[Attribute] Sweet in taste and flat in nature. It can strengthen the spleen, promote diuresis, promote blood circulation and detoxify.

[Reference] contains protein, fat, sugar, phosphorus, calcium, iron and vitamin B 1. B2, nicotinic acid, saponin and other ingredients.

【 Use 】 Used for edema and beriberi; Postpartum hypogalactia, diarrhea, jaundice or dysuria; Hemorrhoids, intestinal carbuncle.

Adzuki bean is not only delicious food, but also a panacea for doctors. Shennong's Classic of Materia Medica says, "It is mainly used to treat edema and expel carbuncle, swelling and pus and blood". The theory of medicinal materia medica can "cure heat toxin and disperse evil blood" "Compendium of Materia Medica" records that adzuki bean is "sweet in taste, flat in nature, non-toxic, with edema, abscess and pus, cold and heat, diarrhea, urine, toxic heat, blood stasis, anxiety and spleen and stomach. ..... "Doctors believe that it has special effects on carbuncle swelling through clinical practice. For example, Zhu's prescription said, "This medicine can cure all carbuncle, sore, scab and redness, regardless of good or evil, but it will not heal if it is mixed with water." Modern medicine also found that adzuki bean has obvious inhibitory effect on Staphylococcus aureus, Shigella flexneri and Salmonella typhi.