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What is Mi Dou?
Question 1: What's the difference between red beans and Mi Dou? Mi Dou is white and red beans are a little bigger than Mi Dou.

Question 2: What is Mi Dou and what are its attributes? Mi Dou is also known as Mi Dou, tendril bean, bamboo bean, refined Mi Dou and mountain climbing bean. Native to tropical areas from Himalayas to Sri Lanka.

Mi Dou is mainly distributed in eastern and southern Asia, and the main producing countries are China, Thailand and Myanmar. The main producing areas in China are three northeastern provinces, Inner Mongolia, Shanxi and other places.

Rice and beans are mostly planted in tropical and subtropical low-altitude areas, which are resistant to high temperature, drought, waterlogging and cold. Sowing in the north of China is from late April to mid-May, and sowing in the south is from full moon to July.

I. Nutrition and health care

Mi Dou is a kind of bean food with rich nutrition. Every 100g contains protein 19. 1%-22.7%, fat 0.6%- 1.2%, carbohydrate 60.7%-65.4%, crude fiber 4.0%-5.8% and ash 4.8%. Vitamin B 1 (thiamine) 0.39-0.57, vitamin B20.08-0.2 1 mg, nicotinic acid 2.2-2.4 mg. Compared with other beans, Mi Dou contains more calcium.

The contents of amino acids (nitrogen mg/ 100g) in protein are: arginine 462, histidine 380, leucine 606, isoleucine 387, lysine 769, methionine 169, cystine 44, phenylalanine 325, threonine 294 and valine 394.

As a pasture, when the pods grow to half the size of maturity, rice beans are rich in nutrition. According to the determination, the nutrients in vegetative growth period are: dry matter 16.0%, in which cellulose 310.5%, crude protein 18.0%, fat 1. 1%, and nitrogen-free extract (nitrogen mg//. The nutrients in flowering period are: dry matter 24.0%, including cellulose 32. 1%, protein 14.5%, fat 1.0%, nitrogen-free extract 40.0%, ash 10.8% and calcium/kloc-0.

Mi Dou is also an ancient folk medicine, and its medicinal value was recorded in ancient medical books more than 2,000 years ago in China. According to the Dictionary of Traditional Chinese Medicine, the seeds of red Mi Dou are flat, sweet and sour, non-toxic and enter the heart and small intestine. Conducive to diuresis, dehumidification, blood and pus discharge, swelling and detoxification. It has obvious curative effect on edema, beriberi, jaundice, bloody stool and carbuncle, and is better than adzuki bean as a medicinal material. However, due to insufficient supply, it was gradually replaced by adzuki beans. Many data show that Mi Dou, whose rice grain is small and reddish brown, can be used as medicine, while Mi Dou, whose rice grain is slightly larger and bright red, has no therapeutic effect. Mi Dou's leaves can treat frequent urination and enuresis; Flowers can clear away heat, detoxify, quench thirst and treat diseases such as malaria and dysentery; Bean sprouts can cure hematochezia, pregnancy, fetal leakage and so on.

Second, how to eat

Mi Dou can be made into porridge, soup, cooked with rice, cooked and eaten, or mixed with wheat and other grains to make noodles. Seedlings, tender pods and leaves can be used as vegetables, and seeds can be used as bean sprouts and bean paste.

