In traditional medicine and folk experiences, sticky rice (medicinal name: glutinous rice or sticky rice) has a sweet taste, fragrant aroma, soft and chewy texture, warm nature, and is effective in nourishing the spleen and stomach while preventing damage.
Treating Persistent Vomiting: Use 20g of sticky rice, toasted until golden, combined with 3 slices of crushed fresh ginger, boil with 200ml of water until reduced to 50ml, and consume throughout the day. Alternatively, combine 12g each of sticky rice, dwarf lilyturf, and codonopsis, along with 6g of pinellia and 4g of licorice, and prepare as a beverage.
Treating Gastric and Duodenal Ulcers:
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Sticky Rice Dish (Image: leboutdumonde) |
Combine 50g each of sticky rice, cuttlefish bone, licorice, borax, burnt oyster shell, phellodendron, and millet husk, dry, grind finely, and sieve into a fine powder. Consume 20-30g daily with warm water. The concentrated brew of toasted sticky rice can be used as a substitute for water throughout the day to combat dehydration and thirst in cases of diarrhea.
Steamed sticky rice is a vital food and medicinal ingredient for individuals with weak stomachs, especially those suffering from gastric ulcers who cannot consume regular rice. Pounded sticky rice is an excellent additive combined with various other medicinal herbs for treating fractures. For making pills and powders, sticky rice flour is used as a binding agent in the form of paste.
Sticky rice or porridge made from sticky rice mixed with barley sprout flour in a ratio of 10:1, kept at a temperature of 70°C for 12 hours, then pressed and filtered to remove the residue, yields malt candy; if mixed with rice sprout flour, it results in rice candy. Both of these products are used as tonics for the spleen, strengthening the stomach, aiding digestion, moisturizing the lungs, and promoting lactation.
Plain sticky rice porridge, known as floral porridge, has the effect of “cooling the intestines” for cases of “heavy stomach”; if cooked with pig trotters or hooves, core of bamboo, young papaya, and fig leaves, it becomes a classic and popular dish – a medicinal food that enhances milk production. The broth from sticky rice porridge is also an excellent nourishment for infants under one year old.
Sticky rice bran contains phytic acid, which is used as a tonic to treat edema and choking symptoms in the form of tea (sticky rice bran cooked with red beans and sugar) or porridge (sticky rice bran cooked with Job’s tears).
Additionally, concentrated rice washing water is also used to prepare medicinal herbs, making the medicinal properties of the herbs gentler, reducing heat, and toxicity.
