Both red beans and barley can help the body to excrete excess water, but because barley is cool, it is not suitable for girls to eat alone for a long time. Using warm red beans will not burden the body. Red beans can enrich blood, and coix seed can whiten skin, which has both weight loss and beauty effects. But don't add sugar for the taste, sugar is easy to get fat! 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 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 barley and red beans. 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. About coix seed and
The "detumescence" effect of red beans 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 traditional Chinese medicine, obesity also
Well, edema or not shows 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. Remove moisture
Extremely strong drugs or food can remove these accumulated water in the human body and 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 for middle-aged and elderly obesity, the effect is particularly good. 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. People often ask: "Why can't barley and red bean porridge be cooked into a sticky shape?" Don't add more rice to the porridge of highland barley and red beans! Why? Because rice grows in water and contains moisture, it is wet and sticky, so it will thicken when cooked. Both red beans and coix seed are dehumidified and contain no water, so they are not strong and the soup is clear. Traditional Chinese medicine just uses its clarity to get rid of the dryness and dampness of 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.
Strengthening the spleen, eliminating dampness, stopping diarrhea and discharging pus. Used for diarrhea due to spleen deficiency, muscle soreness, joint pain, edema, beriberi, leucorrhea, lung abscess and appendicitis. Usually the dosage is 9 ~ 30g. Eliminating dampness and strengthening spleen; Relaxing tendons and removing arthralgia; Clearing heat and discharging pus.