Red beans, jujubes and lotus root are not mutually exclusive, and complement each other, can be cooked together.

Red beans and jujube lotus root cooked together has the effect of internal regulation, regulating blood, blood, people also spirit of the body is also good, this can be used as breakfast and dinner, can also play a role in weight loss. Red beans, jujubes and lotus root cooked together have health conditioning, spleen and stomach conditioning, clearing heat and removing fire conditioning, diuretic conditioning effect.

Red beans contain low calories, rich in vitamin E and potassium, magnesium, phosphorus, zinc, selenium and other active ingredients, is a typical high-potassium food, with heat detoxification, spleen and stomach, diuretic swelling, ventilation in addition to the annoyance, replenishment of blood to produce a variety of effects such as breast milk in the treatment of enteritis, dysentery, diarrhea, and carbuncles and boils on the treatment of good results.

Jujube vitamin content is very high, has "natural vitamin pill" reputation, with nourishing yin and yang, blood effect. Jujube for temperate crops, adaptability. Jujube has been known as "hardcore crop", with drought, flood-resistant characteristics, is the development of water-saving forestry and fruit industry, the preferred species.

Lotus root can eliminate food and diarrhea, appetizing and clearing heat, nourishing and nourishing, preventing internal bleeding, women and children, children and crone, frail and sick people on the good flow of food and nourishing good treasure.

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Red beans and red beans due to the appearance of recognition, often mistaken for the same thing, in fact, their taste, use are different.

Red beans are larger, more cylindrical, dark brownish-red; adzuki beans are more oval, more slender, smooth and shiny. Hardness, due to the lower hardness of red beans, after cooking become powder glutinous, exudes a unique bean flavor, can be made into red bean rice, red bean paste, red bean paste, etc.. The hardness of red beans is higher, even after a long time of soaking and cooking, or a very complete, not easy to rot when boiled, the soup is thinner.

Red beans are generally used for daily consumption, which helps to replenish the blood, red beans are stronger, ideal for medicine. According to Chinese medicine, the red bean is flat, sweet and sour, and can reduce dampness and swelling, clearing away heat, detoxification and pus. It can be decocted alone or paired with poria, zejiao, poria bark, etc., for the treatment of edema and distension, etc.; it can also be used in conjunction with ephedra, forsythia, mulberry white bark, etc., to regulate dampness-heat and jaundice.

Azuki beans are suitable for all kinds of edema patients, such as renal edema, cardiac edema, cirrhosis ascites, malnutrition edema and obesity.

Raw lotus root has the functions of eliminating blood stasis and clearing away heat, removing vexation and quenching thirst, stopping bleeding (nosebleed, blood in urine, blood in stool, uterine bleeding, etc.), and resolving phlegm. After the lotus root has been cooked, the nature of the cool to warm, losing the performance of eliminating blood stasis and clearing heat; and changed to have the spleen and stomach, nourishing the blood and nourishing the deficiency, and tonifying the five viscera, is very suitable for the elderly to eat.

Lotus root raw food can clear heat and moisturize the lungs, cool the blood to move silt.

Lotus root cooked to eat can strengthen the spleen and stomach, stop diarrhea and solid essence.

The elderly often eat lotus root can be adjusted in the stomach, blood and marrow, tranquility and brain, with the function of prolonging life.

Women avoid eating cold food after childbirth, only not avoid the lotus root, because it can eliminate silt.　

The tuberculosis patients eat lotus root has the effect of clearing the lungs and stopping bleeding, tuberculosis patients are most suitable for consumption.

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