🌿 Folk Prescriptions

Porridge helps harmonize the stomach and spleen, moistens lungs, and alleviates dryness. Adding foods with both culinary and medicinal value—such as pears, radishes, sesame seeds, and chrysanthemums—during porridge preparation can effectively benefit lung health and relieve dryness in autumn.
Pear Porridge: Use 2 pears, wash thoroughly, cut into pieces including skin and core, add 100 grams of glutinous rice, and cook with water into porridge.
During autumn, dry weather often leads to symptoms such as dry mouth and nose, dry cough without phlegm, and other heat-dryness conditions. Pears possess excellent moisturizing properties. Cooking them into porridge makes them suitable as a regular health-promoting food during autumn.
Carrot Porridge: Use 250 grams of carrots, wash and chop finely, add 100 grams of glutinous rice and water, then cook into porridge.
Carrots are rich in beta-carotene, which converts into vitamin A after ingestion by the human body. This supports eye and skin health. People suffering from rough skin, night blindness, dry eyes, or childhood rickets benefit significantly from eating carrots. Especially during autumn, when dryness causes rough skin, chapped lips, dry eyes, and increased dandruff, consuming carrot porridge offers preventive and therapeutic effects.
Sesame Seed Porridge: Use 50 grams of sesame seeds and 100 grams of glutinous rice. First, roast sesame seeds until fragrant, then mix into the cooked glutinous rice porridge and consume together.
Sesame seeds have a smooth, moist nature and are effective in nourishing and lubricating. They help moisten lungs and liver, enrich essence and promote hair growth, and relieve constipation. Consuming sesame seed porridge is flavorful and aromatic, suitable for individuals with liver-kidney deficiency, dizziness, blurred vision, premature graying or hair loss, children with pale, sparse hair, and those suffering from dry cough or habitual constipation. Sesame seed porridge also contributes to longevity and is particularly recommended as a daily health food for the elderly.
Chrysanthemum Porridge: Use 50 grams of chrysanthemum flowers and 100 grams of glutinous rice. First, decoct chrysanthemum into tea, then combine the tea with glutinous rice to cook into porridge.
Following summer’s lingering heat, autumn still carries residual warmth. Chrysanthemum porridge helps clear summer heat, dispel wind-heat, clear liver fire, and improve vision. It is beneficial for treating wind-heat common colds in autumn, irritability, sore throat, and red, swollen eyes. Frost-resistant chrysanthemum has significant preventive effects on cardiovascular diseases, especially suitable for elderly people with hypertension or coronary heart disease, and can also serve as a preventive measure for healthy individuals.