The bean is planted in the field between the mulberry outlet online, and it is an ancient method of farming, which is the same from the south of the Yangtze River to the land of Ba Shu. By the time the summer into the fall, broad bean stalks, pods are withered for the dark brown, collected in the field of the sun drying to play down, is the grains of the round, with a light tea dark brown shell of the old hu beans.

1, Hu beans also known as fava beans nutritious. It is determined that each 100 grams of broad beans containing protein 28.2 grams, 0.8 grams of fat, carbohydrates 48.6 grams, also contains crude fiber and calcium, phosphorus, iron and various vitamins and other nutrients, shells with tannin. Fava beans are low-calorie food for patients with high blood lipids, hypertension and cardiovascular disease more ideal food.

2, broad beans in addition to food, its seedlings, flowers, beans, shells, stems and leaves can be used in medicine. Chinese medicine believes that the broad bean taste sweet, flat, non-toxic, spleen, tonic, beneficial to the gas, diuresis, stop bleeding, can cure diaphragmatic food, edema, vomiting blood, hemoptysis and other diseases. Fava bean seedlings can be used to sober up, but also can cure postpartum abdominal pain. Dried broad bean flowers can cure vomiting blood, hemoptysis, nosebleeds, and antihypertensive effect. Fava beans are also a good medicine for sores, the young beans mashed into mud on the affected area, can cure boils and sores. Dried bean petals ground into a fine powder to mix incense wipe, can cure the face of spring ringworm, but also can make the skin tender, have a certain cosmetic effect. Bean shells fried charcoal for the end, add the yellow dan, mixing sesame oil, for rubbing yellow water sores, astringent yellow water, itching effect. Tender broad beans cooked rice can be stomach, laxative, on habitual constipation has a good effect. Take the shell of the beans fried, soak water as a tea, can eliminate heat and fire.

3, eating taboos

It is worth noting that a small number of people eating fava beans can cause "fava bean yellow disease". Its onset is due to the lack of red blood cells in the body of a substance called "6-phosphate glucose dehydrogenase", eating beans and their products or sucking pollen, red blood cells are prone to suffer from the destruction of pyrimidine nucleosides and other substances in the beans and produce an acute hemolytic anemia, which toxic symptoms similar to gangrene. In patients with fava bean yellow, about 25% have a family history, therefore, where parents have a history of fava bean disease, their children must not eat fava beans, in order to prevent the occurrence of fava bean yellow disease.