Celery Congee for Diabetes
Ingredients
- Fresh celery 60g
- Japonica rice 100g
Principle
Celery is cool, sweet, and bitter—clears heat, pacifies liver, promotes urination, and supports blood pressure. Cooked with japonica rice into congee, it clears heat, pacifies liver, promotes urination, and supports blood pressure—suited to daily care in diabetes with hypertension.
Effects & uses
Suitable for diabetes with hypertension—dizziness, headache, elevated blood pressure; also adjunct care for liver yang hyperactivity in diabetes (syndrome differentiation required).
Method
- Wash and mince celery.
- Cook congee with japonica rice as usual.
How to use
- Take warm morning and evening; count congee toward daily staple intake.
Caution
Not suitable to eat much with spleen-stomach deficiency-cold or loose stools. Celery contains sodium—use little salt. Daily dietary food care is not a substitute for medication.
Source
Guangdong Provincial Administration of Traditional Chinese Medicine; Anhui Provincial Hospital of Chinese Medicine materials. To be manually verified.