I looked at the prescription again, and it really shouldn't be! There is nothing special about the patient's condition. Why is the curative effect of ordinary spleen and stomach conditioning always poor? After puzzling, I still took out my "stupid method" and asked the patients one by one the specific diet recipes every day to further find the cause.
"Dr. Zhu, I have a bowl of millet porridge every morning, and I also put red dates, lotus plums and yam in it." The patient said.
"Let's pause the millet porridge first!" I found the reason for my long cure at once.
"Why? Dr. Zhu, doesn't Chinese medicine say that millet porridge nourishes the stomach? " The patient asked.
"Then I ask you, do you know what kind of millet Chinese medicine is talking about? Do you know what effect Xiaomi has? " I asked with a smile.
"I don't know? Isn't there only one kind of millet bought online? Doesn't millet nourish the stomach? ..................................................................................................................................................................................
To discuss whether millet nourishes the stomach, we must first find out what kind of crops "millet" refers to. If Chinese medicine says that millet nourishes the stomach, what exactly is millet referred to by Chinese medicine? In fact, what kind of rice is Xiaomi porridge? Few people can make it clear. There are many titles such as millet, yellow millet and glutinous rice on the Internet, which makes people confused. However, according to the shape of millet, the Chinese herbal medicine that can match it is called "Zanmi", but whether Zanmi is millet is not authoritative.
I looked up the internet, and the internet thought that millet is glutinous rice, but what kind of rice is millet, the internet did not give an answer. Here, I want to spit out that the development of the network brings not the convenience of knowledge, but a lot of useless information and the same answers. I used "millet+glutinous rice" as a keyword to search for at least five articles about millet, all of which are the same answer, word for word, but unfortunately, the source of this only answer turned out to be an unreliable health article, so the conclusion of the Internet has almost no reference value. However, one thing is certain. The glutinous rice refers to the set aria italica var. germanica (mill.) schred, which is a kind of "chestnut".
Then I used "Xiaomi" as the key word to search, but something helpless happened. Because "Xiaomi" is a well-known electronic brand, I spent a lot of effort to find the information about "grain crop Xiaomi". Results The term "millet" displayed on the Internet also refers to set aria italica var. germanica (mill.) schred, which is a kind of "chestnut".
Therefore, according to the data on the internet, the result is inferred: Xiaomi = Zanmi.
I went to the domestic paper platform to search again, and found that there are few professional papers to study whether glutinous rice is equal to millet, so there is no clear conclusion in the academic field of traditional Chinese medicine.
Because there is really no reliable basis to determine whether millet is glutinous rice in traditional Chinese medicine, I analyze the health problems of millet porridge from the perspective of glutinous rice. Although it is not authoritative, it can be used for your reference.
In the Eastern Han Dynasty's Shuo Wen Jie Zi, there was a comment: "Qi: the sticky person of millet, from the grain technique, pictographic, eating and cutting, or saving grain." According to the classification of grains at that time, millet was one of the grains, and the sticky type of millet was called glutinous rice.
The earliest appearance of glutinous rice as a medicine was in the famous doctor's Bielu in the Jin Dynasty, which said: "glutinous rice: sweet in taste, slightly cold. Stop cold and heat, benefit the large intestine and treat lacquer sores. " There is no theory of nourishing the stomach in the records, and it is not certain whether it is the same variety as the glutinous rice we eat today, because the shape of glutinous rice is not described in Bielu of Famous Doctors, so it cannot be compared with today's glutinous rice.
In Herbal Medicine for Dietotherapy in the Tang Dynasty, it was classified as an inedible grain, and it was also recorded that in the north, it was often used to make wine, not to preserve health. From the Tang Dynasty to the Ming Dynasty, there were few clear records of the medicinal value of glutinous rice.
In Compendium of Materia Medica in the Ming Dynasty, Li Shizhen deduced that glutinous rice was yellow rice according to the historical evolution of characters. At that time, glutinous rice was commonly known as glutinous millet, and northerners called glutinous rice yellow or yellow rice, which was a sticky variety of millet. At the same time, in Compendium of Materia Medica, there is such a record about glutinous rice: "glutinous rice is yellow rice, which is flat in nature, can't be eaten often, and it is full of five internal organs, moving wind and boring people. According to the "Health Collection" cloud: the taste is acidic and hot, sticky, easy to become yellow and sick, and children should not eat more. " In short, in Li Shizhen's time, it was considered that you should not eat more glutinous rice. Since the Ming dynasty, there has been no more change in the records of glutinous rice.
Today, the glutinous rice is used to be called the northern glutinous rice in Shanghai, and my grandfather wrote it as "northern glutinous rice". I looked up the records of glutinous rice in the 20 18 edition of "Shanghai Standard for Processing Pieces of Traditional Chinese Medicine", and the result was that the records under the items were very simple, and the efficacy was recorded as calming the stomach and calming the nerves, which was used for restless stomach and sleepless nights. I want to emphasize that "harmonizing the stomach" is not "nourishing the stomach", which involves the meaning of "Banxia Zaomi Decoction" contained in Huangdi Neijing of traditional Chinese medicine. I won't go into details today, just reminding you that "Banxia Zaomi Decoction" is to remove both Pinellia and Zaomi after decocting, and only drink the soup juice, not to eat Zaomi itself. I just hope that everyone can know that glutinous rice is not a good product for nourishing the stomach in Chinese medicine.
To sum up briefly, it is really inconclusive whether millet, yellow millet and glutinous rice are consistent and refer to the same thing since ancient times. Today, according to all aspects, millet = yellow millet = glutinous rice. I have personally seen the pieces of glutinous rice in Chinese medicine stores, which should be correct.
The glutinous rice in traditional Chinese medicine has no definite effect of nourishing the stomach, and even it is recorded in many works that "it can not be eaten for a long time, and eating too much has side effects". There is no medicinal material "Zanmi" in Chinese Medicine, and the 20 18 edition of "Shanghai Chinese Herbal Pieces Processing Standard" is only a few words, so it seems a bit far-fetched to say that Chinese medicine believes that millet porridge can nourish the stomach. As for other scientific fields that have different interpretations of Xiaomi, I think it can be accepted as long as it is justified.
Some people will say that there is a custom of drinking millet porridge in the north, but there are obvious differences between the north and the south, and people's physique is also very different. It is hard to say whether we Shanghainese can adapt. One side nourishes the other side. For the south where millet is not produced, people's physical factors should be considered. In the same way, northerners eat much less glutinous rice than southerners.
According to my conclusion after textual research on millet, I suggest that it can be eaten occasionally. For people with poor spleen and stomach function, I don't recommend long-term health care products as daily health care.
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