collapse.

Production method

Practice 1

Take 45-60g dried yam slices or 100g-200g fresh yam slices, wash and slice them, and cook porridge with 100g japonica rice for breakfast and dinner.

Practice 2

Make food

1. Main ingredients: raw yam 500g. 2. Seasoning: sugar.

Production process

Sift the yam and put it into the basin. Add cool water to make a paste. Put proper amount of water in the pot and bring to a boil. Stir and remove the medicinal powder. Cook until it is cooked. Season with sugar. Note: yam is rich in starch, protein, minerals and vitamins. "Shennong materia medica classic" records "Buzhong Yiqi power, long muscle, long service, ears and eyes smart." "Compendium of Materia Medica" contains "benefiting stomach qi, strengthening spleen and stomach, stopping diarrhea, resolving phlegm and saliva, moistening skin and hair". The mucus protein in yam can prevent fat deposition in cardiovascular system, keep blood vessels elastic, prevent premature atherosclerosis, reduce subcutaneous fat accumulation and avoid obesity. Yam porridge is a good food for longevity and fitness.

Practice 3

Food information

Cooking

Original taste

[main ingredient] yam (100g) Japonica Rice (200g)

[seasoning] brown granulated sugar (10g)

[food conditioning] recipe for tonifying deficiency, nourishing body and nursing mother

[category] fast food / staple food

[suitable population] this method is suitable for puerperium.

Production process

Yam slices, rice Taojing, both cooked porridge, cooked rotten is appropriate, when eating with a small amount of brown sugar.

Production tips

If you use yam powder to cook porridge, you should pay attention to use cold water into the pot, and constantly stir during heating to avoid caking.

Practice 4

Make food

30 g yam, 20 g carrot, 30 g rice, 30 g spinach puree, 2 cups water

This method is suitable for infants aged 10-12 months

Production process

1. Peel yam and carrot and cut into small pieces (about 1cm Square).

2. Bring rice and 2 cups of water to a boil, add yam and carrot, bring to a boil, turn down the heat and cook for 15 minutes, then add spinach puree.

Practice 5

Semen sesami nigrum

1 scoop

fruit of Chinese wolfberry

10 capsules

Yellow rock sugar

30g

< I1. < / I prepare glutinous rice, yam, medlar, black sesame and rock sugar for porridge.

< I2. < / I peeled and washed yam, cut into small pieces.

Wash the glutinous rice and put it in the sand pot with yam.

4. Bring to a boil over high heat and simmer over low heat for 20 minutes. Add rock sugar and cook for 5 minutes.

Add Lycium barbarum and cook for 5 minutes.

Pour in black sesame and cook for 5 minutes.

The porridge is cooked and simmered for a while.

< I8. < / I prepare 150 grams of whole wheat flour and dry yeast.

Mix yeast with warm water and pour into flour.

Break in the eggs and make a smooth dough.

< i11. < / I ferment in a warm place.

< i12. < / I the dough is twice as big.

1 < I3. < / I exhaust the dough and divide it into two parts; take two small bowls, oil them on the outside and wrap them with dough; let them grow for 20 minutes.

Put the steamed bread in the pot and steam for 15 minutes.

< i15. < / I take out the steamed wheat bun bowl and fill it with yam porridge.

Practice 6

Raw yam 150g, wash, peel, cut into pieces. 150 grams of glutinous rice, washed clean. First with glutinous rice porridge, half cooked into yam block, porridge cooked can be eaten. It is suitable for diarrhea due to spleen deficiency, drowsiness, weakness of limbs, loss of appetite, dyspepsia, chronic cough due to lung deficiency, spermatorrhea due to kidney deficiency, diabetes, palpitations and night sweats, and women's leucorrhea. It is especially suitable for middle-aged and old people to eat yam porridge in spring.

nutritive value

Yam: yam contains saponins, mucus, choline, starch, sugars, protein and amino acids, vitamin C and other nutrients, as well as a variety of trace elements, and the content is relatively rich, with a tonic effect, it is a good food for rehabilitation after illness. Yam can promote the proliferation of T lymphocytes, enhance immune function, delay cell aging, often taking yam can prolong life.

The combination of mucopolysaccharide and minerals in yam can form bone and make cartilage elastic. It is rich in vitamins and minerals, with relatively low calorie and almost no fat, so it has a good effect of weight loss and bodybuilding. The mucin contained in yam can prevent fat deposition in cardiovascular system and prevent arteriosclerosis. Edible yam can also increase human T lymphocytes, enhance immune function and delay cell aging.

