The efficacy of red bean barley powder is mainly to dispel dampness, can get rid of the body's dampness, very suitable for summer and the body's dampness is heavy people to eat. It can be eaten as a meal, but also as a tea, is a good product to dispel dampness and strengthen the spleen.
Barley, in traditional Chinese medicine, called "Job's tears", "Shennong Materia Medica" will be classified as a top quality, it can cure the paralysis of wet, good gastrointestinal, edema, spleen and stomach, served for a long time to lighten up the body and benefit from the gas. Red beans, known as "red beans" in traditional Chinese medicine, also has a clear water, swelling, spleen and stomach effect, because it is red, red into the heart, so it can also tonic heart.
Modern people have a lot of mental stress, heart qi deficiency, poor diet, less exercise, spleen deficiency and dampness. Both to get rid of dampness, but also to complement the heart, but also to strengthen the spleen and stomach, non-barley and red beans. Boiled into a porridge, the intention is to make its active ingredients fully absorbed by the body, but also does not give the spleen and stomach to cause any burden.
About barley and red beans "swelling" role, is also very interesting. We must not think that the swelling is edema. Try to look at today's people, ten inside at least five or six body fat, which is also swelling, called the body bloated.
In Chinese medicine, obesity or edema, means that the body has wet. Water can not flow with the blood flow, stagnation in the body between the cells, so that the body quickly expand. Edema is so, obesity is so, only the degree of deep and shallow. Drugs or foods that are very strong in removing dampness can get rid of these water fluids that are retained in the body, which can also reduce swelling. Therefore, the treatment of edema must use red beans, and practice has proved that Job's tears and red bean porridge has a good weight loss effect, both weight loss, but does not hurt the body, especially for the middle-aged and elderly obese people, the effect is particularly good.
Dampness is the root cause of all kinds of modern chronic and stubborn diseases, and barley and red bean soup is the best medicine for dampness. I usually give the patient after the prescription, always tell them in the diet of some precautions, which said the most is to go back to boiled barley red bean soup as a tea. For patients who do not have this condition, I will let him use barley and red bean congee, as the main food for dinner.
The barley and red bean congee has an advantage, that is, how to simmer will not be sticky and thick, the bottom is always simmering rotten red beans and barley, the top is a light red soup, and barley and red beans in the soup, most of the effective ingredients. Simmering porridge, water put more, these soups will be enough to drink half a day, just as tea to drink ......
Barley and red bean porridge practice: barley and red beans according to 2:1 with a good (about the number of it can be la). Wash and soak barley and red beans overnight. Put all the ingredients into the pot, add water and boil with fierce fire, change the slow fire to cook until barley rotten can be. When drinking, you can add some rock sugar or brown sugar as appropriate.
In addition to the red bean barley porridge, you can also learn more about the nature of various foods, flavor, example, their own additions and subtractions, composed of more suitable for their own physique of the dietary prescription to. In this way, the food can really become a good health. For example -
Darkness, lack of spirit, and even palpitations, sleepy, emptiness in the heart: Job's tears and red beans with cinnamon
Insomnia, or face rashes, pimples: Job's tears and red beans with lily of the valley, lotus seeds
Cold pain in the stomach, poor appetite, fear of cold: Job's tears and red beans with ginger
Kidney deficiency: Job's tears and red beans with ginger
These are the most common foodstuffs in the world, but they can be used for a variety of purposes, such as to improve the health of the body. p>Kidney deficiency: Job's tears and red beans with black beans
Foot fungus: Job's tears and red beans with soybeans
Cough: Rice and red beans with pears
Loss of appetite, lean body: Job's tears and red beans with yam
Diarrhea, abdominal pain, diabetes: Job's tears and red beans with pumpkin
Vulnerability, premature ejaculation, spermatorrhea, excessive nocturnal enuresis: Job's tears and red beans with Gorgon fruit
Pregnant women I advise you not to do this, because rice contains moisture, and red beans and barley are dampness, once you add in rice, it is the same as adding in moisture, although the taste may be better, but for health is not a good thing, because of that a handful of rice, all the red beans, barley are all wasted, the effect is not.
Although barley has a good beauty care effect, but not everyone is suitable to eat. So in the end what people can not eat barley? Chinese medicine experts pointed out that the following kinds of people can not eat Job's tears -
1, Job's tears will make the body cold and weak, so the cold body is not suitable for long-term Job's tears.
2, is in the menstrual period of women should also avoid eating barley.
3, barley contains high viscosity of carbohydrates, which may hinder digestion, so people with poor digestive function can not eat barley.
4, pregnant women should not eat more Job's tears, Job's tears have a diuretic effect, may cause the body's sodium and potassium ion imbalance, the water will be discharged more, the amount of amniotic fluid may be reduced, but will not cause fetal abnormality, pregnant women can eat, but can not eat more.
Tips:
Although barley has the function of reducing blood fat and blood sugar, but after all, it is only a health food, can not be used as a medicine, so patients with symptoms of hyperlipidemia, or to find a doctor for treatment, can not consume their own barley to treat.
Barley contains more starch, after brewing there will be a paste, but not very thick, thick products must have added gum to increase the sense of consistency, which is to deceive consumers, should pay special attention.