Common name 】 Red bean, red bean, red Mi Dou and Mi Dou.

[Sexual taste] It is flat in nature and sweet in taste.

【 Efficacy 】 Strengthening the spleen to stop diarrhea, diuresis and detumescence.

[Edible] Suitable for people with various edema, including renal edema, cardiogenic edema, ascites due to cirrhosis, malnutrition edema, etc. If you can eat with mullet, carp or yellow hen, the swelling will be better; Suitable for postpartum hypogalactia and postpartum edema, you can simply drink soup or cook porridge with red beans; Suitable for obese people.

Herbal dietotherapy: "Cook with carp to cure beriberi and abdominal edema." Edible materia medica: "Red beans strengthen bones and muscles, pump muscles, and thin people eat them for a long time." Publisher: "Milk, boiled adzuki beans, drink juice." Compendium of Materia Medica: "Tongnai is cooked with carp, crucian carp and yellow hen."

[Don't eat] Red beans can dredge waterways, so people who urinate a lot don't eat them.

Tao Hongjing said: "Sex is draining body fluid, and eating for a long time makes people thin." Materialism of eating: "Eat thin people for a long time." New edition of materia medica: "adzuki bean can benefit water temporarily, but not for a long time." Dampness is mostly caused by qi deficiency, qi deficiency and diuresis, and it cannot be eliminated. In addition, the red bean patented the water in the lower body but could not benefit the wetness in the upper body. Covering the lower body is really wet and effective; The dampness and deficiency of the upper body are also very beneficial and inseparable. Compendium of Materia Medica: "adzuki bean, its sexual decline, will drop too much after taking it for a long time, and the body fluid will leak out, so the muscles will be thin and heavy." "Life and Taste Diet Spectrum": "Red beans should not be bitten by snakes within 100 days. "

Note: adzuki beans are not as nutritious as soybeans. Adzuki bean not only contains protein and fat, but also contains vitamins A, B, C, plant saponins and trace elements such as aluminum and copper. It should also be noted that adzuki bean and acacia are similar in appearance and both have aliases of "red bean". Sophora japonica seeds are produced in Guangdong, and their appearance is half red and half black. Acacia seeds were mistaken for adzuki beans to cause poisoning before, so don't confuse them when eating.

According to Jia Ming's "Food Instructions" in Yuan Dynasty, the flowers of adzuki beans are called "rotten women", which can relieve alcoholism and make people drunk.