Red beans have a high medicinal and good health care, red beans medicinal can clear heat and detoxification, spleen and stomach, diuretic swelling, qi in addition to annoyance, can treat urinary discomfort, spleen edema, beriberi, etc., since ancient times has been a concern for the people, Li Shizhen called red beans for the "heart of the valley".

Such as red beans and carp soup consumption, edema, foot, urinary difficulties and other therapeutic effects, but also to treat cirrhosis of the liver, liver ascites, make up for the body; red beans and winter melon with the cooking of the soup is the whole body edema of the therapeutic good; red beans and lentils, barley, can be cooked with the treatment of diarrhea. In addition, red beans can also be used with traditional Chinese medicine, such as red beans with forsythia and angelica decoction, can treat liver abscess; red beans with dandelion, licorice decoction, can treat intestinal pain.