Effects of red yeast rice and how to eat it



Red yeast rice has the effect of strengthening the spleen and eliminating stagnation (strengthening the function of the spleen and stomach, promoting food digestion), activating blood circulation and removing blood stasis (promoting the operation of the blood, eliminating blood stasis in the body), and it is used as the main treatment for stagnation of food, distention and stuffiness of the stomach and abdomen (the abdomen feels distended and uncomfortable) and other diseases, which is mainly taken by decocting the soup or grating it into a powder.

Red currant rice, Chinese medicine called red currant, mostly parasitized by the mycelium of Aspergillus oryzae in round-grained rice into the red currant rice into medicine, the medicinal properties of slightly warm, sweet taste, into the spleen, large intestine, liver meridian, clinically used to treat the post-partum dew unclean, stagnation of abdominal pain, bruises, food stagnation (indigestion of food stagnant in the stomach) fullness, red and white dysentery, and other diseases.

Red yeast rice is mainly used to decoct soup for internal use, if used for the treatment of pain in the heart and abdomen, dampness, heat and diarrhea and other diseases, it is appropriate to crush the red yeast rice as a minced, with wine or soup delivery.

The adverse reactions of red yeast rice are not clear, but those who are allergic to red yeast rice should be prohibited. Red yeast rice should be taken under the guidance of a traditional Chinese medicine practitioner, and should not be used blindly on its own, so as not to cause delay in the condition.