Corn originally refers to grain, but also refers to millet, barley, and sticky rice. The seeds of the grassy herb millet are millet after shelling. Also known as white millet, indica millet, and hard millet. It is widely cultivated in northern my country. Harvest ripe fruits in autumn, dry them and peel them. It tastes sweet, salty and cool in nature. It can benefit the spleen and stomach, nourish kidney qi, remove irritability and heat, and facilitate urination. It is used for spleen and stomach deficiency and heat, nausea and vomiting or spleen deficiency and diarrhea; irritability and thirst, dry mouth; heat knot in the bladder, difficulty in urination, etc.

Millet is made from the shell of the cereal crop "millet". Because of its small grain size, it is named millet. Corn enters the spleen, stomach, and kidney meridians and has the effect of strengthening the spleen and stomach. It is especially suitable for people with weak spleen and stomach. When cooking corn porridge, wait until the porridge is cooked and cools down slightly. You will see a layer of fine rice fat floating on the top layer of the porridge, which is called "rice oil". It has the effect of protecting the gastric mucosa and replenishing the spleen and stomach, so corn is the most suitable for cooking. For patients with chronic gastritis and gastric ulcer.

Cantonese (Cantonese) also known as "corn" means.

Corn

Explanation

1. Generally refers to grain.

"Guanzi · Qing and Chong Yi": "Therefore, the five grains and millet are the people's orders; the gold knife and cloth are the people's currency."

"Mencius · Try your best" : "There is a levy of cloth, a levy of corn, and a levy of force."

Song Zenggong's "Tang Lun": "If you travel for several years, the corn is cheap, and when you fight for a few coins, you will live there. If you have surplus savings, you will have surplus capital."

2. Millet.

The second poem of "Recalling the Past" by Du Fu of the Tang Dynasty: "The rice is fat and the corn is white, and the public and private barns are both abundant."

Li Shizhen of the Ming Dynasty's "Compendium of Materia Medica·Gu Er·Millet": "Corn, that is, millet. (Smell) Salty, slightly cold, non-toxic."

3. One of the nine chapters of arithmetic. Calculation methods for ancient grain transactions.

"Zhou Li·Di Guan·Baoshi" "Six Days Nine Numbers" Zheng Xuan of the Han Dynasty noted: "Nine numbers: Fangtian, millet, difference, Shaoguang, Shang Gong, all losses, equation, win Insufficient and necessary. "Sun Yirang Zhengyi said: "Corn is used to change the quality of goods.

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