Drinking millet porridge has many benefits. Tonifying the spleen and stomach Our country 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." The Great Victory Book of the Western Han Dynasty recorded the method of "planting millet in soil field" for drought resistance and seed conservation.
Millet is sweet, salty and cool. Entering the channels of kidney, spleen and stomach has the effects of tonifying spleen and stomach, tonifying deficiency, harmonizing middle energizer and benefiting kidney, and clearing away heat and toxic materials. It is mainly used for treating deficiency-heat of spleen and stomach, nausea and vomiting, quenching thirst and stopping 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. 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. In life, it is mainly for this reason that women sit in confinement and drink millet porridge after giving birth to their children.
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From the point of view of nutrition, there are seven kinds of nutrients in millet, such as protein, fat, carbohydrate, inorganic salt, vitamin, water and dietary fiber, which are 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, which can promote body metabolism and protect skin health.
Although millet has many benefits to health, how to fully absorb its essence still needs attention. Because millet is slightly cold, people who are deficient in 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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