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Growing, useful properties and application recipes of millet


Botanical characteristics of millet

Millet – a low annual herb with fibrous roots that penetrate 1.5 m into the soil. Plant stems are cylindrical, with many nodes, branching from the root. Hollow stems are once the leaves are green or red. Plants inflorescence – panicle with spikelets at the ends of branches of two colors. Each spikelet has 2 flower: one bisexual, and the second a neutral or staminate. The fruit of the plant – weevil, oval or round, but sometimes oblong. Weevil is white, red, yellow and other colours.

This plant does not grow wild. It is grown in Eurasia.


The cultivation of millet

Millet is grown only from seed. Sowing the seeds produced in dry soil. Sowing the seeds, they rolled down the rollers to the soil is warmed and the moisture from the lower layers took the upper layers of the soil – this will lead to a rapid emergence. Before sowing, seeds can be soaked for 2-3 days, in order to emerge a week before the deadline. Millet at the stage of vegetation is very slow growing, but the weeds are growing much faster, so the millet to grow in the field, cleaned from weeds. Maturation of plants is in the middle of summer.

Millet is very good to fertilization. It is best for the cultivation of millet suitable for black soil. In the period of intensive growth of millet in need of nitrogen fertilizers. In order for the plant to be strong, it needs regular watering.

Useful properties and applications of millet

Millet is a diuretic and diaphoretic properties, so it is used in the treatment of hydrocephalus. Due to the content in pross manganese, copper, protein and potassium it is used for anemia. The magnesium contained in the plant, dilates blood vessels, so it is used for high blood pressure. Millet is able to excrete residues of antibiotics, protecting intestinal mucosa from exposure to them. The plant is a tool which slows the growth of tumors. Millet is used for fractures in the presence of RAS.

Traditional medicine applies a little millet, although it gives the body strength, strengthens it. The plant is useful for people who are sick with psoriasis, diabetes mellitus, atherosclerosis . Milletused in medical diets.

Millet with pancreatic disease and pancreatitis. Take a Cup of millet and rinse it. Place the corn in an enamel bowl and pour two liters of water. Put on the fire until cooked millet. Grate 1 Cup of pumpkin and add to the porridge of millet. Support 20 more minutes on the fire and add salt, a tablespoon of olive oil, then remove the tool from heat. This porridge should be consumed instead of dinner. This porridge will remove the inflammation in the pancreas. The same drug can be used in "night blindness".

Millet in the tumor. Take 1 tablespoon of millet and mix with the same quantity of chopped straw. All pour 500 ml of water, put on fire to boil and keep for 15 minutes on the fire. Remove the composition from the heat and leave to infuse for 2 hours in the heat in a sealed container. Broth drink warm 100 ml three times a day.

Millet in the sinus. You need to take millet and bake on the griddle. Warm burnt millet should be stored in the pouch and attach to the maxillary sinus.

Broth conjunctivitis. Take 1 tablespoon of millet and give him a good wash. Pour a glass of water and put on fire for 15 minutes. Remove from heat, wrap it up and hold for 2 hours. Strain the broth, they washed my eyes twice a day, morning and before bedtime.

Millet hypertension. Take 3 tablespoons of millet and rinse it. Dry grain, it is necessary to grind using the grinder. For the day to eat all this mass. The course of treatment is 1-2 months. Millet you cannot drink. Powder millet cook every day, because if you cook a lot of powder, it will lose its beneficial properties.

Millet with shingles. It is recommended to take the millet and put it on the fire brewed. When on the water surface will appear foam, it needs to be removed and in the form of heat to anoint wounds. Such procedures do several times a day.


Contraindications to the use of millet

Older people must not consume millet in large quantities and often, as this may cause cause constipation. People with high acidity of the stomach can suffer from heartburn.