Nutritious Congee Recipes

Summer Cold Porridges
TCM considers summer heat the main qi of summer. Summer colds, besides regular cold symptoms, often include heat pathogen characteristics: high fever, thirst, sweating; damages fluids and qi causing irritability, chest oppression, yellow scant urine, fatigue; often combined with dampness causing limb fatigue, heavy body, chest oppression, nausea, loose stools. Several porridge formulas:
Gypsum & Bamboo Leaf Porridge: Gypsum 60g, bamboo leaf 15g, rice 50g, sugar. Simmer gypsum and bamboo leaf for juice, cook with rice to thin porridge, add sugar. 2-3 times daily. Clears heat, relieves summer heat, quenches thirst.
Lotus Leaf Porridge: Fresh lotus leaf 1, rice 100g, rock sugar. Shred leaf, simmer for juice. Cook rice to porridge, add lotus juice and sugar. 1-2 times daily. Clears summer heat, eliminates dampness, benefits qi, releases exterior.
Mung Bean Porridge: Mung bean 50g, rice 100g, sugar. Soak mung bean half day, cook with rice to thin porridge, add sugar. 1-2 times daily. Cool-acrid clears summer heat, eliminates dampness, releases exterior.
Agastache & Eupatorium Porridge: Fresh agastache 15g, eupatorium 10g, rice 100g, sugar. Simmer herbs for juice. Cook rice to porridge, add herb juice and sugar. 1-2 times daily. Eliminates summer heat, transforms dampness, opens stomach, stops vomiting.
Agastache & Coix Seed Porridge: Agastache 6g, coix seed 30g, mung bean 50g, rice 100g. Simmer agastache for juice. Cook coix seed, rice and mung bean to porridge, add herb juice. 1-2 times daily. Releases exterior, transforms dampness, clears summer heat, benefits qi.