The red beans in red bean barley soup are red beans.

The "red bean" in Chinese medicine refers to the red bean. Red beans are good for the heart, red beans are good for dampness; from the shape, red beans are more round, red beans are long and thin.

Fried Job's tears, red beans are more difficult to cook, before cooking porridge can be used hot water to soak Job's tears and red beans for 1 hour before cooking, can make the porridge easy to cook, release all the nutrients. In the simmering red bean barley porridge, can add a little gravy, to enhance the role of the spleen. Because the spleen is the main transportation, the role of the body's water and liquid absorption, transfer and dissemination.

Expanded Information:

Crimson peas and red peas, both of which belong to the same cowpea genus and are similar in appearance and taste, can still be differentiated on closer inspection.

1, red beans are long and thin, while red beans particles are more round, slightly larger than red beans.

2, both have the effect of eliminating dampness, but on the elimination of dampness, water, swelling, detoxification, pus efficacy, the red bean is far less than the red bean. "Compendium of Materia Medica" recorded: "red beans to tight small and red dark color into the medicine, which is slightly larger and bright red light, and does not cure the disease." Said is the difference between red small beans and red small beans.

"Shennong Ben Cao Jing" in the red beans "main water, discharge carbuncle pus and blood". The medicinal properties of the theory of its "elimination of heat poison canker sores, dissipation of bad blood, not exhaustion, annoyance and fullness. Treatment of edema skin muscle distension and fullness".

Modern pharmacological studies have shown that the saponins contained in red beans have a laxative, diuretic and decongestive effect, can be detoxified, detoxification, for kidney disease and heart disease, have a certain degree of efficacy; contains folic acid has the effect of prolactin; with lower blood pressure, lowering blood lipids, regulating blood glucose, prevention of stones, weight loss and other effects.

Baidu Encyclopedia - red bean barley soup

People's Daily Online - the first to promote the "red bean barley porridge"