Eight-Treasure Glutinous Rice Drink

Category: Herbal Tea

Herbal Tea Name: Eight-Treasure Glutinous Rice Drink

Chinese Name: 八宝粳米饮

Formula

6 jujubes, 10 g Chinese yam, 6 g longan flesh, 10 g euryale seed, 10 g coix seed, 10 g white mung beans, 10 g lotus seed, 15 g adzuki beans, 5 g granulated sugar

Main Ingredients

How To Make

First, soak the red dates, Chinese yam, longan flesh, water caltrop, coix seed, white kidney beans, lotus seed flesh, and adzuki beans in water for 2 hours. Place them in a pot and simmer over low heat for 1 hour. Stir in the white sugar, and it’s ready.

Efficacy

Strengthens the spleen and stimulates the appetite. Suitable for children with anorexia caused by spleen and stomach deficiency

Usage

Take one dose in the morning and one in the evening

Commentary

Taking Chinese yam (Shan-yao) as the leading herb, the formula draws on its sweet flavor and neutral property: it travels through the Spleen, Lung, Kidney meridians and works to tonify the spleen and lung, nourish the kidney and astringe essence. Longan flesh (Long-yan-rou) fills the deputy position. Sweet-warm in property, it enters the Heart, Spleen meridians and works to tonify the heart and spleen, nourish blood and calm the spirit. Euryale seed (Qian-shi) adds further support, working to astringe, tonify the kidney, secure essence and stop diarrhea. Among the assistants, coix seed (Yi-yi-ren) (clear damp-heat and strengthen the spleen) while white mung beans (Lu-dou) (clear heat, remove toxins and relieve summer heat). Finally, jujubes (Da-zao) play the envoy role, unifying the formula; its role is to tonify qi, nourish blood and calm the spirit, harmonize the formula and coordinate the herbs. Taken together these herbs strengthen the spleen and stimulate the appetite, in keeping with the spleen and stomach pattern.

Eight-Treasure Glutinous Rice Drink，From *Proven Tea, Decoction, and Soup Recipes for Common Ailments*,Strengthens the spleen and stimulates the appetite. Suitable for children with anorexia caused by spleen and stomach deficiency

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