You cannot rely on medications for weight loss and lipid disorder prevention. However, with traditional medicine recipes, you can consume these dishes regularly and safely for long-term benefits.
Mung Bean Porridge 
50 g of mung beans and 100 g of white rice. Wash the mung beans with the skin on and rinse the white rice, then cook them together in a pot to make porridge, dividing it into several servings throughout the day.
Benefits: Detoxifies, generates body fluids, and reduces swelling; suitable for those experiencing thirst due to heat, boils, swelling, edema in the elderly, obesity, and lipid disorders.
This porridge is not only a common dish during hot summer days to cool down but also serves as a medicinal porridge that helps reduce weight and regulate lipid metabolism. According to traditional pharmacology, mung beans are sweet and cool in nature, with properties that detoxify, quench thirst, promote urination, and reduce swelling. Modern studies have proven that mung beans can slow down atherosclerosis and effectively adjust elevated lipid levels. Chinese researchers treated 115 patients with hyperlipidemia using mung bean powder at a dosage of 30 g twice daily for 30 days; after 1-3 treatment cycles, cholesterol, triglycerides, and serum lipoprotein levels decreased by over 80%.
Cassia Seed Porridge 
30 g of cassia seeds and 100 g of white rice. Clean the cassia seeds, roast them lightly, and rinse the white rice. Combine both in a pot and cook until you obtain porridge, dividing it into several servings throughout the day.
Benefits: Cools the body, improves eyesight, promotes bowel movement, enhances liver and kidney function; suitable for individuals prone to headaches due to wind energy, conjunctivitis, decreased vision, chronic constipation, hypertension, obesity, and lipid disorders.
In traditional medicine, cassia seeds (also known as cassia tora seeds) are sweet and bitter, cool in nature, beneficial for the liver, enhancing vision, alleviating constipation, and promoting bowel movement. Modern research shows that cassia seeds lower blood pressure, have antibacterial effects, protect liver cells, improve eyesight, inhibit platelet aggregation, enhance macrophage activity, promote bowel movement, and increase urination. They also inhibit the formation of atherosclerotic plaques, reducing blood lipid indicators such as cholesterol, triglycerides, and beta-lipoprotein.
Hawthorn Porridge 
30 g of hawthorn (or 60 g if fresh) and 100 g of white rice. Clean the hawthorn, boil it to extract the juice, then discard the pulp, add the white rice, and cook to make porridge. Serve in several portions throughout the day; you may add a little sugar for taste.
Benefits: Activates blood circulation, reduces blood lipids, and has anti-cancer properties; suitable for those with food stagnation, loss of appetite, bloating, slow digestion, hypertension, coronary artery insufficiency, obesity, and lipid disorders.
In traditional medicine, hawthorn has a sweet and sour taste, slightly warm in nature, and effectively addresses three issues: aids digestion of stagnant meat, relieves belching and sour stomach, and reduces abdominal bloating; promotes blood circulation; treats diarrhea from various causes. Modern studies show that hawthorn has antibacterial effects, strengthens the heart, dilates coronary arteries, combats arrhythmias, lowers blood pressure, protects liver cells, enhances immune function, relaxes the mind, alleviates spasms, inhibits platelet aggregation, and regulates lipid metabolism.
Chinese researchers used hawthorn extract (each tablet contains 0.06 g of hawthorn powder) to treat lipid disorders at a dosage of 2 tablets three times a day for four weeks, showing a reduction in serum cholesterol and triglyceride levels by 76% and 88%, respectively.
