Chinese medicine nutritional point of view, mint porridge has the effect of clearing the throat, evacuating wind-heat, contraindications are not yet clear.
Mint porridge is composed of mint, rock sugar and round-grained rice. In the formula, mint is cool in nature, has the effect of clearing the head and eyes, evacuating wind-heat; round-grained rice is flat in nature, has the effect of nourishing the stomach and generating fluids, strengthening the spleen and benefiting the stomach, relieving coughs and removing vexation, etc.; rock sugar is used to replenish the middle of the body and benefit the qi (treating qi deficiency by replenishing the spleen), and harmonize the stomach and moisten the lungs. The combination of these three ingredients is effective in strengthening the spleen, nourishing the stomach, dispersing wind-heat and clearing the throat.
Mint porridge is suitable for treating wind-heat symptoms, such as patients with wind-heat colds, manifesting as sore throat, red eyes and headache, fever and malignant wind. Mint porridge can be used as a summer heat relief products, middle-aged and elderly people in the spring and summer seasons to eat, can be evacuated wind-heat. It is also suitable for those who are newly infected with wind-heat and have stomach problems.
The adverse reactions and contraindications of mint porridge are not clear at present. Note that mint should not be fried for a long time. Although mint porridge is good, it should not be consumed in excess to avoid aggravating the burden on the gastrointestinal tract.