"Job's tears, in traditional Chinese medicine, called "Job's tears", "Shennong's Classic of the Materia Medica" will be listed as the top grade, it can cure dampness paralysis, benefit the stomach and intestines, eliminate edema, strengthen the spleen and stomach, long service light body and benefit gas. Red beans, known as "red beans" in traditional Chinese medicine, also has obvious water, swelling, spleen and stomach effect, because it is red, red into the heart, so it can also complement the heart. Modern people have a lot of mental stress, heart qi deficiency, dietary disorders, 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. The boiling into a porridge, intended to make its active ingredients fully absorbed by the body, but also does not give any burden to the spleen and stomach.

Dietary taboos

When simmering barley and red bean porridge, never add rice into it! Because rice grows in the water, contains moisture, wetness sticky, so the rice is thick once boiled. Red beans and barley are expectorant, itself does not contain moisture, so how they simmer are not thick, soup is very clear. Chinese medicine is precisely the use of this clear nature, to get rid of the body's moisture, once you add in rice, it is the same as adding in moisture, so the whole porridge is thick. Although the flavor may be better, but for health is not a good thing, just because of that a handful of rice, all the red beans, barley is wasted, the efficacy of all."