(Last Updated on April 30, 2025 by Amiee)
Today’s food therapy recipe is Five-ingredient Spleen-benefiting powder
, which comes from the Song Dynasty. It has a mild prescription and is suitable for people with weak spleen and stomach and sub-healthy people. It is also the breakfast recipe I always eat.
Five-ingredient Spleen-benefiting powder
is composed of yam, lotus seeds, Poria cocos, coix seeds, and Euryale ferox.
Yam and lotus seeds are sweet and mild and enter the spleen, replenishing spleen yin and consolidating essence and qi, which is in line with the nature of “spleen likes moisture and hates dryness”;
Poria cocos and coix seeds are light and penetrate dampness, conforming to the spleen’s ability to “transport water and dampness”, and lightly replenishing the middle jiao;
Euryale ferox is astringent, consolidating spleen yang and preventing the loss of essence.
At the same time, lotus seeds enter the heart, Poria cocos enters the spleen, and yam enters the lungs and kidneys. With strengthening the spleen as the center, it indirectly regulates the lungs, kidneys and other internal organs, reflecting the holistic view of traditional Chinese medicine
How to make Five-ingredient Spleen-benefiting powder?
Ingredients:
*Dried Yam, 250 g (Buy on Amazon: https://amzn.to/4cv3ch5)
* Lotus seeds, 250 g ( Buy on Amazon: https://amzn.to/42vbZuO)
* Poria cocos, 250 g ( Buy on Amazon: https://amzn.to/42uSRgr)
* Coix seeds, 250 g ( Buy on Amazon: https://amzn.to/44ngF8t)
* Euryale ferox, 250 g ( Buy on Amazon: https://amzn.to/43S7s8a)
Instructions
1. Pour all the ingredients to a wok, stir-fry until light burnt.
2. Make them into powder with a food processor.
3. Pour into a container.
* How to eat
Eat 20-40 g every day, make a pate with boiling water. Or Make porridge with rice.
I usually cook porridge for breakfast. Of course, if you don’t have time to cook porridge, it is most convenient to mix it with boiling water to make a paste.
Spleen and stomach health is the foundation of physical health. Traditional Chinese medicine has always attached importance to the maintenance of the spleen and stomach from ancient times to the present.
This food therapy recipe can be eaten all the time, which helps improve the spleen and stomach function.
