1, spleen and stomach, China has a tradition of eating millet since ancient times. Millet, also known as millet, is called grain in ancient times, and it is peeled millet. There are many records about "harmony" and "Su" in the ancient historical materials of China. For example, the hieroglyphics of "harmony" appear many times in Oracle Bone Inscriptions. The Book of Songs, Yellow Birds in Xiaoya, records: "Yellow birds, yellow birds, did not gather in the valley, did not peck me."
"Dajieshu" in the Western Han Dynasty recorded the method of "planting millet in soil" for drought resistance and seed conservation. According to Liu Fang, Chinese medicine believes that millet tastes sweet, salty and cool. Entering the channels of kidney, spleen and stomach has the effects of invigorating spleen and stomach, tonifying deficiency, harmonizing middle energizer and benefiting kidney, clearing away heat and toxic materials, and is mainly used for treating weakness of spleen and stomach, nausea and vomiting, thirst quenching and diarrhea.
"Compendium of Materia Medica" first put forward Xiaomi's idea of "treating nausea and heat dysentery, cooking porridge to benefit Dantian, tonifying deficiency and appetizing". It means that if you have heartburn, nausea, vomiting and other discomfort, you can drink millet porridge to nourish your spleen and stomach. Why can millet make up the spleen and stomach? Liu Fang introduced that Chinese medicine believes that yellow enters the spleen, sweet enters the spleen, and millet is yellow and sweet and salty, so Chinese medicine says that millet can warm the stomach.
2, Yishen Yiqi, Liu Fang introduced that when it comes to the effect of millet tonic, it is not only reflected in invigorating the spleen and stomach, but also in tonifying the kidney. The so-called "people eat grains, and essence is refined", that is to say, all grains have the function of nourishing essence and tonifying kidney, but among them, several kinds of millet have the strongest kidney-tonifying effect. Li Shizhen, a famous doctor in the Ming Dynasty, once said that millet (millet) tastes salty and light, and the cold seeps down, which is also the valley of kidney.
Millet is cold, and the five flavors are slightly salty. Traditional Chinese medicine believes that salty taste enters the kidney, so millet is also beneficial to the kidney to replenish qi and vitality, so Li Shizhen called it the Valley of Kidney.
3, nourishing the heart and calming the nerves, Chinese medicine believes that Xiaomi has the effect of nourishing the heart and calming the nerves. So millet is also a good food for nourishing the heart and calming the nerves. For insomnia caused by poor gastrointestinal tract, its sedative effect is obvious and it can be used to replace sleeping pills. So some people say that a bowl of millet porridge can make you sleep soundly at night.
4. Rich in nutrition. According to Liu Fang, from the point of view of nutrition, seven nutrients, namely protein, fat, carbohydrates, inorganic salts, vitamins, water and dietary fiber, are found in millet, and the content of each nutrient is relatively balanced, and there is no phenomenon that some nutrients are extremely high or extremely lacking.
Therefore, regular consumption of millet can provide all-round nutrition for the body. In addition, the digestibility of protein in millet is 83.4%, which contains eight essential amino acids needed by human body. The fats contained are all high-quality fats with a digestibility of 90.8%, mainly unsaturated fatty acids, which play an important role in preventing and treating arteriosclerosis, reducing cardiovascular and cerebrovascular diseases, lowering blood pressure and resisting cancer.
The carbohydrate in millet is mainly starch (about 70%), which is converted into glucose for use by the body under the action of enzymes, and the digestibility is 99.4%. At the same time, millet is rich in vitamins B 1 and B2. Vitamin B2 can promote the body's metabolism and protect skin health. If you can eat millet regularly, it will have a dietotherapy effect on diabetes, cardiovascular and cerebrovascular diseases, skin diseases and other diseases.
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Taboos for eating millet
Although millet has many benefits to health, how to fully absorb its essence still needs attention. According to Liu Fang, because millet is slightly cold, people with deficiency cold and qi stagnation should eat less millet. Besides, old rotten millet can't be eaten. Just as we should eat fresh vegetables and fruits, we must also choose fresh millet.
Studies have shown that fresh millet porridge has protective effect on gastric mucosa, while old millet stored for a long time has ulcer effect. Therefore, you must use good quality new rice when eating millet, otherwise the nourishing effect of millet will be greatly reduced.
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