The efficacy and effects of millet

In the Tang poem "A grain of corn is planted in spring, and ten thousand seeds are harvested in autumn", the word "corn" refers to millet, so millet is also known as corn, which is one of the major food crops in ancient China, and millet porridge is rich in nutrients and has the name of "ginseng soup". The "corn" refers to millet. What is the nutritional value and efficacy of millet?

Relieve mouth ulcers

Millet is rich in vitamin B1, vitamin B12 and other nutrients, and has the effect of preventing and relieving indigestion and mouth sores.

Sedative and hypnotic

The presence of carbohydrates in millet's rich nutritional composition makes millet relieves mental tension, stress and fatigue. The tryptophan contained in millet will promote a kind of 5-hydroxytryptamine that makes people sleepy, so eating millet often can play a hypnotic role.

Harmonizes the stomach and removes heat

The nutritional benefits of millet do not end there, millet also has a beneficial effect on the kidneys and stomach, in addition to heat, women often eat millet, the spleen and stomach to consider heat, regurgitation and vomiting, diarrhea, body concerns are beneficial.

Strengthening the spleen and eliminating stagnation

Chinese medicine believes that the surface of millet porridge floating a layer of sticky material shaped like oil paste for "rice oil", extremely nutritious. The pot of stewed millet rice, known as "golden powder" and "charred rice" in Chinese medicine, has the effect of tonifying the spleen, eliminating accumulation and stopping diarrhea, and has significant therapeutic effects on spleen deficiency and prolonged diarrhea, food accumulation and abdominal high, and indigestion in children.

Nourishing Yin and nourishing blood

Millet has the effect of nourishing Yin and nourishing blood, so consuming millet porridge can help to nourish the weak and cold body of mothers and help them to recover their strength.

Anti-inflammatory and deodorizing

Millet can also relieve bad breath, reduce the growth of bacteria in the mouth, and cure foot disease, neuritis and mange, insomnia, headaches, mental lethargy, "oily" skin, and increased dandruff.

Supplementary nutrition

Millet is a good tonic for the elderly who are weak and sickly, and all grains and cereals are very helpful for the elderly. Eating millet regularly can benefit the health of the five organs, fill up the fluids, strengthen the muscles and bones, and boil millet porridge is even better than drinking ginseng chicken soup, which is the best tonic.

Benefit reproductive health

Millet can prevent scrotal skin oozing, erosion and flaking in men; prevent perineal itching, labial dermatitis and excessive leucorrhea in women. It makes the sexual organs and secondary sexual characteristics develop soundly; makes male erection hard, sperm count normal, and prostate not enlarged; makes female menstruation and libido normal; makes the fetus carried develop soundly, not teratogenic, and grow normally.