Who is afraid of cold?
The most typical feature of deficiency-cold constitution is fear of cold. In winter, you are wrapped like zongzi, your hands and feet are cold, and your back is cold, such as loose stool. If you have these symptoms, you are not suitable for eating millet porridge. Of course, if you want to eat millet porridge, remember to add one or two slices of ginger.
Who is stagnant?
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 suffer from chest tightness and sighing for a long time, abdominal pain and diarrhea, belching, breast swelling and pain in women, and even foreign body obstruction in the pharynx. Such people are not suitable for eating millet porridge.
Efficacy and function of millet
Millet has the effect of preventing and treating indigestion. It can make the puerpera's deficiency-cold constitution recuperate and help the puerpera recover their physical strength. Besides being rich in nutrition, the content of tryptophan in millet is the highest in cereals, and tryptophan has the function of regulating sleep. Chinese medicine believes that millet is sweet and salty, and has the effects of clearing away heat and quenching thirst, invigorating stomach and removing dampness, and calming the stomach. Cooking porridge with millet and taking it before going to bed can easily make people fall asleep.
Millet enters the spleen, stomach and kidney meridians, which has the function of strengthening spleen and stomach, and is especially suitable for people with weak spleen and stomach. When cooking millet porridge, the porridge is cooled and precipitated slightly after cooking, and you can see a delicate and sticky substance floating on the top layer of porridge, which is porridge oil, which has the effects of protecting gastric mucosa and tonifying spleen and stomach, and is most suitable for patients with chronic gastritis and gastric ulcer.
The estrogen-like substance contained in millet can nourish yin.
Vitamin B2 contained in millet can prevent male scrotal skin from exudation, erosion and desquamation. Prevent female perineal pruritus, labial dermatitis and leucorrhea. Vitamin B2 supplementation in pregnant women can avoid fetal skeletal malformation. Maintaining vitamin B2 needed by human body can maintain normal growth and fertility.
The zinc contained in millet is a trace element to maintain the health of gonads, which can make the sexual organs and secondary sexual characteristics develop healthily. Make men erect hard, the sperm count is normal, and the prostate is not swollen; Make women's menstruation and sexual desire normal; Make the pregnant fetus develop soundly, not teratogenic and grow normally.