Cinnamon & Plantain Rice Porridge
Ingredients
- Cinnamon bark 5 g
- Plantain herb (cheqiancao) 30 g
- Polished rice 30 g
- Brown sugar to taste
Principle
Cinnamon warms and tonifies lower yuan; plantain promotes urination and relieves stranguria. Warms kidney yang and opens water pathways in kidney-yang decline patterns (syndrome differentiation required).
Effects & uses
For obstructed or dribbling urination, straining to void, weak knees, with split stream (syndrome differentiation required).
Method
- Decoct cinnamon and plantain; strain; cook rice into porridge in the liquid; add brown sugar.
How to use
- Eat warm on an empty stomach.
Caution
Contraindicated if damp-heat is exuberant (yellow greasy tongue, burning urine). Food-care only.
Source
HIT Campus Hospital BPH dietotherapy compilation. To be manually verified.