Generally speaking, barley and red bean porridge is good for strengthening the spleen and stomach, while keeping the human body's skin shiny and delicate. Red bean and barley soup is best to drink during the day, you can drink in the morning and at noon, it can play the role of drainage and dampness, and drinking at night will cause edema.
Barley, in traditional Chinese medicine called "Job's tears", "Shennong Ben Cao Jing" will be classified as the top, it can cure wet paralysis, benefit the stomach and intestines, eliminating water retention, strengthen the spleen and stomach, long service light body benefit gas. Legend has it that Job's tears have a whitening effect and are very popular among artists, also known as "artiste rice".
Red beans, known as "red beans" in traditional Chinese medicine, also has a clear water, swelling, spleen and stomach effect, because it is red, red into the heart, so it can also complement the heart.
Modern people have a lot of mental stress, heart qi deficiency, poor diet, less exercise, spleen deficiency and dampness. Both to get rid of dampness, but also to complement the heart, but also to strengthen the spleen and stomach, non-barley and red beans. Will be boiled into a porridge, intended to make its active ingredients fully absorbed by the body, but also does not give the spleen and stomach to cause any burden.