🌿 Folk Prescriptions

The rice we normally eat is usually cooked with plain water. But adding a little ingredient during cooking not only gives it unique flavor but also brings health benefits—some call this “health-promoting rice.”
○ Tea Rice
After brewing tea, filter the liquid and cook with glutinous rice. Helps prevent cardiovascular disease, gastrointestinal infections, and aids in weight loss and skin beautification.
○ Mushrooms Rice
Soak mushrooms, slice, add minced meat, and cook with glutinous rice. Helpful as an auxiliary treatment for childhood hives and chronic gastritis.
○ Pig Liver and Kidney Rice
Remove fat and glands from pig liver and kidney, cut into small pieces, marinate with seasonings, place on top of nearly cooked rice, simmer gently until done. Beneficial for weakened liver and kidney function, sore waist and knees, dizziness, and blurred vision. Autumn is the perfect time for tonifying kidneys—Golden Autumn Chestnuts Strengthen Kidneys and Spleen.
○ Red Date Chicken Glutinous Rice
Remove cores from red dates, chop finely. Cut chicken into thin strips. Cook with glutinous rice. Strengthens the center, nourishes the spleen, and nourishes the body—helpful for appetite loss due to weak spleen and stomach or deficiency of qi and blood.
○ Ginger Juice Eel Rice
Wash eel, cut into segments or strips, marinate with ginger juice and seasonings, spread over nearly cooked rice, simmer gently until done. Helps tonify deficiency, strengthen tendons and bones, improve digestion, and enrich blood—useful for post-illness weakness and anemia.
○ Ginger Juice Beef Rice
Chop fresh beef into mince, mix with ginger juice, peanut oil, and seasonings, spread over nearly cooked rice, simmer gently until done. Helps dispel cold, strengthen the stomach, tonify qi, strengthen tendons and bones, reduce swelling, and eliminate dampness.
○ Onion Rice
Boil water first, then add chopped onion, glutinous rice, salt, and cook. Helps soften and expand blood vessels, lower blood pressure and lipids, prevent intestinal diseases, and aid digestion.
○ Pineapple Rice
Peel and cut pineapple into cubes, soak in salt water, then cook with glutinous rice. Nourishing, helps nourish the heart and mind, and prevents heart attacks.
○ Tomato Juice Rice
Sauté onion and garlic until fragrant, add water and tomato juice to boil, then add glutinous rice and cook. Helps prevent cancer, generates fluids, quenches thirst, and aids digestion.