Chinese yam is sweet and smooth, and it is a kind of gentle food for nourishing spleen, lung and kidney. According to modern medical research, Chinese yam contains amylase, choline, mucus, glycoprotein and free amino acids, fat, carbohydrate, vitamin C, iodine, calcium, phosphorus, etc. The amylase contained in yam is called "digestive element". Because it can break down protein and carbohydrate, it has nourishing effect. The middle-aged and old people often eat yam porridge in spring, which has a lot of benefits.

Japonica rice: japonica rice can improve the body's immune function, promote blood circulation, thereby reducing the chance of hypertension; japonica rice can prevent diabetes, beriberi, senile plaque and constipation and other diseases; japonica rice bran layer of coarse fiber molecules, help gastrointestinal peristalsis, stomach disease, constipation, hemorrhoids and other curative effect is very good.

Food Guide

The recipe is complementary

Yam: yam and kansui do not eat together; also can not be taken with alkaline drugs.

Japonica rice: japonica rice should not be eaten with horse meat and honey; it should not be eaten with Xanthium sibiricum, otherwise it will cause heartache.

Health tips

1. This porridge has the function of invigorating the spleen and lung, strengthening the kidney and essence. It can be taken after delivery, especially for those with weak spleen and stomach.

2. Raw yam can be scraped and dried in the shade, rolled and sifted into powder, and cooked into porridge with sugar, which can be eaten in the morning and evening.

Prescription of traditional Chinese Medicine

Drug composition: yam (for the end) 4, rice 6.

Source of prescription: Zunsheng bajian, Volume 11.

Usage and dosage: cooked porridge.

Ingenious use in Qing Dynasty

Zhang Xichun (1860-1933), born in Yanshan, Hebei Province, is a famous doctor in the late Qing Dynasty and the early Republic of China. Zhang has been engaged in medicine for decades. He has paid attention to clinical practice, abided by the past but not the past. There are many original opinions on the understanding of medicine and the prescription of clinical medicine. He highly praised Chinese yam. In his book Zhongshen Xilu of medicine, 49 of 141 cases were treated with Chinese yam. And good use of yam porridge to treat a variety of diseases.

Zhang accumulated ten years of experience, using yam to save the emergency. It is believed that yam can nourish yin and promote diuresis, smooth and astringent, invigorate spleen and lung, strengthen kidney and essence. Among the tonic drugs, it belongs to the "supreme product" and "should be taken more often". His admiration for yams can be described as "unique in love". Yam was called Dioscorea zingiberensis in ancient times. In Song Dynasty, it was renamed "yam" because it avoided the taboo of song Yingzong (Mingshu) and Tang Taizong (Mingyu). Because Huaiqing Prefecture in Henan Province is rich in yams, and the yams produced are the most authentic and of the best quality, it is also known as "huaiqing yam". Master Xichun's medical records of using yam to treat various diseases are numerous. This paper summarizes Zhang Xichun's good use of yam from the compatibility of yam in Decoction and the treatment of yam porridge.

The wonderful use of yam in Decoction

1. Chinese yam was used to treat diarrhea. One man, aged 50, suffered from diarrhea and diarrhea in the summer. He suffered from diarrhea and red color. He fell down with abdominal pain and refused to eat. After twenty years of age, he was faint in spirit and was dying. His pulse was weak, his skin was hot, his heart was hot, and his tongue was covered with yellow moss. So he used Ziyin Qingzao decoction. Ziyin Qingre, Jianyun Lishui, Xie re Bu Xu, kill two birds with one stone. Half a pair of raw yam, one or two talc, six coins of raw hangshao, three coins of powdered licorice, all diseases can be cured with one dose, you can eat and take another dose to cure. The magic of this prescription lies in the combination of Chinese yam and talc, one tonic and one laxative, one astringent and one sharp, one warm and one cool. Chinese yam is warm and thick, which can greatly tonify the true Yin and strengthen the vitality; talc is cool in nature, which is good at clearing the heat of Shangjiao stomach and Fu organs, reducing infiltration and promoting orifices, clearing the heat of bladder, facilitating urination and relieving diarrhea. Li's wife in Tianjin, over 40 years old, suffered from dysentery for three years, that is, slightly more and again. Its dysentery or red or white or red and white mixed, and dysentery and diarrhea, its pulse late and weak. The medicine usually taken should be hot rather than cold, and the disease should be cold. After ten days, the diarrhea has been cured and the diarrhea has been alleviated. Also in order to serve yam porridge, send service raw sulfur

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