Black rice and barley with rice

Red bean and barley porridge is a very popular porridge with the effects of clearing heat and detoxifying. When there are no red beans at home, using black rice instead of red beans will also have a good effect. Black rice is also called medicinal rice. It is very suitable for people who suffer from habitual dizziness or anemia. When black rice and coix seed are combined together, it can not only strengthen the stomach and spleen, remove dampness and replenish qi, but also has good nutritional value for pregnant women or people with weak bodies.

1. The efficacy of barley and black rice porridge

Black rice is an excellent tonic, which has the effects of "stimulating appetite, strengthening the spleen and warming the liver, improving eyesight and activating blood circulation, and replenishing essence". It can cure premature gray hair and provide nourishment for pregnant women and postpartum women.

Black rice contains 17 kinds of amino acids and more iron, phosphorus, calcium and vitamins B1, B2, B6, which can regulate human physiological functions and improve the body's blood protein level. The vast majority of people who do mental work have little exercise and small appetite, and are in a sub-healthy state where they have high requirements for vitamins but low intake.

Eating coix seed regularly can remove dampness and strengthen the spleen. If people with spleen deficiency eat it, they can fry the coix seeds first. This way it will not be so cold and will have a better effect in strengthening the spleen. If you use coix seed to make soup or boil water directly, its effect of removing dampness and clearing heat can be fully exerted.

Using modern medical methods to analyze, coix seed mainly contains coix seed oil, coix seed ester, fatty oil amino acids and so on. Job's tears oil can prevent or reduce skeletal muscle contraction and has a stimulating effect on the uterus. Its fatty oil can lower serum calcium and blood sugar levels, and has antipyretic, sedative and analgesic effects. The decoction not only has a certain inhibitory effect on cancer cells, but also can reduce the toxic side effects of radiotherapy and chemotherapy in cancer patients.

In addition to the above, the effect of coix seed is also reflected in beauty. It can nourish hair, prevent hair loss, and make hair smooth and soft; it can make the skin smooth, reduce wrinkles, and eliminate pigment spots. Job's tears are rich in protein-degrading enzymes, which can soften the skin's keratin and are also effective for skin warts, rough skin, and other skin conditions if taken for a long time.

2. Nutritional value of barley and black rice porridge

Job's tears and black rice are rich in nutritional value. When you are hungry, drinking a bowl of them will make you feel satisfied.

Job's tears tastes light and slightly sweet, and is rich in nutrients, containing 52%-80% carbohydrates, 13%-17% protein, 4%-7% fat, and the oil is mainly unsaturated fatty acids, of which linoleic acid accounts for 34%, and it also contains special coix lacrymate; ground pasta is a very valuable health food.

The nutritional value of black rice: black rice contains protein, fat, carbohydrates, B vitamins, vitamin E, calcium, phosphorus, potassium, magnesium, iron, zinc and other nutrients, and is rich in nutrients; it has multiple physiological functions such as scavenging free radicals, improving iron deficiency anemia, anti-stress response and immune regulation. Traditional Chinese medicine believes that eating more black rice can stimulate the appetite, strengthen the spleen and warm the liver, improve eyesight and promote blood circulation, and replenish essence. It has a good nourishing effect on premature gray hair, postpartum weakness in women, physical weakness after illness, anemia, and kidney deficiency. Regular consumption of black rice is beneficial for preventing and treating dizziness, vertigo, anemia, gray hair, eye diseases, and weakness in the waist and knees.