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. 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 "red beans" in Chinese medicine, also have obvious diuretic and detumescence effects and spleen and stomach strengthening effects. Because it is red, red enters the heart, so it can also replenish 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. The "detumescence" effect of coix seed and red bean is also very interesting.
Reference material coix seed-Baidu encyclopedia
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