Positive Millets (Small Millet, Siridhanya) like foxtail millet, browntop millet, little millet, barnyard millet and kodo millet are a boon given to us by the nature.
These are the food grains having medicinal properties. They are in fact health capsules.
By eating them regularly for 6 months to 2 years everybody can get rid of their diseases. Positive millets not only provide nutrients but they removes disease causing elements from our body and purify the body. Thus, they provide us with good health.
The specific diseases prevented by each small Millet:
- Foxtail millet: It is good for the strengthening of nerves and mental health. It provides relief from arthritis, Parkinson’s disease and epilepsy.
- Kodo millet: It helps in purifying blood, improving resistance power and overcoming anemia and diabetes, constipation and good for sound sleep.
- Barnyard millet: It is good for liver, kidney and endocrinal glands. It helps in reducing cholesterol and jaundice.
- Little millet: It helps in overcoming the problems of ovaries, sperm, PCOD and infertility.
- Browntop millet: It helps in overcoming the problems of ovaries, arthritis, B.P., Thyroid, eyes and obesity.
Why should we eat positive millets (minor millets)
The dietary fiber that is there in our food controls the process that releases glucose into blood from our food. This fiber determines whether the glucose should be released in a large quantity at a time or in small quantities over a few hours.
At present, percentage of fiber in rice and wheat food items has come down to 0.25% – 0.5%. Therefore, within 15 to 35 minutes after eating these food items they are converted into glucose and join the bloodstream. If we take hundred grams of this food 70 grams of it is converted into glucose and joins the bloodstream at a time.
What happens if we eat three or four times a day and apart from that if we have sweets, biscuits, or Burger, pizza or roti made with maida (cake flour) then glucose enters the bloodstream at a time in large quantities. It also increases the fat content and it causes problems to those who already suffer from diabetes and leads to various diseases.
Food items made with maida are converted within 10 minutes into glucose and join the bloodstream and the chemicals used to make maida are harmful to the pancreas. Normally there are only 6 to 7 grams of glucose in our blood (4-5 litres).
We know that after we eat food it is digested and ultimately turns into glucose and then glucose is transported to all parts of the body through blood, but if the glucose is transported to any part within a span of 10 minutes or 30 to 40 minutes then it is not good for health. It is more harmful to elders those who suffer