As a kind of food, glutinous rice is the main raw material for sticky snacks such as glutinous rice cakes, eight-treasure porridge, zongzi and various desserts, and also the main raw material for brewing fermented grains (sweet rice wine). Because of its unique taste, it can not only cure diseases, but also preserve health. Clinically, it is often used to treat diseases such as cold, stomachache, herpes zoster and wet tires. At the same time, due to the viscosity of glutinous rice, Compendium of Materia Medica records that "sticky glutinous rice is insoluble and should not be used by children and patients", so the elderly and the weak should use it with caution.

Exogenous cold is common in winter. If it is not treated in time, it is easy to induce severe diseases such as cough and shortness of breath. The best dietotherapy for treating this cold is the "fairy porridge" which has been circulated among the people for many years. This kind of porridge has remarkable curative effect and has been circulated for a long time. There is a song to prove it: "a handful of glutinous rice is boiled into soup, seven onions and seven slices of ginger;" Add half a cup of vinegar when cooking, and you can keep healthy when you have a cold. "

The so-called wind-cold type cold is characterized by aversion to cold, fever, anhidrosis, headache and body pain, cold nose (runny nose), sneezing, thin and white tongue coating, and tight or slow pulse. Air-conditioned rooms are commonly used in winter and summer, and western medicine antipyretic and analgesic drugs are not taken orally. If the cold syndrome is wind-heat, summer-heat dampness, physical weakness and dampness stagnation, it is not suitable for this porridge.

Specific methods: Wash 50 grams of glutinous rice, add appropriate amount of water to make porridge, add 7 pieces of onion (about 30 grams) and 7 pieces of ginger (about 15 grams), cook for about 5 minutes, then add rice vinegar (about 50 ml), boil, take it once while it is hot, and cover it to make it slightly sweaty. Generally, it can be taken for 2 to 3 days.