Millet has the effects of harmonizing the middle, benefiting the kidneys, removing heat and detoxifying. Job’s tears have the effect of inducing water and seeping dampness (promoting the flow of water to get rid of dampness), strengthening the spleen and stopping diarrhea, removing paralysis, clearing heat and draining pus, and so on.
Millet and Job’s Tears are both medicinal and foodstuffs, and can be used as ingredients as well as medicinal herbs. Millet is sweet and salty. The main spleen and stomach deficiency heat; regurgitation and vomiting; abdominal fullness and less food; thirst; diarrhea and dysentery; burns and fire injuries. It should not be eaten with almonds, which can cause vomiting and diarrhea.
Job’s tears clinically used in the treatment of edema, urinary incontinence (urinary incontinence), diarrhea spleen deficiency, damp paralysis contracture (dampness and other causes of joints, muscles, pain in the lead, activity is not conducive), lung carbuncle, carbuncle (carbuncle occurs in the bowels of the carbuncle, fever, right abdominal pain, can feel the lump as a manifestation of) and other diseases. Spleen deficiency without dampness, dry stools and pregnant women should be taken with caution.
As a medicine, the adverse effects of millet and barley are not clear. Patients with diseases are recommended to consult a doctor in time, under the guidance of clinicians to rationalize the use of medication, so as not to delay the condition.