That is, the sum of red beans, soybeans, mung beans, lentils and black beans.
Red beans:
Has diuretic, dehumidifying, blood circulation promoting, pus expelling, heat and toxic materials clearing away, bowel relaxing, qi invigorating and menstruation regulating effects. Especially suitable for anemia, stomach and kidney weakness, the elderly and the weak.
Soybean:
Has effect in invigorating spleen, eliminate dampness, promoting diuresis, diminishing inflammation, removing toxic substance and promoting diuresis. It is a good food for patients with cardiovascular diseases and has a certain curative effect on diabetes. Practice has proved that people who often eat soybeans or bean products have less diabetes.
Mung beans:
Has that effect of clearing away heat and toxic material, relieving summer-heat, promoting diuresis, quenching thirst, relieve vexation, improving eyesight, lowering blood pressure, relieving sore throat, moistening skin, reducing blood fat and protecting liver. It is often used to prevent and treat summer heat, polydipsia, nephritis, edema, sores, gastroenteritis, pharyngolaryngitis and keratitis.
Lentils:
Has the effects of invigorating stomach, regulating middle warmer, relieving summer heat, removing dampness, invigorating spleen, lowering qi, tonifying deficiency and stopping diarrhea. The ancient book "prolong life" says: "bean porridge and nourishing the five internal organs."
Black bean: It has the functions of promoting blood circulation and detoxicating, expelling wind and promoting diuresis, tonifying kidney and nourishing yin, relieving exterior syndrome and clearing heat, nourishing liver and improving eyesight.
Cooking these five kinds of beans into porridge can gather the essence of plant protein, and the biological nutritional value is greatly improved through food complementarity.