"Compendium of Materia Medica" records that duck feet millet tastes sweet and astringent, and has the effect of tonifying the middle warmer and benefiting the stomach, which is used for qi deficiency of the spleen and stomach. Millet flour "cures nausea and heat dysentery, cooks porridge, tonifies food, tonifies deficiency, stimulates appetite, harmonizes middle energizer, tonifies kidney, clears away heat, detoxifies, nourishes spleen and stomach, stops vomiting and diarrhea, induces diuresis, tranquilizes the mind, strengthens brain, prevents aging, detoxifies and whitens".
Millet with duck feet is suitable for growing in arid areas lacking irrigation, and it is drought-tolerant, waterlogging-tolerant and barren soil-tolerant. It is an annual herbaceous cereal crop, coarse grain, and it is a kind of food with storage resistance and nutritional value. It is not only high in protein, containing 7% of protein, but also high in choline and linoleic acid.
It can be used to make syrup, maltose, alcohol, yellow wine and beer, and can also be used as raw materials and medicinal materials for cakes, bread, noodles, porridge and special dishes.
Duck feet millet is also called chicken feet millet, dragon feet millet and adulterated millet. Hainan is called Guangsu or Quansu. Belongs to Gramineae, not genus. Like temperature, barren, vigorous growth, disease resistance, drought tolerance, waterlogging tolerance, vulnerable to aphids. It has the reputation of "black pearl".
References:
Duck feet millet _ Baidu Encyclopedia