First, the efficacy and nutritional value of coix seed;

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Coix seed is one of the traditional food resources in China, which can be made into porridge, rice and various pasta for human consumption. Especially suitable for the elderly, the weak and the sick. Sweet, light and slightly cold. Among them, Siliushan Village in Qichun is the most famous, which has the functions of invigorating spleen and promoting diuresis, clearing heat and expelling pus, and beauty beauty. The effect of losing weight is achieved through the function of strengthening spleen and eliminating dampness of coix seed. Traditional Chinese medicine believes that obesity is mostly caused by excessive dampness and heat in the body, which is the embodiment of excessive water in the body. Only by removing moisture and moisture can we achieve the effect of losing weight.

When people usually eat coix seed, most of them cook soup and porridge directly. You can also stew melon with barley. Because winter melon tastes sweet and cold, its efficacy is famous for diuresis and detumescence. It is a good product for treating edema and losing weight. Eating with coix seed, just like the same direction in physics, has a greater effect. The biggest function of this soup is diuresis, detumescence and weight loss. It is very suitable for people with edema symptoms and obesity, and has a certain curative effect on joint pain of limbs, unfavorable flexion and extension, and turbid leucorrhea. Winter melon is cold. When stewed with barley, you must add onions and ginger that can dispel the cold.

Second, the efficacy and nutritional value of red beans

Red beans, also known as sea beans, are considered sweet, sour, flat and non-toxic by Chinese medicine. They belong to lung, heart and spleen meridians respectively, and have the effects of dispelling wind and clearing heat, eliminating dampness and relieving itching, moistening skin and caring skin. Its oral administration has the effect of eliminating dampness and strengthening spleen, and is suitable for people with spleen and stomach weakness. It is often used in diet therapy for hypertension, atherosclerosis, edema caused by various reasons, relieving summer heat, clearing away heat and toxic materials, and strengthening stomach. Regular consumption of red beans can also treat beriberi and some skin diseases caused by excessive damp heat, so red beans have a cosmetic effect. For external use, it can be ground into powder and applied to the skin to treat facial black spots, acne, nasal congestion, head wind, tinea versicolor, etc.

Nutrition believes that red beans contain more saponins, which can stimulate the intestine, so they have a good diuretic effect, can relieve alcoholism and detoxify, and are beneficial to heart disease, kidney disease and edema. In addition, red bean skin is rich in dietary fiber. If you don't peel red beans, you can get more dietary fiber, and then play a role in relaxing bowels, lowering blood pressure, lowering blood fat, regulating blood sugar, detoxifying and resisting cancer, preventing stones, and bodybuilding and losing weight. Red beans are also foods rich in folic acid. Pregnant women and lactating mothers eat red beans to promote lactation. These functions are easy to find in traditional Chinese medicine, and their essence is to strengthen the spleen, eliminate dampness and diuresis, expel toxins from the body, and play a role in beauty and health care.

Red beans have the effect of strengthening the spleen and promoting diuresis, so they also have a certain weight loss effect. By dissolving the moisture and damp heat in the body, it can play the role of dehumidification and weight loss.

Third, the efficacy and nutritional value of red dates

Jujube has the effects of tonifying deficiency and benefiting qi, nourishing blood and calming nerves, invigorating spleen and regulating stomach. Jujube has a good effect on chronic hepatitis, liver cirrhosis, anemia, allergic purpura and other diseases. Jujube contains triterpenoids and cyclic adenosine monophosphate, which has strong anticancer and antiallergic effects. According to Compendium of Materia Medica, jujube can moisten the heart and lungs, relieve cough, tonify the five internal organs and treat asthenia. Besides stomach addiction, jujube can also calm the middle energizer, tonify the spleen, calm the stomach qi, relieve nine orifices and help the twelve meridians.

However, jujube is good, but it is not suitable for people who drink phlegm and accumulate dampness. Because jujube has high sugar content, it helps to get rid of dampness. Therefore, people with damp heat in their bodies are not suitable for eating more jujubes.

Jujube has no effect on losing weight. In traditional Chinese medicine, jujube is used to enrich blood, strengthen spleen and liver. The fatter people are, the less they can eat red dates, or they will get fat easily.

Fourth, the practice of barley and red beans.

Coix seed has a hard texture, and red beans take a long time to cook. Even if you keep cooking, it will take an hour and a half to barely eat. It will take a lot of time. There is a trick to get better cooking effect:

Wash barley and red beans, put them in a thermos bottle, add boiling water, and then cover the bottle stopper. Generally, it is prepared in the morning, and after work in the afternoon, red beans and coix seed become medicinal meals with health care function, because after seven or eight hours of constant temperature heating, coix seed and red beans will become cooked food after being soaked in hot water. After returning to China, you can eat it directly, or you can pour it into aluminum pot (preferably a purple casserole) and boil it again.

Of course, you can also use the rice cooker with reservation function to cook this medicated diet. Wash the red beans and coix seed together, pour them into the rice cooker, select the gear of nutrition porridge, turn on the reservation function, set the drinking time, and start work two hours in advance.

5. When drinking glutinous rice and red bean porridge, don't add sugar, because Chinese medicine believes that sweetness can make you wet, but on the contrary, glutinous rice and red bean soup is dehumidified, and their functions are diametrically opposite. Therefore, only eat red beans and glutinous rice porridge, and don't enlarge starchy foods such as rice. This will have a good health care effect.

6. The role of boiled water of coix seed, red beans and red dates in losing weight.

So far, there is no staple food that can reduce weight by eating it in the stomach. Losing weight requires a combination of many aspects to achieve the goal. Generally, by controlling the amount of food eaten, some foods eaten in the stomach feel full, so as to achieve the purpose of reducing the intake of staple foods, thereby correspondingly reducing the intake of calories and fatty foods. Foods such as coix seed and red beans can reduce the accumulation of damp heat in the body, thus achieving a certain weight loss effect. When quoting Red Bean and Coix Seed Decoction, there is no need to add red dates, which have opposite pharmacological effects. Red beans and coix seed are good for dampness, while red dates are good for dampness. They cook together, if it is a daily diet, there is no need to taboo, and there will be no toxic side effects, but it is not recommended for the conditioning effect of the human body. The collocation is wrong.

Although barley and red beans have a certain weight loss effect, it is absolutely impossible to lose weight by eating alone.

To lose weight, adjusting diet is an important aspect. Another very important aspect is that we must adjust our living habits, strengthen exercise, and burn off excess calories and fat in our body, so as to lose weight successfully.