Suitable:

1, renal edema, cardiac edema, cirrhosis ascites, malnutrition edema, and obesity and other conditions suitable for patients to eat, such as with the fish, carp or yellow hen with food, swelling effect is better.

2, postpartum milk and postpartum edema women are also suitable for food, with red beans decoction soup or porridge to eat.

Contraindication:

People who have a lot of urine should not eat red beans. Red beans boiled juice for a long time to eat red beans people black thin knot dry; Yin deficiency and no dampness and heat people avoid eating red beans; snake bite people within 100 days avoid red beans.

Expanded:

In the simmering, red beans are more difficult to cook, generally suitable for soup; and red beans will be cooked for a long time will be sticky, generally suitable for porridge; in the therapeutic effect, the red beans in addition to the effectiveness of the strong medicinal conditioning, and red beans are mainly for food.

The "Compendium of Materia Medica" believes that the red beans to tight small and red dull color into the medicine, its slightly larger and bright red color, and does not cure the disease.

So, there are some choices to be made when choosing red beans.

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