Red beans and coix seed are sacred products for detoxification. Red beans are sweet, sour, flat and non-toxic. Contains starch, fatty oil, protein, vitamins (A, B, C), plant saponin and aluminum. Minerals like copper. Conducive to diuresis, detumescence, detoxification and pus discharge, clearing away heat and promoting diuresis.

Red beans are rich in vitamins B 1, B2, protein and various minerals, and have the functions of enriching blood, diuresis, detumescence and promoting heart activation. Eating more can prevent foot swelling and have the effect of losing weight. Its alkaloids can increase gastrointestinal peristalsis, reduce constipation, promote urination, and eliminate edema caused by heart or kidney diseases. Eating red beans to lose weight can make your thighs and waist have very obvious special effects.

Coix seed and red bean soup is the best medicine to treat damp evil. The best thing for patients is to go back and cook barley and red bean soup as tea.

Coix seed and red beans can enhance renal function and have the effect of clearing heat and diuresis, so they are also effective for edema patients. Modern pharmacological studies have proved that Coix lachryma-jobi seed has anti-cancer effect, and its anti-cancer effective components contain selenium, which can effectively inhibit the proliferation of cancer cells and can be used for adjuvant treatment of gastric cancer and cervical cancer.

Coix seed and red bean have the functions of nourishing hair, preventing alopecia and making hair smooth and supple. Smooth skin, reduce wrinkles and eliminate pigmentation spots. It has obvious curative effect on facial acne and rough skin. In addition, it also has the ability to absorb ultraviolet rays, and its extract can also achieve sun protection and ultraviolet protection when added to cosmetics.

Coix seed and red bean have the characteristics of high fiber and low fat, and have good effects of relaxing bowels, lowering blood pressure, lowering blood fat, regulating blood sugar, detoxicating and resisting cancer, preventing calculus, strengthening body and losing weight. Coix lachryma-jobi seed is a common traditional Chinese medicine, a common food that is often eaten, sweet in taste and slightly cold in nature, which is beneficial to detumescence, invigorating spleen and eliminating dampness, relaxing muscles and tendons, clearing heat and expelling pus, and is a commonly used diuretic.

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 beans, known as "adzuki beans" in Chinese medicine, also have obvious diuretic and detumescence effects and spleen and stomach strengthening effects. Because they are red, they can nourish the heart.

Modern people have great mental stress, lack of heart-qi, improper diet, little exercise, spleen deficiency and dampness. To eliminate dampness, nourish the heart and strengthen the spleen and stomach, barley and red beans are the only ones. Boiling it into porridge is intended to make its effective components fully absorbed by the human body, while not causing any burden to the spleen and stomach.

The "detumescence" effect of coix seed and red bean is also very interesting. We must not think that swelling is edema. Look at people now, at least five or six out of ten people are fat and swollen, which is called bloated.

In Chinese medicine, obesity or edema means that the body is wet. Water can't flow with qi and blood and stay between human cells, which makes the human body expand rapidly. So is edema, so is obesity, but the degree is deep and shallow. Drugs or foods with strong dampness-removing properties can discharge these residual water in the human body, and can also reduce swelling.

Therefore, red beans must be used to treat edema, and practice has proved that barley red bean porridge has a good weight loss effect, which can not only lose weight, but also does not hurt the body, especially suitable for middle-aged and elderly people and obese people.

Dampness is the root of all kinds of chronic incurable diseases in modern times, and Coix seed and red bean soup is a good medicine for treating dampness. I usually give patients a prescription and always tell them some precautions in their diet and daily life, among which the most common thing is to go back and drink the barley and red bean soup as tea. For patients who don't have this condition, I will let him cook porridge with barley and red beans as the staple food for dinner.

One advantage of glutinous rice red bean porridge is that it won't be sticky. Red beans and glutinous rice will always rot at the bottom, and the red soup will be on it. Most of the effective ingredients of glutinous rice and red beans are in the soup.

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Nutritional principles of diet for losing weight

1, limit total energy: gradually reduce energy intake, while assisting moderate physical activity. Adults with mild obesity should lose 0.5 ~ 1.0 kg per month, that is, reduce the energy intake of 125 ~ 250 calories per day. Adults with moderate obesity should lose 0.5 ~ 1.0 kg per month and 552 ~1/0.04 calories per day.

2. Appropriate protein: While adopting a low-energy diet, the supply of protein should account for 20% ~ 30% of the total energy supply. Excessive intake of protein will damage liver and kidney function.

3, limit fat: too much fat intake will lead to ketosis, while limiting the supply of dietary energy, we must limit the supply of dietary fat, especially animal fat. Fat is easy to deposit around subcutaneous tissues and internal organs, leading to fatty liver and some cardiovascular and cerebrovascular diseases. The dietary fat of obese people should be controlled at 25 ~ 30% of total energy intake.

4. Sugar restriction: the supply of sugar should be controlled at 40 ~ 55% of the total dietary energy, and foods containing monosaccharides such as sucrose and maltose should be avoided. The intake of dietary fiber can be unlimited, so we should eat more high-fiber foods appropriately.

5. Salt restriction and purine restriction: salt can cause thirst and increase appetite. Excessive consumption is not conducive to the treatment of obesity, and 3 ~ 6g/d is appropriate; Purine will increase appetite and increase the burden on liver and kidney, so the liver and heart of animals should also be restricted.

6, cooking methods and diet: food processing should be based on steaming, boiling, burning, simmering and other cooking methods, avoid frying, frying. The number of meals varies from person to person, usually 3-5 times? /Good day.

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Baidu encyclopedia red bean barley