Traditional Chinese medicine believes that black rice has significant medicinal value, and ancient agricultural medical books record that black rice "nourishes yin and tonifies kidney,

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Strengthening body, warming stomach, improving eyesight, promoting blood circulation, clearing liver and moistening intestines, promoting diuresis, replenishing essence, moistening lung and relaxing tendons, etc. Can be used as medicine, and has particularly good curative effect on dizziness, anemia, gray hair, soreness of waist and knees, night blindness and tinnitus. Long-term consumption can prolong life. Therefore, people commonly call it "medicated rice" and "longevity rice". Because it is most suitable for pregnant women and parturients to replenish blood, it is also called "moon rice" and "blood rice". Emperors of past dynasties also regarded it as the treasure of palace health preservation and called it "Gong Mi".

Modern medicine has proved that black rice has the effects of nourishing yin and tonifying kidney, invigorating spleen and warming liver, invigorating spleen and regulating stomach, benefiting qi and promoting blood circulation, nourishing liver and improving eyesight. Regular consumption of black rice is beneficial to the prevention and treatment of dizziness, anemia, gray hair, eye diseases, soreness of waist and knees, lung dryness and cough, constipation, dysuria, kidney deficiency and edema, loss of appetite, weakness of spleen and stomach, etc. Because the nutrients contained in black rice are mostly concentrated in the black cortex, it is not suitable for finishing. It is best to eat brown rice or standard third-class rice. According to nutrition expert Li, the vigor index of black rice is 7.702 1, and the food disease prevention index is 36.05, which has strong health care function.

Inorganic salts such as manganese, zinc and copper in black rice are mostly 1~3 times higher than those in rice. It also contains special ingredients such as vitamin C, chlorophyll, anthocyanin, carotene and cardiac glycoside that rice lacks, so black rice is more nutritious than ordinary rice. Eating more black rice has the functions of appetizing, invigorating the spleen, warming the liver, improving eyesight, promoting blood circulation, smoothing qi and replenishing essence, and has a good nourishing effect on juvenile gray hair, women's postpartum physical weakness, post-illness physical weakness, anemia and kidney deficiency.

Black rice has a tough seed coat outside, which is not easy to boil, so black rice should be soaked for one night before cooking. If black rice porridge is not cooked, not only most of the signature nutrients can not be dissolved, but also it is easy to cause acute gastroenteritis if eaten too much, especially for children with weak digestive function, the elderly and patients. So people with indigestion should not eat uncooked black rice. People with weak digestive ability after illness should not eat black rice in a hurry, but eat purple rice for conditioning.