Introduction to the efficacy and function of black rice seed

Black rice seed is a common shrub plant, which is often used as traditional Chinese medicine. Black rice seed can also be eaten directly. What are the effects and effects of black rice seed? Let's take a look at it together.

Black rice seed

Dwarf evergreen shrubs, 20-50cm high, sometimes more than 1 m tall. There are thick wooden roots in the ground, sometimes in the shape of a pimple. Stem Terete much branched, sometimes tufted, branches glandular setose and pubescent. Leaves dense; petiole short, 1-1.5mm long; leaf blade leathery, oblong or elliptic, 1.2-3.5cm long and 0.7-2.5cm wide, apex acute, acuminate or obtusely rounded, base obtusely rounded or cuneate, margin serrulate. Both surfaces are setose and pubescent. Racemes are pseudoterminal in lower leaf axils and apical leaf axils of branches, 1.5-6cm long, with many flowers, biased toward one side of inflorescence; bracts leaflike, sometimes reddish, 4-9mm long, strigose on both surfaces, bracteoles ovate or lanceolate, inserted in middle and lower part of pedicel Calyx usually green or dark red, shortly campanulate, calyx teeth triangular, ca. 1 mm; Corolla pot-shaped, white to reddish, with 5 red veins, long 5-6mm, dehiscent teeth short, triangular, erect or slightly reflexed outward; stamens 10, included, shorter than Corolla, locule dorsally with 2 raised spur; pistil 1, oblate, style included. The berries are round, green to red, purple-black when ripe, and contain many small seeds. The flowering period is from spring and summer to autumn and the fruiting period is from July to October.

Medicinal value

Taste: sweet; sour; temperate.

Functional indications: calm the mind; relieve cough. Attending palpitation palpitation; sleepless night; chronic cough.

Usage: oral administration: fried soup, 9-15g.

The benefits of eating black rice

1. Promoting digestion

With the growth of age, some middle-aged and elderly people with the decline of all aspects of body function, digestive ability is also weakened, leading to indigestion, some are accompanied by abdominal pain, abdominal distension, loss of appetite, nausea, vomiting and other symptoms, affecting their health. People with these symptoms might as well try black rice seed, which can promote gastrointestinal peristalsis, help digestion, improve dyspeptic symptoms, and effectively reduce abdominal pain and diarrhea.

2. Calm the mind and help sleep

Due to the great pressure of study and work, modern people lead to mental tension, and serious symptoms such as insomnia and difficulty falling asleep often occur. For a long time, it leads to mental weakness and affects normal life, work and study. In view of this phenomenon, we might as well eat some black rice, some studies have shown that eating the right amount of black rice before going to bed can help sleep, improve sleep quality, and have a calming effect.

3. Relieve cough

For people who have been coughing for a long time, you can also eat black rice to help relieve symptoms. Studies have shown that eating black rice seed can assist in the treatment of chronic cough and effectively relieve cough symptoms.

4. Tonifying blood

Have you ever squatted for a long time and suddenly felt dark when you stood up? Deficiency of qi and blood and anemia are the symptoms of many modern women. For these women, you might as well eat some black rice. Black rice seed has a good effect on anemia, post-disease body deficiency and other symptoms, can effectively improve the symptoms of anemia, conducive to the recovery of the weak after the disease.

5. Stop bleeding

After the middle-aged and the elderly get older, the functions of all aspects of the body decline, and in some elderly people's daily life, if they are injured inadvertently and there is a wound on their body, they will bleed continuously and the wound cannot be easily healed. Black rice seed can not only be eaten, but also can be used externally, and has a good hemostatic effect, and has a certain therapeutic effect on scald, traumatic bleeding and other symptoms.

How to eat black rice?

1. Direct consumption

Freshly picked black rice seeds can be used directly as fruit and can be washed before eating. Eat 15 grams of fresh fruit in the morning and evening, which can relieve indigestion, abdominal pain, diarrhea and other symptoms.

2. Juice extraction

Freshly picked black rice seeds, cleaned and squeezed into juice with a juicer to drink, taste sweet and sour, very delicious.

After 60 grams of fresh black rice is mashed, take it before going to bed with 60 grams of wine mixed with even liquid, which can relieve the symptoms of limb weakness, fatigue and pain.

3. Soak wine

Pick fresh black rice, if you can't eat it directly at one time, you might as well try to clean it and soak the wine. Once every morning and evening, about 30 grams of black rice fruit wine can effectively relieve rheumatic joint pain.

The above is the introduction of black rice, I hope it will be helpful to you.