Question 3: The difference between Mi Dou, Red Bean and Mung Bean] Red Bean, Red Bean, Red Mi Dou and Mi Dou. [Sexual taste] It is flat in nature and sweet in taste. 【 Efficacy 】 Strengthening the spleen to stop diarrhea, diuresis and detumescence. [Edible] Suitable for people with various edema, including renal edema, cardiogenic edema, ascites due to cirrhosis, malnutrition edema, etc. If you can eat with mullet, carp or yellow hen, the swelling 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. Herbal dietotherapy: "Cook with carp to cure beriberi and abdominal edema." Edible materia medica: "Red beans strengthen bones and muscles, pump muscles, and thin people eat them for a long time." Publisher: "Milk, boiled adzuki beans, drink juice." Compendium of Materia Medica: "Tongnai is cooked with carp, crucian carp and yellow hen." [Don't eat] Red beans can dredge waterways, so people who urinate a lot don't eat them. Tao Hongjing said: "Sex is draining body fluid, and eating for a long time makes people thin." Materialism of eating: "Eat thin people for a long time." New edition of materia medica: "adzuki bean can benefit water temporarily, but not for a long time." Dampness is mostly due to qi deficiency, diuresis, turning to deficiency, and dampness cannot be removed. In addition, adzuki beans are only beneficial to the water in the lower body and not to the wetness in the upper body. Covering the lower body is really wet and effective; The dampness and deficiency of the upper body are also very beneficial and inseparable. Compendium of Materia Medica: "adzuki bean, its sexual decline, will drop too much after taking it for a long time, and the body fluid will leak out, so the muscles will be thin and heavy." "Life and Taste Diet Spectrum": "Red beans should not be bitten by snakes within 100 days. "Note: adzuki beans are not as nutritious as soybeans. Adzuki bean not only contains protein and fat, but also contains vitamins A, B, C, plant saponins and trace elements such as aluminum and copper. It should also be noted that adzuki bean and acacia are similar in appearance and both have aliases of "red bean". Sophora japonica seeds are produced in Guangdong, and their appearance is half red and half black. Acacia seeds were mistaken for adzuki beans to cause poisoning before, so don't confuse them when eating. According to Jia Ming's "Food Instructions" in Yuan Dynasty, the flowers of adzuki beans are called "rotten women", which can relieve alcoholism and make people drunk. Mung bean, also called green adzuki bean, is a traditional bean food of our people. Mung beans contain more vitamins, calcium, phosphorus, iron and other inorganic salts than japonica rice. Therefore, it not only has good value, but also has very good medicinal value. There is a saying called "saving the world and making a good valley". In hot summer, mung bean soup is the favorite summer drink of ordinary people. ≮ Efficacy ≯ Mung beans are sweet and cool, and have the effect of clearing away heat and detoxifying. People who work in summer or high temperature environment sweat more, lose more water and liquid, lose the most potassium, and the electrolyte balance in the body is destroyed. Supplementing with mung bean soup is the most ideal method, which can clear away heat and relieve summer heat, replenish qi to quench thirst, induce diuresis, not only replenish water, but also replenish inorganic salts in time, which is of great significance to maintaining water-liquid electrolyte balance. Mung beans also have detoxification effect. In case of organophosphorus pesticide poisoning, lead poisoning, alcoholism (drunkenness) or taking the wrong medicine, you can first fill a bowl of mung bean soup for emergency treatment and then send it to the hospital for emergency treatment. People who often work in a toxic environment or come into contact with toxic substances should often eat mung beans to detoxify their health. Calcium and phosphorus in mung beans can supplement nutrition and enhance physical strength. ≮ Suitable for people ≯ Suitable for all ages and seasons. ≮ Dosage ≯ 40 grams each time. ≮ Special instructions ≯ Mung beans should not be overcooked, so as not to destroy organic acids and vitamins and reduce the efficacy of clearing away heat and toxic materials. ≮ Healthy traffic lights ≯ Mung beans are cool and people with weak spleen and stomach should not eat more. Don't eat mung bean food when taking medicine, especially warm tonic, so as not to reduce the efficacy. Uncooked mung beans have a strong smell, which makes them prone to nausea and vomiting after eating.

Question 4: Do you know what Mi Dou looks like? Generally, big supermarkets have miscellaneous grains. Because Mi Dou is a small miscellaneous grain, there are many miscellaneous names among the people, including cowpea/kidney bean (cowpea/kidney bean is rice, which is different from vegetable cowpea in that it collects seeds instead of eating green pods) and white bean (named after cowpea's white skin). Not in the supermarket, so he went to the farmer's market to see if there were cowpeas/kidney beans. He will definitely find an old one and peel it off. The beans in it are the Mi Dou shape you want to know.

Question 5: What therapeutic effects does Mi Dou have? They are sweet, flat, salty and non-toxic, and enter the spleen and kidney meridians; Has the effects of invigorating spleen, quenching thirst and tonifying kidney. ...

