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.

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

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Adding some different medicinal materials to red bean and barley porridge often has unexpected effects.

65438+ This is a sign of wet body and weak heart. You can add some longan to the barley and red bean porridge and cook it together.

Longan is sweet in taste and warm in nature, which can stimulate appetite, strengthen the spleen, soothe the nerves, replenish blood, nourish the heart and yang, warm the heart and make people full of essence. Especially suitable for mental workers and middle-aged and elderly people.

2. Young people are prone to irritability, insomnia, or rashes and acne on their faces, all of which are caused by excessive heart fire and internal disturbance of damp heat. You can add lily or lotus seeds to glutinous rice and red bean porridge and cook it together, or you can have both. Lily can moisten the lungs, nourish the skin, clear the heart and soothe the nerves. Lotus seeds can nourish the heart, clear the heart fire, and strengthen the spleen and kidney at the same time.

However, lotus seeds have a slightly astringent effect, which can be used by people who are weak, but I am afraid that fat people with more blood stasis in their bodies should not be used. When using lotus seeds, you should remove the heart inside. If you think porridge has no taste, you can also add some rock sugar. Among all kinds of sugar, only rock sugar is cold and can clear the heart.

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