🌿 Folk Prescriptions

Traditional Chinese medicine holds that milk tastes sweet, has a slightly cold nature, and possesses functions such as generating body fluids, quenching thirst, moistening the intestines, clearing heat, promoting bowel movements, supplementing deficiencies, and strengthening the spleen. By appropriately processing milk or combining it with other foods, various “therapeutic milk” dishes can be prepared.
1. Milk Rice Porridge
Fresh milk 250 ml, rice 60 grams, sugar in appropriate amounts.
First, cook rice until half-cooked, discard the broth, add milk, simmer gently until porridge forms. Stir in sugar until fully dissolved.
Consume warm twice daily. Pay attention to freshness; do not let it spoil.
Benefits: Supplements deficiencies, strengthens the spleen and stomach, moistens the five viscera. Suitable for weakness, fatigue, insufficient qi and blood, post-illness debility, elderly frailty, and malnutrition.
2. Milk and Red Date Soup
Milk 500 ml, red dates 25 grams, rice 100 grams.
First, cook rice and red dates into porridge, then add milk and bring to a boil.
Benefits: Supplements qi and blood, strengthens the spleen and stomach. Suitable for overwork-induced weakness and qi-blood deficiency.
3. Lamb Milk Porridge
Lamb 250 grams, ginger 20 grams, yam 100 grams, milk 250 ml.
Wash lamb, cut into small pieces; slice ginger. Place both in a clay pot with sufficient water, simmer gently for 7–8 hours. Stir, strain out undissolved residue, keep lamb broth. Add sliced yam, cook until soft, then pour in milk and bring to a boil.
Benefits: Warms the center, supplements deficiencies, enriches essence and qi. Suitable for post-illness (postpartum) cold limbs, fatigue, shortness of breath. Take in several portions daily, continue for 5–7 days as a course. Avoid taking other medications simultaneously. Best to have millet red date lotus seed porridge (60 grams millet, 10 red dates, 18 grams lotus seeds) as morning supplementary meal.
4. Fresh Milk Jade Liquid
Jasmine rice 60 grams, fried walnut kernels 80 grams, raw walnut kernels 45 grams, sugar 12 grams, milk 200 ml.
Wash jasmine rice, soak for 1 hour, drain. Mix with walnut kernels and milk, add a little water, grind finely using a grinder. Filter through a funnel to extract juice. Pour juice into a pot, add water, boil, stir in sugar until fully dissolved, filter out residue, take the filtrate, boil again.
Benefits: Strengthens spleen and kidneys, moistens dryness, nourishes lungs. Suitable for cough, asthma, lower back pain, and intestinal dryness with constipation. Also beneficial for post-illness weakness, neurasthenia, chronic bronchitis, sexual dysfunction, and elderly constipation. Can be drunk on an empty stomach or as a meal accompaniment.
5. Ginger and Leek Milk Porridge
Leek 250 grams, ginger 25 grams, milk 250 ml.
Chop and crush leek and ginger, squeeze juice through clean gauze, pour into pot, add milk, bring to a boil.
Benefits: Warms the stomach, strengthens the spleen. Suitable for cold-type gastric ulcers, chronic gastritis, epigastric pain, vomiting. Take twice daily, morning and evening.
6. Thickened Milk
Boil milk, add 3%–7% starch or cake powder, lotus root powder, etc., to thicken, add sugar slightly.
Benefits: Suitable for habitual vomiting, regurgitation, and patients needing increased energy.
7. Egg Milk
First, hard-boil an egg, remove shell and white, mash yolk with a spoon, mix thoroughly with milk.
Egg yolk contains not only protein, fat, and vitamin A, but also iron, phosphorus, and other substances.
Benefits: Suitable for iron-deficiency anemia and infants aged 4–5 months needing calcium supplementation.
8. Homemade Skimmed Milk
Boil milk, let sit for several hours, remove the cream layer (fat)—this method typically removes 80% of fat.
Benefits: Suitable for feeding infants with diarrhea, dysentery, enteritis, and other intestinal diseases. Since skimmed milk has low calories and lacks vitamins A and D, other foods should supplement nutrients. After recovery, resume full-fat milk feeding.
9. Milk Tea
Method: Brew tea with boiling water, immediately pour into boiling milk. Whether to add sugar or salt depends on personal preference. Adding tea to milk blends their unique aromas, complements nutritional components, masks milk’s odor and tea’s bitterness, resulting in a richer, smoother taste.
Benefits: Removes greasiness, aids digestion, enhances mental alertness, promotes urination, detoxifies, relieves fatigue. Suitable for patients with acute and chronic enteritis, gastritis, and duodenal ulcers. Also effective for alcohol and anesthetic drug poisoning, acting as a detoxifier.
10. Milk Weight-Loss Method
For athletes needing to reduce weight. Sports like weightlifting, wrestling, judo are categorized by weight class. Athletes must adjust their weight before competition to stay within a specific range. Previously, methods included restricting calorie intake, inducing sweating, and using diuretics.
In recent years, foreign researchers have adopted the milk weight-loss method, with two main approaches: one is the Prokop method—designate one day per week as a milk day, consuming only 1–1.5 liters of milk, 0.5 liters of yogurt, 100–200 grams of cheese, and a small amount of cream; the other is the Carrel method—consuming 1 liter of milk divided into five portions over three consecutive days, along with some vegetables, fruits, and meats. This method reportedly reduces body water without osmotic interference, preserving athletic performance.