Brief introduction of red beans
Red beans mean acacia. They are sweet, bitter, flat and slightly toxic. It can enter the heart meridian and lung meridian, and has the effects of clearing away heat and toxic materials, resolving phlegm, nourishing yin and blood, expelling wind and clearing heat, reducing dryness and relieving itching, expelling toxin and caring skin. They are suitable for inflammation, such as sores, swelling and pain.
Brief introduction of adzuki bean
Adzuki bean tastes sweet and sour, and can enter the heart meridian, spleen meridian and small intestine meridian. Has the effects of invigorating spleen, nourishing stomach, promoting diuresis, removing dampness, removing toxic substances and benefiting qi. It has a good curative effect on spleen deficiency, wet weight and weight. Eating adzuki beans regularly is especially beneficial to heart disease and kidney disease.
The difference between red beans and adzuki beans
Although the appearance of adzuki bean and adzuki bean are the same, they belong to the same species, both of which are leguminous plants with similar properties and nutritional components, but adzuki bean is more effective, so adzuki bean is used in traditional Chinese medicine, while adzuki bean is only used for daily consumption.
Adzuki beans can be eaten with bean sprouts like mung beans, but red beans can't. Red adzuki bean is more suitable for medicinal diet because of its high medicinal value, while red bean is more suitable for ordinary home cooking. Adzuki bean has high nutritional value and low calorie, which is more suitable for people with hyperglycemia or weight loss than red bean, and is also more suitable for the elderly.