Question 6: What does Mi Dou do? Vicia faba is an annual erect herb with a height of 20 ~ 40 cm. 3 compound leaves, the terminal leaflets are ovate-rhombic, the leaflets on both sides are obliquely ovate, the apex is short, and the margin is full of eyebrows or nearly entire. Racemes axillary, with long stalks; There are usually cushioned glands between flowers; Calyx bell-shaped, light green, calyx teeth lanceolate, and the upper two calyx teeth are usually United; Petals protrude greatly from calyx; Stamens in 2 bundles. The pod is 7 ~ 15cm long and the seeds are of different colors. The flowering period is July-August. The fruit ripens in September.

The seeds are white, black and reddish brown. [ 1]

1. Pulsatilla is mainly used as medicine, and it also has certain anti-cancer effects, such as invigorating spleen and benefiting qi, eliminating dampness and relieving summer heat;

3. Dark plum beans were called magpie beans in ancient times and were not used as medicine;

3. reddish-brown people are called red snow beans in Guangxi, which are used as liver-clearing and anti-inflammatory drugs to treat eye blindness.

morphological character

Leaflets 3, terminal lobules rhombic-broadly ovoid, lateral lobules oblique rhombic-broadly ovoid, about 6- 10 cm long and 4.5- 10.5 cm wide, with short and pointed eyebrows at the top or tapering, broad wedge-shaped or nearly truncated at the base, and white pubescence along veins on both sides. Racemes axillary; 2-4 flowers clustered on the nodes of inflorescence axis; The two teeth in the upper part of the statue are almost completely combined into one, and the other three teeth are almost equal; Corolla is white or purplish red, and there are two appendages on both sides of the base of the flag petal; The ovary has silky hair, glands at the base and white beard hair near the top of the style. Pods are flat, sickle-shaped or semi-oval, 5-7 cm long; 3-5 seeds, flat, rectangular, white or purple-black.

The pod of Vigna angustifolia is oblate or oblate, with a length of 8 ~ 13mm, a width of 6 ~ 9mm and a thickness of about 7mm. The seed surface is yellowish white or yellowish, smooth and slightly shiny, and there is a raised white eyebrow mound on one side edge. It's hard. Seed coat is thin and brittle, cotyledons 2, thick, yellow and white. A slight breath, a faint taste, and a beany smell when chewing.

Traditional Chinese medicine attribute

Overview of medicine

Scientific name: lentil. )Sweetmeidou

English name: Purple Haricot

Different names of X bean (herbal medicine of Tang Dynasty), Nanmei bean (herbal medicine of southern Yunnan), Hedgerow bean, Moth bean (outline), cold eye bean (herbal medicine), sheep eye bean (medicinal significance), swollen skin bean (flora of Guangzhou) and tea bean (tea tree).

Pods are used as food; The dried white seed is called "white plum bean", the seed coat is called "plum bean coat", and the open flower name "plum bean flower" is used as medicine. The function of beans and clothes is to neutralize dampness, relieve summer heat and detoxify, strengthen spleen and stomach, stop diarrhea, and flowers can clear summer heat and eliminate dampness, and treat purulent blood under diarrhea. The seeds contain fatty oil, protein, sugar, nicotinic acid, amino acids, vitamins A and C and alkaloids. Eyebrow beans are divided into red flowers and white flowers according to the color of flowers. The colors of pods are green and white, light green, pink and purple. At present, the main cultivated varieties are Huazi Xiaobaibian, Zhuxuebian, Red Phnom Penh, Baihua Daibian and Dabaobian.

Nicknames: X bean, southern eyebrow bean, hedgehog bean, moth eyebrow bean, cool swallow bean, sheep eye bean, swollen skin bean, tea bean, southern bean, adzuki bean, tree bean, rattan bean and white Mi Dou (Guangxi local title).

Chinese Pinyin Meidou

English name Purple Haricot

White bean

Also known as Mi Dou. Its seedlings can be eaten as vegetables when they are tender, and it is also very good to eat raw. Some are white, some are khaki, as big as mung beans, but longer than mung beans. It is required to plant in April and May, and its seedlings are slightly sharper than red beans.

