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.

2. Benefiting kidney qi

All grains have the function of nourishing essence and tonifying kidney, but among them, millet has the strongest effect of tonifying kidney. That is to say, 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.

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Eating millet is also taboo.

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 you should eat fresh vegetables and fruits, you 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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