1. adzuki bean contains more saponins, which can stimulate the intestine, so it has a good diuretic effect, can relieve alcoholism and detoxify, and is beneficial to heart disease, kidney disease and edema;

2. adzuki bean has more dietary fiber, which has good effects of relaxing bowels, lowering blood pressure, lowering blood fat, regulating blood sugar, detoxifying and resisting cancer, preventing stones and strengthening body and losing weight;

3. adzuki bean is a kind of food rich in folic acid. Eating adzuki bean by pregnant women and lactating mothers can promote lactation.

Common collocation of adzuki bean:

1. Red beans and carp (or crucian carp) are boiled and taken, which is effective in eliminating dampness and swelling, treating beriberi, and treating children's blood-heat sores and swelling in summer.

2. Red beans 120g, boiled soup as tea to treat edema.

3. 250 grams of red beans, boiled porridge, can pass milk.

4. Stir-fry red beans, fry them with water instead of tea, and drink them at will to treat postpartum lochia and abdominal pain.

5. Handling of swallowing glass slag by mistake: Cook red beans properly, eat as much as possible, and then take laxatives. Red beans and glass are excreted with stool.

6. Soak red beans in water until soft, mash them, mix them with proper amount of water or vinegar or honey or egg white, and apply them externally to the affected area to treat parotitis and heat furuncle.

7. The adzuki bean is ground into powder and applied to the affected area with cold water (festering sores are pasted around the sores to expel pus) twice a day to treat heat toxic carbuncle, traumatic hematoma and sprain.

8. Red bean porridge: 30-50g red beans, boiled to half-cooked, with glutinous rice 100g porridge, which should be eaten lightly or seasoned with white sugar. Has the effects of invigorating spleen, regulating stomach, clearing away heat and toxic materials, promoting diuresis, relieving swelling, and promoting lactation. Suitable for edema, lower limb dampness, dysuria, thin stool, obesity, postpartum hypogalactia, etc.

9. Grass-root red bean porridge: 200 grams of fresh grass roots (50 grams of dry products) are washed, decocted in water for half an hour, and then dregs are removed, and 200 grams of japonica rice is added, which can be taken as porridge to cure edema and urine pain.