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Red bean barley is a kind of health porridge. It is made of red beans, coix seed and condensed milk. The preparation method is simple, nutritious and healthy, and has the effects of promoting cardiovascular activation, diuresis, invigorating stomach, promoting salivation, eliminating dampness and benefiting qi. It is a good medicinal and health food.
Clearing away heat and toxic materials, invigorating spleen, regulating stomach, promoting diuresis, relieving swelling, and ventilating, and can be used for treating dysuria, spleen edema, beriberi, etc. Eating red beans and crucian carp soup has therapeutic effect on edema, beriberi and dysuria, and also has therapeutic effect on liver cirrhosis, hepatic ascites and complement deficiency.
The soup made of red beans and winter melon is a good diet to solve the whole body edema; Boiled red beans with lentils and barley can treat diarrhea. In addition, red beans can also be used with traditional Chinese medicine, such as red beans with forsythia and angelica soup, which can treat liver abscess.
Red beans combined with dandelion and licorice soup can treat intestinal pain. The nutritional components of red beans are similar to those of mung beans, and some components even exceed mung beans. Therefore, eating more red beans is good for your health.
It is suitable for people with various edema, including renal edema, cardiogenic edema, ascites due to liver cirrhosis, malnutrition edema, etc. If you can eat it with mullet, carp or yellow hen, the swelling effect will be better; Suitable for postpartum hypogalactia and postpartum edema, you can simply drink soup or cook porridge with red beans; Suitable for obese people.
Reference link: Baidu Encyclopedia-Red Bean Coix Seed