Edible people: patients with renal edema, cardiac edema, ascites due to cirrhosis, malnutrition edema and obesity are suitable for eating. If they can eat with mullet, carp or yellow hen, the swelling reduction effect will be better; At the same time, women with postpartum lack of milk and postpartum edema should also eat it, and drink it with red beans or cook porridge.
Red beans can be eaten whole, or used for cooking, porridge and red bean soup. Red bean starch content is high, it is silty after steaming, and it has a unique aroma, so it is often used to make bean paste for the stuffing of various cakes. It is delicious and has been deeply loved by Chinese people since ancient times.
Red beans can also be made into red bean sprouts and eaten with mung bean sprouts. It has the effects of clearing away heat and toxic materials, inducing diuresis to reduce swelling, invigorating spleen and promoting diuresis, resolving food stagnation and removing blood stasis, etc. It is an essential household food in daily life, and can be used in dishes such as "Red Bean Pork Rib Soup".
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Efficacy of adzuki bean
1, promoting diuresis and eliminating edema.
Ancient physicians used adzuki bean as a diuretic to treat various edema patients, including cardiogenic edema, nephrotic edema, ascites due to liver cirrhosis, beriberi edema, edema of pregnant women or postpartum. In the Ming Dynasty, there was an effective prescription for eating in Li Shizhen, which used adzuki beans to "cook with carp, crucian carp and yellow hen, and promote diuresis to reduce swelling".
From the point of view of modern medicine, whether fish or chicken is cooked with adzuki bean, on the one hand, it is a highly nutritious high-protein diet, on the other hand, it has diuretic effect. Therefore, it is indeed a method to treat both the symptoms and root causes of malnutrition edema and hypoproteinemia, or edema of kidney disease, heart disease and liver disease.
2. Pass milk
Ancient doctors and folks used it for postpartum milk deficiency, that is, cooking porridge or simmering soup with red beans. Chen Ziming, a doctor in the Song Dynasty, also recorded in "A Woman's Recipe": "Give a woman a vegetarian diet. Seven days after delivery, the breast pulse will not work, and the medication will be ineffective. Occasionally, I will get a liter of red beans, cook porridge and eat it, and I will do it that night."
As a famous gynecologist, Chen Ziming, after his wife's medication for lack of milk failed, adopted adzuki bean porridge to get effective, which can further explain the reliability of adzuki bean's breast-promoting effect.
3. Eliminate obesity
In the practice of Zen longevity diet advocated by a Japanese longevity scientist, it was found that adzuki bean is a good longevity food. Statistics also show that thin people live longer and fat people live shorter. In the Tang Dynasty, Chen Shiliang's Herbs of Eating Habits recorded that adzuki beans were "skinny for a long time".
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