《养老寿亲新书》曰:“老人之性,皆厌于药而喜于食,以食治疾,胜于用药。凡老人有患,宜先以食治,食治不宜,然后命药”;金·刘完素亦提出“饮食者养其精”的治则,主张“餐精华”以食补之。清·曹庭栋提出了“粥能益人,老年尤宜”的著名论点,并撰《粥谱》一卷,采撷具有保健与治疾作用的粥方计百种,“聊备老年之调治”。至此,老年人的粥养粥治已初具规模,为世人之重视。糜粥益于老人,究其原因有四:一曰,“粳米粥为资生化育三神丹,糯米粥为温养 “The old age pension pro-new book” said: “The nature of the old people is all tired of medicine and enjoys eating. It is better to use medicine to cure diseases than to use medicine. Whereever the old people have problems, it is advisable to treat them first with food, food and treatment should not be appropriate, then the drugs should be ordered.” Jin Liu Su-su also proposed the principle of “the dietary is raising their essence” and advocated “meal essence” to supplement it. Qing Cao Tingdong put forward the famous argument that “the porridge can benefit people, especially the elderly”, and wrote a “porridge spectrum” volume, picking porridge with health care and treatment of the role of a hundred kinds of porridge, “Let’s prepare for the treatment of the elderly.” At this point, the porridge porridge treatment for the elderly has begun to take shape and is of great importance to the world. There are four reasons why porridge is beneficial to the elderly. The following are the reasons: “The glutinous rice porridge is a shengshengsanshendan, and the glutinous rice porridge is a warm culture.