What is the medicinal value of red beans?

In daily life, red beans are often mixed with other cereals to make porridge, which is a good complementary food. Eating red beans regularly has many benefits to the body. For example, it can promote urination, reduce swelling, and has a certain therapeutic effect on dysentery. Drinking some red bean soup after getting drunk can help you sober up. Red beans can discharge pus and disperse blood. The history of red bean cultivation in my country is about 2,000 years. Let’s take a look at the value of red beans.

Red beans are rich in starch and are called "valley of the heart" by Li Shizhen. Adzuki bean is a highly nutritious and multifunctional grain that is indispensable in people's lives. It is the dried mature seeds of the legume plant adzuki bean or red bean, which is harvested in autumn when the fruit is ripe but not cracked. It is mainly produced in Guangdong, Guangxi, Jiangxi and other places. Also known as japonica beans, they become very soft when cooked and have an unusually sweet, yet quite strong flavour. Native to China, adzuki beans are the seeds of an annual shrub that are prized in the Far East for their medicinal properties, and have been added to rice and soup for thousands of years. Also due to their sweetness, red beans are a common ingredient in oriental desserts.

Red beans have the effects of clearing the mind and strengthening the spleen. Adding lotus seeds and lilies can cure dry lungs, dry coughs, enhance the vitality of internal organs and enhance physical strength. Health preservation is also an important part of skin care, combining external adjustment with internal nourishment. Chinese medicine experts believe that red beans have the effect of reducing swelling and slimming the body. Suitable for people with all types of edema, including patients with malnutrition edema. The weather is hot and humid in summer, and some people will experience edema. Drinking red bean soup at this time has a very good therapeutic effect on edema. If you drink red bean soup to treat edema when it first appears, you will see the edema subside the next day. If you continue taking it for about 8 days, the edema will disappear completely.

Although red beans are very valuable, they are not suitable for everyone. For example, people with yin deficiency or people with clear and long urination should not use red beans. Although red beans can reduce swelling and promote lactation, if you eat too many red beans, it will make the eater's body dark and thin. Currently, red beans are mainly used to treat mumps and ascites caused by cirrhosis.