Sweet, flat and non-toxic.

Efficacy is mainly used to tonify five internal organs, regulate middle energizer and help the twelve meridians. It can also warm the stomach and drive away fishy smell. It is a food for tonifying kidney, and people with kidney disease should eat it.

leaf

The efficacy is mainly cooking and eating, which is beneficial to conditioning the five internal organs.

Functional indication

Treat summer-heat dampness with vomiting and diarrhea, vomiting due to spleen deficiency, eating less for a long time, quenching thirst, leucorrhea with red and white discharge and malnutrition in children. 1. Strengthening the spleen and eliminating dampness is mainly used for spleen deficiency and dampness, and eating less loose stool; Wet mud bet, women take too much. 2. Eliminating dampness and relieving summer heat is used for summer heat injury, vomiting and diarrhea, tendon transfer and other diseases. 3. Treat edema, arsenic poisoning and bacillary dysentery (5 tablets).

Usage and dosage: decocted,15 ~ 30g; I still took the pills and dispersed them.

People who avoid eating cold and heat. [ 1]

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Is this an over-the-counter drug?

Artificial cultivation

1. Cultivated land selection. (1) Dig deep into the land, apply sole fertilizer and irrigate the soil moisture. (2) Select high-quality disease-resistant varieties, and use seed coating agent and new high-fat film to dress seeds (which can effectively isolate virus infection ... > >

Question 7: What is Red Mi Dou? Red Mi Dou is a specialty of Shanxi province, with huge particles, bright color, nutritional and medicinal value, nutrition and health, and longevity.

Medicinal value:

Red kidney beans are rich in anthocyanins and saponins, which can reduce the content of local inflammatory tissues in joints, have obvious anti-inflammatory effect, and have anti-inflammatory and analgesic effects on arthritis patients. Therefore, it is suggested that patients with joint pain often eat safflower kidney bean porridge to treat it.

Question 8: Is red bean Mi Dou? Red beans are a good product for both medicine and food. It is also called "Mi Dou" because it is rich in starch.

Red beans are beneficial to water dehumidification, blood pus discharge, swelling and detoxification.

There is also a kind of adzuki bean, also known as "red bean" and "acacia", which is the seed of woody plants. It is black, toxic near the navel, and cannot be used for oral administration. The two must be distinguished.

Question 9: Is it cool in Mi Dou? Mi Dou is not cold.

Sexual taste

Prunus mume (Mi Dou) is sweet and slightly warm. Can strengthen the spleen and eliminate dampness.

Contains protein, fat, sugar, phosphorus, calcium, iron, zinc, vitamin B 1, B2, nicotinic acid, pantothenic acid, stigmasterol, phospholipids, cyanosides, hemagglutinin and other ingredients.

Used for spleen deficiency with dampness, mental fatigue, eating less loose stool, or edema; Women with spleen deficiency; Summer is humid, spleen and stomach are not harmonious, and vomiting and diarrhea occur.

Eyebrow beans are the seeds of leguminous plants, which are spherical or oblate, slightly larger than soybeans and shaped like cashews.

Famous rice cowpea, Mi Dou, Mi Dou, sweet bean, white bean, etc. Belonging to dried beans and products. It is an annual twining herb. It is a leguminous lentil seed, spherical or oblate, slightly larger than soybean and shaped like cashew nuts. Distributed in Hebei, China,

Jiangsu, Sichuan, Yunnan and other provinces, Vietnam also has products. Eyebrow beans are commonly known in Guangdong. Li Shizhen said: "This bean can be used as food, fruit and grain, and it is the best for standby. It is the best of beans." .

Mume is rich in nutrients, including protein, fat, sugar, calcium, phosphorus, iron, dietary fiber, provitamin A, vitamin B 1, vitamin B2, vitamin C, cyanosides and tyrosinase. The skin of green plum is especially rich in B vitamins.

Question 10: What kind of white Mi Dou is kidney bean? Used for stewing ribs, pig's trotters, etc. It is delicious, but don't eat too much. It is not easy to digest, but it will increase the burden on the stomach.