Red beans are sweet, sour and flat, and have the functions of diuresis, detumescence, detoxification and pus discharge, while coix seed is sweet, light and cool, and has the functions of strengthening the spleen, promoting diuresis, removing arthralgia and stopping diarrhea, and clearing away heat and pus discharge. Both of these ingredients have a certain dehumidification effect, so they can be dehumidified without frying.

However, after frying, the surface of red beans and barley will undergo coking reaction. If used for soaking in water or cooking porridge, the fragrance will be more intense and can stimulate appetite.

Red beans and barley can be fried together or separately.

Because red beans and coix seed are originally cooked together, and both of them are hard in texture, there is no specific regulation on whether red beans and coix seed are fried together or separately, which can be decided according to your own preferences, but relatively speaking, separate frying will be more conducive to the control of the heat.

However, it should be noted that red beans and barley must be fried with low fire. Once red beans and coix seed give off a faint burnt smell, they need to stop frying immediately to avoid being fried due to excessive heat.

How to cook red bean and coix seed water 1 with good dehumidification effect? Material selection: when selecting materials, you need to choose flat red beans, that is, "red beans", instead of conventional round red beans, because only red beans have the effect of removing dampness and swelling.

2. Soaking: Before boiling the water of ormosia coix seed, it is necessary to soak ormosia coix seed first, which can promote the release of effective components, and it is suggested that it is best to clean ormosia coix seed before soaking it, so that the soaked water can also be used for boiling water.

4 how to determine whether you are cold or damp, the symptoms are different.

Cold and dampness For people with cold and dampness constitution, the cold in the body is relatively heavy, usually manifested as white tongue coating, tooth marks, cold limbs, chills, cold joints, loss of appetite, clear urine and frequent diarrhea.

Dampness and heat for people in damp heat constitution, the body heat is relatively heavy, usually manifested as yellow tongue coating, sticky mouth, backache, fear of sweating due to heat, greasy skin, yellow urine, sticky stool, abdominal distension and nausea.