The red bean and coix seed tea I mentioned in today's small series has actually been used by people to eliminate dampness and evil spirits in ancient times, and it is recorded in Compendium of Materia Medica.
Common damp evil, many people like to drink red bean and barley porridge, which is actually wrong. Red beans in traditional Chinese medicine refer to red beans, which have the function of eliminating dampness. Red beans mainly supplement potassium to protect the heart, red beans are flat and coix seed is cold. Eating red bean and barley porridge for a long time has a general effect of eliminating dampness. On the other hand, cold food can lead to spleen deficiency and aggravate moisture.
The correct prescription for eliminating dampness is adzuki bean and coix seed tea in Compendium of Materia Medica, which contains adzuki bean (eliminating dampness and detoxifying), coix seed (eliminating dampness and reducing swelling), Euryale euryales seed (invigorating spleen and eliminating dampness) and so on. It is best to stir-fry coix seed cold salad.
The combination of the three can strengthen the spleen and eliminate dampness, but it is not recommended to cook it yourself. On the one hand, it is difficult to boil, so its efficacy cannot be fully exerted. On the other hand, it's troublesome. There are many red bean and coix seed teas in the form of teabags, which are convenient and have good effects.