Red bean and coix seed water is a drink boiled with red bean and coix seed as raw materials, which can reduce swelling and eliminate dampness, and has low calorie. It is rich in vitamin E, potassium, magnesium, phosphorus, zinc, selenium and other active ingredients, nourishing blood and benefiting qi, and has the effects of whitening skin, clearing heat and expelling toxin.
Practice steps:
1: Wash job's tears and red beans, soak them for 24 hours, or stay overnight, put them in a boiling pot, and pour enough water (the amount of water is equivalent to that when making porridge in peacetime).
2: Open fire and cook until the water in the pot boils, then turn off the fire and stew for one hour.
3. Fire again, boil until the water in the pot boils again, turn off the fire, filter out the soup as water, and eat red beans and barley as rice or porridge.
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Nutritional value of ingredients:
Red beans: they were called "small glutinous rice" and "red glutinous rice" in ancient times. The flowers are yellow or light gray. Red beans are favored by women because of their miraculous slimming effect-red beans are flat and cool, sweet, and contain protein, fat, sugar, vitamin B, potassium, iron and phosphorus. It has the effects of removing toxic heat, dispersing evil blood, inducing diuresis to reduce swelling, detoxifying and expelling pus, and relieving fullness.
It can be used for treating water swelling, beriberi edema, jaundice, hematuria, rheumatic fever, carbuncle, swelling, soreness, carbuncle and abdominal pain. Red beans can promote the activation of heart blood vessels and diuresis; People who are afraid of cold, low blood pressure, and easy to get tired often eat red beans to improve these discomforts.
In addition, red beans also have the functions of invigorating stomach, promoting fluid production, eliminating dampness and benefiting qi, and are good medicinal and healthy foods. Red beans are good friends of women's health, and rich iron can make people look rosy. Eating more red beans also has the effects of enriching blood, promoting blood circulation, strengthening physical strength and enhancing resistance. Breastfeeding women eat more red beans, which can promote the secretion of milk.
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