Rice is one of the indispensable ingredients in our three daily meals. However, in addition to white rice, there are different types of cereal grains that also have separate effects, as beneficial to health as rice grains.
Kidney-healthy cereal: Millet
Traditional Chinese medicine believes that millet has the function of nourishing kidney qi, clearing heat, clearing urine, and curing sperm. Eating millet porridge regularly can nourish the spirit and prolong life.
In addition, when cooking millet porridge, you can simmer millet with different coarse grains to form porridge with diverse flavors, which has a very good health-promoting effect.
However, millet has cool properties, people with stagnant air and weak spleen should not use too much.
Millet is both cheap and can be processed into many laxatives. (Illustration).
Digestive and laxative cereals: Barley seeds
Barley seeds are famous for their cooling effect. With a variety of uses, from whole barley, raw barley, hulled barley, and barley flour, this cereal is a great source of fiber, manganese, molybdenum and selenium, vitamin B1, phosphorus, abundant chromium, magnesium and niacin. The high fiber content in barley has a special role in promoting gut health of the body. In a 4-week study in adult women, a high intake of barley significantly improved bowel function and increased stool volume.
Another study showed that eating barley helps prevent gallstones and reduces the risk of gallbladder surgery.
Chinese folk experience shows how to use barley effectively: wash the barley, leave it on the pan until the barley grains are nearly browned, lightly fragrant, when the seeds swell, take them out, let them cool and then put them in a jar. Cover tightly, sometimes mixed with boiling water to drink in the morning instead of tea.
Heart-healthy cereal: Corn
Traditional Chinese medicine believes that corn has a sweet taste, is average, enters the liver, kidney and bladder meridians to have a diuretic effect, relieve swelling, help strengthen the spleen, and soothe the liver. and gallbladder. In particular, corn also works to help you eat more appetizing due to the harmony of appetizers. Therefore, people with poor appetite such as children, sick people who have been paralyzed for a long time can eat more corn. This type of cereal can not only make your mouth feel delicious, but also add essential nutrients to the human body.
Eating corn is both delicious and healthy. (Artwork).
Corn is high in fiber, which helps lower blood sugar by slowing down the conversion of food into sugar. This seed helps protect the heart, improve brain function and beautify the skin effectively.
Tonic cereal: Camo sticky rice
Since ancient times, glutinous rice has been famous as medicinal rice and longevity rice. From the point of view of traditional Chinese medicine, sticky rice has a sweet taste, helps to communicate with the spleen and stomach, nourishes the spleen and nourishes the yin, nourishes the liver and kidneys, nourishes the body, warms the abdomen, improves eyesight, and promotes health. blood circulation. Moreover, rice husk contains anthocyanin pigment – has strong antioxidant capacity, has the role of lowering blood lipid, anti-atherosclerosis and regulating blood sugar.
The nutritional value of glutinous rice is worth mentioning because of its anti-diabetic effect. Fiber from rice grains can help glucose (sugar) from the grain be absorbed by the body for a longer period of time. The outer black layer of the sticky rice contains a lot of vitamin E, which effectively moisturizes and restores the skin.
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