Wudou decoction
In hot summer, heatstroke prevention is the most important way to keep fit. Xiaoshudiudou decoction has the functions of clearing away heat and relieving summer heat, nourishing yin and promoting fluid production, and its smell is fragrant and sweet. Wudou soup is actually four beans and one grass, which consists of red beans with the functions of clearing away heat and toxic materials and diuresis, mung beans for relieving summer heat and dampness and quenching thirst, lentils for eliminating dampness and stopping diarrhea, black beans for moistening skin, and licorice, also called beans. Licorice can be said to regulate various drugs, and black beans in ancient books say that "they have many kidney functions, so they can control water", so they can help adzuki beans, lentils and mung beans to cool off summer heat and benefit water, and also slow down their coldness. Therefore, this soup is suitable for men, women and children.
Method for making soup with five buckets
Raw materials: adzuki bean 10g, mung bean 10g, black bean 10g, white lentil 10g and raw licorice 3g.
Exercise:
1. Soak white lentils, mung beans, adzuki beans and black beans in water for 10 hour, and then cook Wudou soup. Raw licorice is wrapped in gauze and set aside.
2. First, wash the four kinds of beans soaked for 10 hour, then put the white lentils, black beans, red beans, mung beans and raw licorice gauze bags into a clay pot with a proper amount of water in turn, light and heat the soup pot, boil it with strong fire and then simmer it for 2 hours, or take it lightly or add sugar.
3. After the five bean soup is cooked, put it in a big bowl, or put it in several small bowls, put it in the refrigerator after cooling, and take it out when drinking, so that the five bean soup that can cool off the heat and keep fit is ready.
Nutritional analysis of Wudou decoction
1, adzuki bean
Adzuki bean contains more saponins, which can affect the intestine, so it has a good diuretic effect, can relieve alcoholism and detoxify, and is beneficial to heart, kidney and edema; There are also more dietary fibers, which have good effects of relaxing bowels, lowering blood pressure, lowering blood fat, regulating blood sugar, detoxifying and resisting cancer, preventing stones, bodybuilding and losing weight; Adzuki bean is a kind of food rich in folic acid. It is effective for parturient and lactating women to eat adzuki bean to promote lactation.
2. Mung beans
Mung beans are rich in nutrients, and have the functions of stimulating appetite, reducing blood fat, cholesterol, antiallergic, detoxicating and protecting liver. Mung beans are sweet, cool, and enter the heart and stomach; It has the effects of clearing away heat and toxic materials, relieving summer-heat, relieving restlessness, quenching thirst, invigorating stomach, promoting diuresis and reducing swelling, and is mainly used for treating summer-heat polydipsia, damp-heat diarrhea, edema, sores and swelling, erysipelas, mumps, acne rash and arsenic poisoning. Mung beans are cold, people with physical deficiency and cold should not eat more or for a long time, and people with spleen and stomach deficiency and cold diarrhea should eat carefully.
3. Black beans
Black beans are nutritious, rich in protein, vitamins and minerals, and have the functions of detumescence, lowering qi, moistening lung and drying heat, promoting blood circulation and diuresis, expelling wind and detoxicating, nourishing blood and tranquilizing the mind, improving eyesight and strengthening spleen, and benefiting the yin of liver and kidney. Can be used for treating edema, beriberi, jaundice edema, wind spasm, puerperal wind pain, detoxicating, controlling wind heat, stopping night sweats, blackening hair, and prolonging life.
4. White lentils
White lentil is an excellent dual-purpose food with rich nutrition. Regular consumption can promote the metabolism of human muscle, bone and nerve function. A large amount of cellulose in white lentils can coordinate intestinal peristalsis, shorten the residence time of toxic metabolites in intestinal cavity, improve gastrointestinal function, and thus reduce the risk of gastrointestinal tumors. Lentils also have anti-virus, hypoglycemic, enhancing cellular immune function, cancer prevention and anti-cancer effects.
5, licorice
Has the effects of invigorating spleen, invigorating qi, clearing away heat and toxic materials, resolving phlegm, relieving cough, relieving pain and harmonizing various medicines. Commonly used for mental fatigue, palpitation, shortness of breath, cough with excessive phlegm, abdominal distension, acute pain in limbs, carbuncle, swelling and sores, with strong toxicity.
On a hot summer day, have a cup of five bean soup. The above is some knowledge of Wudou Tang. Want to know more about TCM prescriptions, please continue to pay attention to the channel.
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