Peel yam, slice, wash kumquat with salt water, cut into several knives or slices, wash black millet, and pour into the pot;

After boiling, add yam pills and kumquat and cook.

Tip: After the black millet is cooked, you can put some other fruit grains.

Black millet is a kind of food with unique functions of medicine and food. Chinese medicine believes that black millet is sweet in taste and slightly cold in nature, and has the effects of tonifying deficiency, strengthening spleen and stomach, clearing away deficiency and heat, and sleeping peacefully. The porridge boiled with new black millet is an ideal food for lying-in women and patients, which has the functions of stimulating appetite, nourishing spleen and stomach, nourishing kidney and benefiting qi, and tonifying deficiency.

In particular, black millet contains a tryptophan. The tryptophan content in black millet is as high as 202 mg per 100 g, which is beyond the reach of other foods. Tryptophan can make brain cells secrete serotonin and make people sleepy, so black millet can promote sleep, so eating black millet porridge half an hour before going to bed can help people fall asleep.