Millet is rich in nutrition, among which tryptophan ranks first among cereals, and tryptophan has the function of regulating sleep. Drinking millet porridge before going to bed can make people sleep well.
Chinese medicine believes that millet has the effect of nourishing the heart and calming the nerves. So millet is also a good food for nourishing the heart and calming the nerves. For insomnia caused by poor gastrointestinal tract, its sedative effect is obvious and it can be used to replace sleeping pills. So some people say that a bowl of millet porridge can make you sleep soundly at night.
Millet has high therapeutic value and can be cooked with lily, longan and medlar. It is a good diet food for aphtha, gastritis, insomnia and other diseases.
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Benefits of millet porridge:
1, spleen and stomach, China has a tradition of eating millet since ancient times. Traditional Chinese medicine believes that millet is sweet, salty and cool, and enters the kidney, spleen and stomach meridian, which has the effects of nourishing spleen and stomach, tonifying deficiency, harmonizing the middle energizer and benefiting kidney, and clearing away heat and toxic materials. It is mainly used to treat spleen and stomach deficiency heat, nausea and vomiting, quenching thirst and 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.
Why can millet make up the 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.
2, Yishenqi said that the effect of millet tonic is not only reflected in invigorating the spleen and stomach, but also in tonifying the kidney. The so-called "people eat grains, and the essence is refined", which means that all grains have the effect of nourishing essence and tonifying kidney, but among the five grains, Xiaomi has the strongest effect of tonifying kidney. Therefore, millet is also beneficial to kidney qi and tonify vitality, so Li Shizhen called it the Valley of Kidney.
3. Rich nutrition. From the point of view of nutrition, seven kinds of nutrients, namely protein, fat, carbohydrates, inorganic salts, vitamins, water and dietary fiber, which human beings depend on for survival, are found in millet, and the contents of each nutrient 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.
Taboos for eating millet:
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.
People's Daily Online-A bowl of millet porridge is good for health.
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