"How Much Do You Know About Food Nutrition" Series: Millet with lily, longan, wolfberry, etc. is a good dietotherapy food

Millet tastes sweet and salty, and is cool in nature. It has the effects of strengthening the spleen and stomach, replenishing deficiency, harmonizing the middle and benefiting the kidney, removing heat, and detoxifying. It is mainly used to treat symptoms such as spleen and stomach deficiency heat, nausea and vomiting, thirst, and diarrhea. Millet is cooked with lily, longan, wolfberry, etc. It is a good food for treating aphthous ulcers, diarrhea, gastritis and many other diseases.

Treat mouth ulcers: Eat Ophiopogon japonicus millet porridge

Take 200 grams of millet, 15 grams of Ophiopogon japonicus, and 5 jujubes. Wash the millet, Ophiopogon japonicus, and jujubes, put them into a casserole, and cook them into porridge, which has the effect of strengthening the spleen and qi, nourishing yin and clearing the stomach.

Nausea and vomiting: Cook Pinellia and millet porridge

Take 150g millet, 6g fennel and 3 slices of ginger. Add 800ml of water to fennel and ginger, boil over high heat and then simmer for 30 minutes over low heat, remove the residue and take the juice for later use. Wash the millet, add the above juice, add appropriate amount of water, boil into porridge, and take it warm. It has the effect of strengthening the spleen and stomach, reducing adverse reactions and stopping vomiting.

Beriberi: Cook lily and millet porridge

Prepare 100 grams of millet and 30 grams of lily. Wash the millet and lily, put them into a casserole, add appropriate amount of water, and cook into porridge. It has the effect of strengthening the spleen and nourishing yin, and relieving athlete's foot.

Insomnia: Eat longan, lily and millet porridge regularly

Choose 150g millet, 15g longan meat, 10g lily, 20g black sesame, and appropriate amount of rock sugar. Wash the millet, wash the black sesame, and fry until fragrant. Wash the longan meat and lily, put them into the pot with the millet, add appropriate amount of water, boil over high heat, add the fried black sesame when the millet is half cooked, and cook together into porridge, add rock sugar. It has the effect of nourishing the liver and kidneys and nourishing the mind.

Treat colds: Drink scallion millet soup

Prepare 100 grams of millet, 6 sections of scallion, and 3 slices of ginger. Add appropriate amount of water and cook into porridge. Take the porridge oil from the upper layer, add scallion and ginger, and cook for a while. After taking it, cover yourself with a blanket to sweat, which has the effect of invigorating qi and relieving exterior symptoms.

This article was scientifically reviewed by Chi Xiaoling, director of the Department of Hepatology at Guangdong Provincial Hospital of Traditional Chinese Medicine, and Qiao Jingfang from the Whole Grain Channel of the People's Daily Health Client also contributed.