Tips Dutch beans are flat and sweet, and have the effects of regulating qi, facilitating urination, eliminating sores and detoxifying, benefiting the spleen and stomach, promoting fluid production and quenching thirst, eliminating hiccups, stopping diarrhea and quenching thirst, and promoting lactation. Regular consumption has therapeutic effects on spleen and stomach weakness, small abdominal distension, vomiting and diarrhea, postpartum galactorrhea, upset and thirsty. Its seeds can be ground into powder for external use to remove carbuncle and reduce swelling. Cooking porridge with glutinous rice and red dates has the effects of nourishing the spleen and stomach, warming and dispelling cold, promoting fluid production and tonifying deficiency, strengthening tendons and increasing body mass.