Red bean

Red bean (red bean, adzuki bean)

[nature and taste]: sweet acid, flat, non-toxic.

Channel tropism: entering the heart, small intestine, kidney and bladder.

[efficacy]: it can remove heat and toxin, disperse evil blood, relieve fullness, facilitate urination and pass milk.

Indications: carbuncle, abscess and blood, lower abdomen fullness, adverse urination, edema, beriberi, dysphoria, thirst, alcoholic disease, dysentery, jaundice, intestinal hemorrhoids, lower blood, milk obstruction; external application for heat toxin, carbuncle, hematoma, sprain.

[taboo]: those with Yin deficiency but without damp heat and those with clear urine should not eat.

[note]: red bean, also known as rice red bean, is better for its tight grain, purple color and red color. It has a good effect on reducing swelling and milk. But eating for a long time makes people black, thin and dry. There is another kind of red black bean in traditional Chinese medicine, which is produced in Guangdong Province. It is characterized by half red and half black. Please pay attention to identification and do not misuse it.

[reference of tested prescriptions]:

1. Red bean and carp (or crucian carp) soup, diuretic detumescence, treatment of beriberi is very effective, and the treatment of children due to blood heat and multiple boils in summer.

2. Red beans 120 grams, boiling soup when tea, treatment of edema.

3. 250 grams of red beans, porridge food, milk can be.

4. Stir fried red beans, fried instead of tea, drink at will, the treatment of postpartum lochia, abdominal pain.

5. Treatment of swallowing glass dregs by mistake: Boil red beans properly, drink and take them as much as possible, and then take laxatives. Red beans and glass are discharged with stool.

6. Soak and mash the red bean with water, use vinegar or honey or egg white to make it into a paste, and apply it to the affected area to cure mumps and furuncle.

7. Grind red beans into powder, apply cold water to the affected area (ulcerated sores, apply around the sores, so as to discharge pus), twice a day, treat heat poison carbuncle, traumatic hematoma and sprain.

8. Red bean porridge: 30-50g red bean, boiled until half cooked, add 100g japonica rice with porridge, light food is appropriate, add sugar seasoning can also be eaten. It has the functions of invigorating spleen and stomach, clearing away heat and toxin, promoting diuresis, detumescence and promoting milk circulation. It is suitable for edema disease, lower limb moisture, adverse urination, thin stool, obesity, postpartum milk shortage and other diseases.

9. Maogen red bean porridge: clean 200g fresh Maogen (50g dry product), decoct it in water for half an hour, remove the residue, add 200g japonica rice, and take it with porridge, which can cure edema, adverse urination and other diseases.