Red beans clear away heat and detoxification, strengthen the spleen and stomach, diuretic and swelling, and pass the qi to get rid of the annoyance, etc. It can treat urinary incontinence, edema of spleen deficiency, and beriberi.

The red beans and carp soup soup, edema, foot, urinary difficulties and other therapeutic effects, but also the treatment of cirrhosis of the liver, ascites, make up for the body; red beans and winter melon with the soup is the solution to the edema of the body's therapeutic good; red beans and lentils, coix seed with cooking can treat 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 be used to treat intestinal pain.

The nutritional composition of red beans is similar to that of mung beans, and even exceeds that of mung beans in some components. Therefore, eating more red beans is very beneficial to the body.