In addition to popular heat-clearing porridges such as green bean porridge, black bean porridge, clam porridge, lotus leaf porridge, few people know about its uses in reducing swelling, cooling, and supporting blood fat reduction…
According to traditional nutrition, not all types of porridge are suitable for summer. Because, besides rice, the accompanying foods or medicinal herbs must have cooling and light properties, in other words, can cool the body, easy to absorb and easy to digest.
1. Uses of lotus leaves
According to traditional medicine, lotus leaves (medicinal name is Ha Diep).
Ha Diep has a bitter taste, neutral properties, has the effect of clearing heat, benefiting dampness, quenching thirst, generating new fluids, stopping bleeding; often used to treat diarrhea caused by dampness, dizziness, edema, vomiting blood, nosebleeds, uterine bleeding, bloody stools, dizziness after childbirth…
The experience of using lotus leaves to drink instead of tea or drinking lotus leaf ash to cool the body, prevent obesity, and treat many diseases has been recorded in ancient medical books such as Ban Thao Bi Yeu, Ban Thao Cuong Muc…
Modern research shows that substances in lotus leaves can significantly help reduce blood cholesterol, treat dyslipidemia syndrome, edema, blood clots, uterine bleeding, and lose weight.
2. Lotus leaf porridge – ‘Ha diep chuc’
Ingredients: 1 fresh lotus leaf (can use 15g dried lotus leaf), 100g rice (or brown rice), enough rock sugar
How to prepare: Wash the lotus leaf, chop it, boil it to get the water (discard the residue) then add the rice and cook it into porridge, add rock sugar, divide it into meals for the morning and evening.
You can also put the rice in the pot to cook into porridge first, then use lotus leaves (with the stem and edges removed) to cover the porridge, continue to cook until the aroma of the lotus leaves permeates the porridge.
Or you can use clean lotus leaves, blanch them in boiling water, line the bottom of the pot, then pour the boiling porridge on top, cover the lid for 5 minutes, then remove the lotus leaves, add sugar and eat during the day.
Uses: Lotus leaf porridge has the effect of clearing heat, detoxifying, strengthening the brain, producing body fluids, lowering blood pressure and lowering blood fat. This is a cool and nutritious dish, very suitable in hot weather conditions.
Lotus leaf porridge is especially good for people who are obese, have high blood pressure, have lipid disorders, urinary tract infections, digestive disorders due to damp heat, edema, people with some bleeding conditions (nosebleeds, hemorrhage, gonorrhea), dizziness after giving birth…
