Brāhmin, there are these ten advantages from conjey (rice porridge that is very nutritious that serves the purpose of medicine).
What ten?
In giving conjey one gives life, one gives beauty, one gives ease, one gives strength, one give intelligence; conjey when it is drunk checks hunger, keeps off thirst, regulates wind, cleanses the bladder, digests raw remnants of food.
These, Brāhmin, are the ten advantages of conjey.
To the discerning who gives conjey duly At the right time to one who lives on others’ food, It confers ten things on him: Life and beauty, ease and strength;
For him intelligence arises from it, It dispels hunger, thirst and wind, It cleanses the bladder, it digests food; This medicine is praised by the well-farer.
Therefore conjey should be given constantly By a man interested for ease, By those aspiring to become heavenly beings - like joys Or acquiring human prosperity.
(Reference: Pi Tv Kd 6)
In this Teaching from Gotama Buddha, he shares the benefits of giving medicine as an offering and gift.