Bitter in taste and flat in nature, it enters the liver and spleen meridians, and has the effects of invigorating spleen and kidney and nourishing psychological qi.

red bean

Sweet, sour and flat in nature, it has the effects of strengthening the spleen and eliminating dampness, inducing diuresis to reduce swelling, detoxifying and expelling pus.

mung bean

Sweet in taste and cold in nature, it enters the heart and stomach, and has the effects of clearing away heat and toxic materials, relieving summer heat and benefiting water.

black soya bean

Sweet in taste and flat in nature, it enters the liver and kidney meridians, and has the functions of relieving exterior syndrome, clearing heat, nourishing blood and calming the liver, nourishing kidney and nourishing yin, and tonifying deficiency and black hair, as well as moistening kidney dryness to stop night sweats and tonifying kidney deficiency to stop enuresis.

dark plum

It tastes sour and astringent, and has a flat nature. Meridian tropism belongs to liver, spleen, lung and large intestine meridian. Efficacy: astringing lung, astringing intestine, promoting fluid production, and calming the bowels. Indications: chronic cough due to lung deficiency, chronic diarrhea and dysentery, deficiency heat to quench thirst, syncope, vomiting and abdominal pain.

(1) If you encounter too much yellow excrement, short temper and thin tongue coating every day, you can drink some Sandou drink (soybean+mung bean+black bean) to collect the floating internal heat. Soybeans can replenish the spleen and restore the spleen to raise the stomach and lower the qi. Mung beans can clear liver fire, soothe liver wood, and restore the normal function of liver qi; Black beans can tonify kidney and nourish kidney water, and at the same time, they can restrain the fire of gallbladder meridian. If exogenous fever occurs, you can also drink Sandou drink to help reduce fever, especially the fever caused by deficiency of both qi and yin, deficiency of lung and kidney yin, dryness invading the lung and deficiency of body fluid after high fever.

(2) People with yin deficiency constitution, or after exercise, who sweat more, can drink some ebony Sandou drink (ebony+soybean+mung bean+black bean), ebony can promote fluid production and clear away heat, relieve summer heat and quench thirst, and with Sandou drink, it can nourish yin and produce body fluid. For people with phlegm-dampness constitution, nourishing yin should not be excessive, and don't drink it when the humidity is too heavy.

(3) To clear away summer heat and damp, you can use the version of removing dampness and clearing heat (soybean+mung bean+adzuki bean), which helps to remove dampness and nourish the heart; Mung beans can clear liver fire and relieve summer heat; Soybean tonifies spleen and protects middle energizer.