Cold warms the kidney and eats a bowl of five black porridge.

On this festival, drinking porridge is certain. Drinking porridge for health preservation originated from China's thousand-year-old traditional culture. Since ancient times, it has been highly valued by health experts in past dynasties, and it is one of the familiar diets in people's daily life.

Porridge is not only nutritious, but also an excellent carrier of other nutritious foods. Any food mixed in porridge will become kind and warm, and people will never tire of eating it.

As early as the Ming Dynasty, Li Shizhen, a medical scientist, said in Compendium of Materia Medica that porridge is "extremely soft and greasy, compatible with the stomach and intestines, and a wonderful recipe for eating". Lu You, a famous poet in the Song Dynasty, even thought that eating porridge could make you live forever.

Therefore, in this cold solar term, it is most suitable to drink a bowl of porridge with rich content, comprehensive nutrition, warm stomach and good health.

This is a bowl of porridge mixed with five black medicinal and edible ingredients: black beans, black rice, black sesame seeds, mulberries and black dates. Soak these materials for three hours or one night in advance, and it's good to get up early, whether it's slow cooking with a small fire or beating rice paste with a broken wall machine.

Black beans tonify kidney, promote blood circulation and moisten five internal organs; Black dates tonify the middle energizer, kidney, stomach and blood; Mulberry nourishes liver and kidney, blood and beauty. Compatibility of five flavors, nourishing liver and kidney, harmonizing spleen and stomach, and benefiting essence and blood. They are mild in taste, neither cold nor dry, and are suitable for the whole family to make up for it and prepare for the coming spring.

—— Learn some Chinese medicine every day @20 19/ 1/20