Since ancient times, there has been a saying of "grains and grains, grain as the head", because millet has strong adaptability, so it has always been the "life-saving food" of the people.
Millet porridge is easy to digest, is a good tonic, and is known as "ginseng soup". Many places in the north of our country have the tradition of using millet and brown sugar to nourish the body after giving birth to women.
Millet is also called corn, millet. The sexual taste is sweet, salty and cool, and it belongs to the spleen meridian, the stomach meridian and the kidney meridian. It can strengthen the spleen and stomach and replenish weakness. It is suitable for spleen and stomach deficiency, nausea and vomiting, stool leakage, postpartum and post-illness weakness, loss of appetite, dizziness and other symptoms.
Millet is rich in nutrients, containing protein, fat, sugar, calcium, phosphorus, iron, carotene, thiamine, riboflavin, niacin, magnesium, copper, manganese, zinc, selenium, iodine, and estrogen-like substances. Millet is rich in nutrients such as glutamate, alanine and methionine.
Luo Tianyi's "Treasure Book" Cloud: Japonica corn porridge, thin qi and light taste, yin in the yang, so light seep down, good for urination. This is about the effect of millet light infiltration and dampness, and it is good for urination.
Han Yan (mao) "Medical Tong" Yun: A person is sick, does not take medicine, gives the teaching to specialize in corn porridge, absolutely tastes, ten yu diminished, the rest of the month is cured, this five grain cures the principle. This medical case tells the story of Han Yan teaching people to eat millet porridge to treat gonorrhea and recover after a month. And said that this is the truth of the five grains to cure the disease.
The function of the "Diet Recipe for Living with The Residence" is slightly the same as that of indica rice and japonica rice, and the sex is relatively cool, and it is appropriate for patients to eat it.
"Famous Doctors" nourishes kidney qi, removes spleen and stomach heat, and improves qi.
"Daily Materia Medica" and Zhongyi Qi, anti-diarrhea, cure thirst, and facilitate urination.
"Health and Wellness" said that millet contains estrogen-like substances, which have the effect of protecting the skin and delaying aging.
Dietary remedies
Jujube longan millet porridge:
5 dates, 10g of longan meat, 100g of millet, sugar to taste. Wash the dates, longan meat and millet, put them in a pot and cook the porridge, and add sugar once a day to replenish the spleen and stomach. It is suitable for spleen and stomach deficiency, loss of appetite, poor food, etc.
Yellow millet porridge:
15g of yellow essence, 100g of millet, sugar to taste. The yellow essence is processed well, the millet is cleaned, cooked together as a thin porridge, and the porridge is cooked with sugar, once a day, which can supplement the spleen and stomach and moisten the heart and lungs. It is suitable for spleen and stomach deficiency, limb weakness and weakness, poor food, vague pain in the stomach, lung weakness and cough, dry cough and no sputum.
Millet contains up to 18 kinds of nutrients, containing 17 kinds of amino acids, including 8 kinds of essential amino acids, amino acids can promote the secretion of melatonin in the human body, so eating millet porridge can play a hypnotic, health care, beauty effect. The secret of the longevity of the literary master Ji Xianlin is to drink millet mung bean porridge every day, millet can make up for weakness, and mung beans can clear heat and detoxify.
Millet is especially suitable for people with deficiency, post-illness weakness, and postpartum qi and blood weakness, so the "Compendium of Materia Medica" says: "Cook porridge, Yidantian, make up for weakness, open the stomach", nutritionists believe that millet is "the most nourishing spleen and stomach nutrition and health care rice".
Although the effect of millet is good, but everything can not be perfect, millet also has its food taboos, gas stagnation and bloating, body weakness, urinary clear elderly should not be selected.