Yellow millet is a kind of millet, contains a lot of protein, fat and vitamins, has the effect of benefiting the kidneys, removing heat, detoxifying, and treating deficiency and heat in the spleen and stomach, regurgitation and vomiting, thirst, and diarrhea.

The fibrous roots of yellow millet are thick, the culms are stout and erect, the leaf sheaths are loosely wrapped around the stalks, densely glabrous, dense near the margins and on the abaxial side at the junction with the leaf nymphs, the margins densely ciliate, the ligule is a ring of cilia, and the leaf blades are long-sloped needle-shaped or linear-lanceolate.