Glutinous rice is an annual grasses, and its ripe kernels are glutinous rice, which is sweet and light in taste, and slightly sticky to the teeth when chewed. There are various ways to eat glutinous rice, which can be added to koji to make rice wine; or beaten into fine flour wrapped rice balls; or directly steamed, sweetened, and eaten as glutinous rice; Or beat it into glutinous rice cakes……

Among them, the rice wine dumplings are simple, but there are a few tricks. After the water boils, put in the glutinous rice balls, and turn off the heat when the glutinous rice balls float. After turning off the heat, add rice wine, the rice wine at this time will not be bitter, the temperature is just right, and it will warm the stomach.

Glutinous rice is loved by many people as an ingredient, but few people know that it can also be used in medicine. Although glutinous rice has not been included in the “Pharmacopoeia of the People’s Republic of China”, Jilin, Zhejiang, Chongqing and other places have included it in local standards and specifications. For example, according to the second volume of the Jilin Provincial Standards for Traditional Chinese Medicinal Materials (2019 Edition), glutinous rice can replenish the middle and invigorate qi, and can be used to quench thirst, sweating, and diarrhea. The “Chongqing Specification for the Processing of Traditional Chinese Medicine Decoction Pieces (2023)” stir-fried glutinous rice is called fried glutinous rice. “Yunnan Province Traditional Chinese Medicine Decoction Pieces Standard (2005 Edition)” also includes burnt glutinous rice, which has the effects of strengthening the spleen and stomach, warming and stopping diarrhea, shrinking urine and collecting sweat. Chinese patent medicines such as Xiangguo Jianxiao Tablets, Ganning Tablets, and Digestion Shunqi Tablets are all formulated with glutinous rice to strengthen the spleen and warm the stomach, and invigorate qi and replenish deficiency.

It should be noted that glutinous rice is sticky, so infants, the elderly and people with weak digestion should eat it with caution.