Red beans contain more nutrients than many foods such as wheat, millet and corn. According to the analysis of food experts, the protein content of red beans is 17.5%-23.3%, starch is 48.2%-60. 1%, and dietary fiber is 5.6%- 18.6%.
In addition, red beans also contain a variety of inorganic salts and trace elements, such as potassium, calcium, magnesium, iron, copper, manganese and zinc. The nutritional components of red beans are similar to those of familiar mung beans, and some even exceed mung beans.
Red beans are rich in starch, so they are also called "Mi Dou". It has the functions of "swallowing, diuresis, relieving bloating, detumescence and stopping vomiting", and is called "Heart Meridian Valley" by Li Shizhen. Adzuki bean is an indispensable multi-functional cereal with high nutrition in people's lives. It is the dried and mature seed of Leguminosae adzuki bean or adzuki bean, and it is harvested when the fruit is ripe but not cracked in autumn. Location: Guangdong, Guangxi, Jiangxi and other places.
The content of lysine in red bean protein is high, so it should be mixed with grain to make bean rice or bean porridge, generally made into bean paste or used as pastry raw material. Red beans are not only delicious food, but also a panacea for doctors. Chinese medicine believes that red beans are sweet, sour, flat and non-toxic, and have the effect of eliminating dampness and strengthening the spleen, which is more suitable for people with weak spleen and stomach. It is often used in diet therapy for hypertension, atherosclerosis, edema caused by various reasons, summer heat, antipyretic toxicity, stomach strengthening and other purposes.
Efficacy of red beans: Red beans have the effects of clearing the heart and nourishing the spirit, strengthening the spleen and tonifying the kidney. Adding lotus seeds and lilies has the effects of fixing sperm, stopping bleeding and strengthening bones and muscles, and can treat lung dryness and cough, enhance visceral vitality and physical strength. Health care is also an important part of skin care. Only through external adjustment and internal cultivation can a woman be created.
In traditional medicine, red beans are mainly used for promoting blood circulation to remove edema, benefiting qi to remove beriberi and strengthening the spleen. For example, boiled red beans and carp can play a dietotherapy role in edema, beriberi and dysuria, and can also treat liver cirrhosis, hepatic ascites and complement deficiency. The soup made of red beans and winter melon is a good diet for edema all over the body; Red beans cooked with lentils and coix seed can treat diarrhea. In addition, adzuki bean can also be used with traditional Chinese medicine, such as adzuki bean with forsythia and angelica soup, which can treat liver abscess; Red beans with dandelion and licorice soup can treat intestinal pain.
Chinese medicine experts believe that red beans have the effect of reducing swelling and improving intelligence. It is suitable for people with various types of edema, including renal edema, cardiogenic edema, ascites due to cirrhosis, malnutrition edema, etc. It's sultry in summer, and some people get edema. Drinking red bean soup at this time has a very good therapeutic effect on edema. If you can drink red bean soup to treat edema at first, you can see the reduction of edema the next day, and then take it for about 8 days, so that the edema can disappear completely.