Coix lachryma-jobi seed, called "Coix lachryma-jobi seed" in Chinese medicine, is listed as the top grade in Shennong Herbal Classic. It can eliminate dampness and benefit the stomach, eliminate edema, strengthen the spleen and benefit the stomach, and can strengthen the body and replenish qi if taken for a long time.

Red adzuki bean is red, and red enters the heart, so it can also nourish the heart and blood. It is recorded in ancient books that "slimming after long service" means that eating adzuki beans often has the effect of losing weight. It also has obvious effects of diuresis, detumescence and spleen and stomach strengthening. Modern people are under great mental pressure and lack of spirit; Poor diet, less exercise, spleen deficiency and dampness. To eliminate dampness, nourish the heart and strengthen the spleen and stomach, it is none other than coix seed and red bean. Boiling it into porridge is intended to make its effective components fully absorbed by the human body, and at the same time it will not cause too much burden on the spleen and stomach. Summer is just a hot summer, wet inside and wet outside. Using these two drugs can just nourish blood and eliminate dampness.

The "detumescence" effect of coix seed and adzuki bean is also very interesting. We must not think that swelling is edema. At least five or six people around are fat and swollen, which is called edema. In Chinese medicine, obesity or edema means that the body is wet, and water can't stay between somatic cells with the flow of qi and blood, which makes the human body expand rapidly. So is edema, and so is obesity, but to different degrees. Drugs or foods with strong dehumidification function can discharge these watery liquids remaining in the human body and also reduce swelling. Therefore, adzuki bean must be used to treat edema, and practice has proved that the glutinous rice adzuki bean porridge has a good weight loss effect, which can not only lose weight, but also does not hurt the body. Especially for middle-aged and elderly obesity, the effect is particularly good.

People often think they are smart: "I added a handful of rice when I cooked glutinous rice and red bean porridge, and the porridge became thicker. It was a wonderful taste!" " "

I said, "Never add more rice!" Why? Because rice grows in water and contains moisture, it is wet and sticky, so it will thicken when cooked. Both adzuki bean and coix seed are dehumidified and contain no water, so the soup is not strong and clear. Traditional Chinese medicine just uses its clarity to get rid of the dryness and dampness of the human body. Once rice is added, it is equivalent to adding water, so the whole porridge is thick. Although the taste is better, it is not a good thing for health. Because of that handful of rice, all the red beans and barley were wasted, and the effect was useless.

Is it possible for everyone to drink barley and red bean soup? Are there any taboos? In fact, this soup is a good health care product without any side effects, but it can be appropriately added and subtracted for different people.

Some people are cold, so you can add a little warm food, such as longan and jujube. Some people suffer from insomnia and their bodies are obviously wet and greasy, so add some lotus seeds and lilies; If a female friend has dysmenorrhea, you can remove the coix seed, cook some red bean soup, add some ginger slices, jujube and brown sugar, and drink it to warm the lower abdomen, which can also relieve the pain. For patients with joint pain, add some raw Radix Paeoniae Alba and Radix Glycyrrhizae to make them sweet and sour, nourish yin and remove arthralgia.

People who are worried, overworked and do little exercise on weekdays often have a dull face, lack of energy, and even palpitations and drowsiness, feeling heavy as a bundle and empty inside. This is a sign of wet body and weak heart. You can add some longan to the highland barley and red bean soup and cook it together. Longan is sweet in taste and warm in nature, which can stimulate appetite, strengthen the spleen, soothe the nerves, replenish blood, nourish the heart and yang, warm the heart and make people full of essence. Moreover, the simple glutinous rice and red bean soup tastes very ordinary, and it becomes sweet and slightly sweet after adding longan. It not only dispels the moisture in our bodies, but also brings vitality and warmth to our hearts. Let's call it glutinous rice red bean longan porridge, which is especially suitable for manual workers and middle-aged and elderly people.

Young people are prone to irritability and insomnia, or rashes and acne on their faces are all caused by excessive fire in the heart and lungs and internal disturbance of damp heat. Washing your face with Coix seed and red bean soup has a miraculous effect, or add lily and lotus seeds to the Coix seed and cook it. Lily can moisten the lungs, nourish the skin, clear the heart and soothe the nerves. Lotus seeds can nourish the heart and clear fire, and at the same time strengthen the spleen and kidney. Of course, if you think the soup is tasteless, you can add some rock sugar.

If you have a cold, chills, stomachache and bad appetite, you can add a few slices of ginger to the barley and red bean soup. Ginger is warm, which can warm the middle warmer, dispel cold, strengthen the spleen and regulate the stomach. Be careful, don't put too much ginger, it will make porridge spicy. If you want to add some seasoning to the soup, you'd better put brown sugar, which is warmer. It should be noted that when women maintain postpartum, they should remove coix seed and increase jujube when drinking red bean coix seed soup. Jujube is very suitable for warming and tonifying the middle warmer, strengthening the spleen and nourishing blood.

People with kidney deficiency can add some black beans to glutinous rice and red bean soup. Because black enters the kidney, the shape of beans is very similar to that of kidney, which is a good product for tonifying kidney.

Now people often say beriberi, which is a typical hot and humid bet. You can add some broken soybeans to the highland barley and red bean soup and soak your feet with the cooked soup. This is the secret recipe for beriberi.

If you cough, you can also peel and core the raw pear and cut it into small pieces 1 ~ 2 cm square. Add glutinous rice and red bean soup and cook together, which can moisten the lungs, resolve phlegm and relieve cough.

Learning to add and subtract Coix seed red bean soup and using it properly can have a good therapeutic effect on most common diseases in life.

2, exercise sweating, balance hormones and dryness and dampness:

Exercise sweating is a good way to eliminate moisture; Especially in summer, don't turn on the air conditioner and fan. Sweat in your body must come out, otherwise the humidity is too heavy and you will definitely get sick in winter.

Sticking to proper exercise every day is very beneficial to your health. Exercise can relieve stress, activate the operation of body organs and accelerate the excretion of water.

Modern people use more brains, consume less physical strength, wait for a long time in a closed air conditioner, and rarely sweat, so the body's ability to adjust humidity becomes worse. Try running, walking, swimming, yoga, Tai Chi and other "breathe a little, sweat a little" exercises, which will help activate blood circulation and increase water metabolism.

3. Use wormwood: it is sold in pharmacies, and it can be roasted at Guanyuan point after lighting.

4, less salt, help the kidneys drain water.

Step 5 take a nap.

Step 6 quit smoking and drinking

7. Eat three slices of ginger in the morning.

8. The diet is light and moderate

Gastrointestinal system is closely related to nutrition and water metabolism, and the best way is a reasonable and balanced diet.

Oily foods such as wine, milk, fat meat and thick taste are not easy to digest, which is easy to cause bloating and inflammation. Sweets and fried products will make the body produce peroxide, which will aggravate the inflammatory reaction.

Traditional Chinese medicine believes that cold food, ice products or cool fruits and vegetables will make the digestion and absorption function of the stomach stagnate, and it is not easy to eat indefinitely. Such as lettuce salad, watermelon, Chinese cabbage, bitter gourd and so on. It is best to add onions and ginger in cooking to reduce the coldness of vegetables.

9. Avoid humid environment

It is best to reduce contact with humid environment in daily life. Especially for people who are sensitive to moisture, they should pay more attention to the following matters:

Don't sleep directly on the floor. The moisture in the air will drop, the floor will be wet, and it will easily invade the body, causing pain in the limbs. It is best to sleep in a bed at a certain distance from the floor. Reduce going out in rainy days.

Don't wear wet clothes and drink plenty of water.