Millet tastes sweet, salty and cool, sweet, yellow and salty. Millet is the first of the five grains, which nourishes both the innate spleen and stomach and the acquired kidney, and is a good health care product.
Millet porridge is healthy food;
Can be cooked separately, or you can add jujube, red beans, sweet potatoes, lotus seeds, lilies and so on. , make different flavors of nutrients. Millet can be made into cakes by grinding into powder, which is delicious. Millet bud, like malt, contains a lot of enzymes, which is a traditional Chinese medicine and has the function of invigorating stomach and promoting digestion.
Millet has the effects of invigorating spleen and stomach, tonifying deficiency, harmonizing middle energizer and benefiting kidney, and clearing away heat and toxic materials; It can also be used to treat deficiency-heat of spleen and stomach, nausea and vomiting, thirst quenching and diarrhea. "Compendium of Materia Medica" says that Xiaomi "cooks porridge, benefits Dantian, supplements deficiency and opens the stomach."
Drinking millet porridge regularly can warm the spleen and kidney and enhance vitality, which is a good tonic for the weak.
But Xiaomi must not eat together like this:
Millet+almond
Xiaomi can't eat with almonds; It can cause vomiting and diarrhea.
Xiaomi+vinegar
Xiaomi can't be eaten with vinegar; Will reduce the nutritional value.
What are the effects and taboos of millet porridge?
1, spleen and stomach
Nausea, heat dysentery and physical weakness are all related to poor spleen and stomach function. The main function of millet is to replenish spleen and stomach. Sweet into the spleen, yellow into the spleen, millet is yellow, from the taste point of view, millet is sweet and salty, so Chinese medicine believes that millet can "warm the stomach." Therefore, millet is very beneficial to people with diarrhea, vomiting, indigestion and diabetes.
2. Kidney
All grains have the function of nourishing essence and tonifying kidney, among which millet has the strongest kidney function. Millet is cold in nature, slightly salty in five flavors, and salty in kidney, so millet is beneficial to kidney, qi and vitality, which is why Li Shizhen called millet the Valley of Kidney.
Step 3 nourish the heart and soothe the nerves
Drinking millet porridge can enhance the function of small intestine and has the effect of nourishing the heart and calming the nerves. Xiaomi is still worried about being eaten as a diet and health care product to soothe the nerves and help sleep. Chinese medicine often lets patients use millet gruel instead of sleeping pills.
4. Nourishing yin and preventing miscarriage
Millet is rich in amino acids, which helps to prevent abortion, resist bacteria and prevent inflammation in women. The estrogen-like substance contained in millet can nourish yin.
5. Beautiful and beautiful
Eating millet can effectively reduce wrinkles, spots and pigmentation, so it is especially suitable for women who pursue dietotherapy and beauty effects.
Step 6 reduce bacteria
Millet can relieve bad breath, reduce the growth of bacteria in the mouth, and also treat beriberi, neuritis and boils, insomnia, headache, mental fatigue, greasy skin, dandruff and other symptoms.
Millet porridge has so much nutritional value, is it suitable for everyone to drink millet porridge? In fact, some people are not suitable for drinking or should drink less millet porridge.
Millet porridge belongs to cold food, so people with qi stagnation are taboo, that is, people who often feel pain can't drink millet porridge. Also, people with weak constitution and old people who urinate clearly should not eat more millet.
The characteristics of constitution deficiency and cold are: moderate or fat constitution, easy to fatigue; Pale face, lack of porcelain; Small appetite and general digestive function; Usually afraid of cold and like hot, or low body temperature; The lips and tongue coating are pale and white, and the pulse is slow; Introverted personality, like quiet and less movement; Slow action, slow response, easy to get sick; Clear urine means that the frequency and quantity of urine increase, and the texture is thin and there is no obvious urine smell, which is more common in patients with yang deficiency and cold deficiency. If you have the above characteristics, don't eat more millet porridge.
Because the content of lysine in millet porridge is too low and the content of leucine is too high, it is not suitable as the staple food for the elderly, children and postpartum women. Pay attention to the diet when drinking millet porridge to avoid the lack of other nutrients.
According to "Daily Materia Medica", "Millet and almond eat together, which makes people vomit." Therefore, millet should not be eaten with almonds to avoid adverse reactions such as vomiting and diarrhea; The nature and taste of millet and shrimp skin are not harmonious, and eating together will make you sick and vomit; Because vinegar contains organic acids, it will destroy carotenoids in millet and reduce its nutritional value. Millet and vinegar should not be eaten together unless necessary.
Who is not suitable for drinking millet porridge?
People with deficiency cold and qi stagnation should eat less.
Because millet is slightly cold, people with qi stagnation and elderly people with weak constitution and long urine should not eat more.
(1) people with deficiency-cold constitution
The most typical feature of deficiency-cold constitution is fear of cold. In winter, you are wrapped like zongzi, with cold hands and feet and cold back. If you have these symptoms, you are not suitable for eating millet porridge. Of course, if you must eat millet porridge, it would be better to add one or two pieces of ginger.
(2) people with qi stagnation constitution
Speaking of qi stagnation, many people have this experience. You will feel chest tightness when you are angry. This is because bad mood can lead to temporary "qi stagnation". If it is due to qi stagnation caused by disease, people may feel chest tightness and sigh for a long time, which is prone to abdominal pain, diarrhea, belching, female distension and pain, and even foreign body obstruction in the pharynx. Such people are not suitable for eating millet porridge.
Xiaomi porridge eats rice oil, and the nutrition stays in the body.
There are three ways to eat millet: porridge, cooking, grinding into millet powder and steaming. These three ways of eating have their own tastes, but cooking porridge is the best. It can be mixed with various coarse grains to make porridge with different flavors, which has good nutritional and medicinal effects.
Millet porridge is not only delicious, but also nutritious, with the effects of tonifying kidney and benefiting qi, waist and knees, and it is really a good nutritious food. In particular, the rice oil in millet porridge is very nourishing, which is equivalent to the nourishing effect of precious medicinal materials such as ginseng and rehmannia glutinosa.
It is recorded in Zhao Xuemin's Compendium of Materia Medica in the Qing Dynasty that rice oil is "eaten by black and thin people, fat and white for a hundred days, and the function of nourishing yin is better than cultivated land. It is advisable to leave a bowl every day and take it lightly." Wang Mengying, a medical scientist in the Qing Dynasty, thought with great interest in his diet spectrum that "rice oil can replace ginseng soup" because it has the same function as ginseng.
It should be noted that in order to obtain high-quality porridge oil, the pot used for cooking porridge must be brushed clean without oil stains. When cooking, it is best to cook slowly with a small fire, without adding any seasoning. In addition, millet can also be cooked with beans. Millet, purple rice, rough corn, red beans, mung beans, peanut beans and red dates can be cooked together until they are sticky.
Fresh millet is more nourishing.
Because fresh whole grains have the strongest vitality and the richest nutrition, you must try to eat fresh millet when eating.
Compared with fresh grain, the nutritional content of those old rotten millet has been greatly reduced. Studies have shown that fresh millet porridge has protective effect on gastric mucosa and is suitable for patients with chronic gastritis and gastric ulcer, while old millet stored for a long time has ulcer effect. Therefore, the rice used for porridge must be high-quality new rice, otherwise the nourishing effect of millet porridge will be greatly reduced.