Improve water, quench thirst, relieve food shortage and chronic diarrhea.

Kidney bean and tender pod are common vegetables, and their seeds can be used as medicine. There are three main kinds of seeds: red, white and black. Kidney beans can clear liver and diminish inflammation. White beans are thick and shaped like half a moon. The bean is white when cooked, soft and slightly sweet, tough when fried, and can be used as medicine. Black beans are red around, and the more they look like, the lighter the color is. What is not red is cyan, thin meat, extremely tough, and white feathers like magpies, so it is also called magpie beans. The cuttlebone has the functions of inducing diuresis to quench thirst, invigorating spleen to stop vomiting, and relieving anorexia and chronic diarrhea.

1, improve water to quench thirst: For people who are thirsty for drinking water and have difficulty urinating, eating sword beans can improve water to quench thirst.

2. Relieve vomiting due to spleen deficiency: Vomiting due to spleen deficiency is a disease characterized by heartburn, abdominal distension or upset stomach, pantothenic acid, belching, nausea and vomiting, loss of appetite, poor defecation or diarrhea. Eating sword beans can relieve vomiting due to spleen deficiency.

3, relieve long-term eating less: eating sword beans often has the effect of relieving symptoms such as loss of appetite and long-term diarrhea.

Matters needing attention

The right crowd

People with weak spleen and stomach and reduced diet

Taboo crowd

People with malaria, colds and urinary calculi.

Edible method

boil the kettle

Wash the sword bean, add water 10 minute, remove the residue and add rock sugar to drink. The syrup has the effects of lowering qi, relieving cough and asthma, and can be used for treating pertussis in children and cough with excessive phlegm in the elderly.

Take medicine after mixing with water or wine.

Knife beans are washed with clear water, dried in the sun, ground into powder, and taken with warm water, which has the effect of dispelling cold and relieving pain.