Making Anti-Dryness Medicinal Dishes in Golden Autumn
With dry weather prevailing, drinking a bowl of porridge in autumn is highly beneficial for nourishing yin and relieving dryness. Here’s a recipe for a simple anti-autumn-dryness porridge called Lily-Almond-Loquat Porridge. During golden autumn, we encourage you to try making this dish for your family—a gesture of care, warmth, and health.
【Ingredients】20g pear, 12g almond, 15g lily, 20g loquat fruit, 50g glutinous rice, a small amount of honey.
【Instructions】First, place sufficient boiling water in a pot. Then add washed lily, almond, and glutinous rice, and bring to a boil over high heat, stirring continuously. Maintain a gentle simmer to prevent burning or overflow. Cook until grains swell and the mixture becomes smooth and creamy, then reduce heat to low. Meanwhile, prepare additional ingredients: peel and dice the pear, cut loquats into small pieces, add loquat pieces and stir, then add pear pieces and continue stirring. Once the porridge is ready, transfer to a bowl, let cool slightly, then add honey. Your Lily-Almond-Loquat Porridge is complete.
【Benefits】This porridge is suitable for autumn dryness-induced yin deficiency, dry cough with little phlegm, and dry skin.
Experts Reveal Nutritional Secrets of Ingredients
Pear: A great health food. Ancient texts note that raw vs. cooked pears differ: raw pears clear heat from the six fu organs, while cooked pears nourish yin in the five zang organs. Thus, raw pears are better for clearing heat, while cooked ones enhance yin nourishment.
Lily: Rich in nutrients including proteins and amino acids. Traditional Chinese medicine records, such as in *Compendium of Materia Medica*, state that lily can moisten lungs, stop cough, calm the mind, soothe the spirit, tonify the middle energizer, and boost qi—offering many benefits.
Almond: High in nutritional value, rich in protein, carbohydrates, trace elements like phosphorus, calcium, and iron. From a TCM perspective, almonds effectively moisten lungs, clear heat, resolve phlegm, and stop cough.
Loquat has a cool nature and sweet-sour taste, benefiting lungs by moistening, stopping cough, quenching thirst, and harmonizing the stomach. Modern research shows that apart from sugars, proteins, and fats, loquat contains high levels of pectin, beta-carotene, malic acid, citric acid, trace elements, and vitamins A, B, and C. Beta-carotene is particularly beneficial—ranked third among fruits in content—which aids eye health for both adults and adolescents.