Introduction: Adzuki beans, also known as red beans, small red beans, or red small beans. Adzuki beans are rich in starch, so they are also called "rice beans" by people. It has the functions of "promoting body fluids, promoting urination, relieving bloating, reducing swelling, and stopping vomiting", and was called "the valley of the ladle" by Li Shizhen.
[Medicinal Functions of Adzuki Beans (Red Beans)]
Clearing heat and detoxifying, strengthening the spleen and benefiting the stomach, promoting urination and reducing swelling, relieving flatulence and restlessness, etc. It can be used to treat urinary difficulty, edema due to spleen deficiency, beriberi, etc.
Stewing adzuki beans and carp into soup has a therapeutic effect on edema, beriberi, and difficult urination. It can also treat cirrhosis and ascites, and replenish body weakness. The soup cooked with adzuki beans and winter melon is a good therapeutic food for relieving systemic edema. Cooking adzuki beans with hyacinth beans and coix seeds can treat diarrhea. In addition, adzuki beans can also be used with traditional Chinese medicines. For example, adzuki beans cooked with forsythia and angelica can treat liver abscess; adzuki beans cooked with dandelion and licorice can treat intestinal pain. The nutritional components of adzuki beans are similar to those of mung beans, and even exceed them in some components. Therefore, eating more adzuki beans is very beneficial to the body.
Adzuki Bean Paste
[Nutritional Components]
Adzuki beans contain more components such as saponins, dietary fiber, folic acid, etc.
[Medicinal Effects]
(1). The saponins in adzuki beans can stimulate the intestines. Therefore, it has a good diuretic effect, can relieve alcohol and detoxify, and is beneficial for patients with heart disease, kidney disease, and edema.
(2). The dietary fiber contained in adzuki beans has the effects of moistening the intestines and promoting bowel movements, lowering blood pressure, lowering blood lipids, regulating blood sugar, detoxifying and anti-cancer, preventing stones, and fitness and weight loss.
(3). Adzuki beans contain folic acid. Eating more adzuki beans by postpartum and lactating women has the effect of promoting milk secretion.
Chinese Yam and Adzuki Bean Cake
[How to Eat]
It is advisable to mix with other grain foods, usually made into bean paste buns, bean rice or bean porridge. These are scientific ways to eat.
[Suitable for]
Generally everyone can eat it, especially suitable for people with edema and lactating women. Adzuki beans are diuretic, so people with frequent urination should pay attention to eating less.
[Appropriate Amount]
30 grams each time.
Condensed Milk and Adzuki Bean with Coix Seed Soup
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