Making tea instead of processing medicine and food homology (8)-Chixiaodou
Chixiaodou, alias: red bean, red rice bean, rice bean, protein bean, chishan bean, similar in appearance to red bean but slightly slender. An annual herb, Chixiaodou is mainly used in Chinese medicinal materials. It is often mixed with red beans. It has the effects of hydration, swelling, detoxification, and pus removal. It is widely cultivated throughout the country. Chixiaodou can be eaten whole, or used to cook rice, porridge, and make red bean soup. It is often used to make red bean paste as a filling, which is delicious and delicious.
【Nature and Flavor】: Sweet and sour; flat in nature.
【Guijing】: Guixin, spleen, and small intestine meridians.
[Function]: Relieve dampness and reduce swelling
【Indications】: It has the effects of removing heat toxins, reducing swelling, diuresis, clearing breasts, and enriching blood. It mainly treats heart and kidney organ edema, mumps, pain, swelling, pus and blood, and milk obstruction. It is especially used in gynecological prescriptions. External application to treat sprains, hematomas and heat toxin carbuncle and other diseases.
[Taboo]: People who have a lot of urine should not eat it, mainly because Chixiaodou has the function of diuresis.
Medicine and Food Homogenous Chixiaodou
【Nutrition Value】:
1. Prevent constipation
Chixiaodou contains a lot of fiber for the treatment of constipation, which can play a role in moisturizing the intestines and laxative.
2. Eliminate edema
Adzuki beans can also be used to treat cardiac and renal edema, liver cirrhosis, ascites, beriberi edema, and external use of sores, and have certain effects. Adzuki bean soup can be used to treat edema caused by kidney, heart, liver, malnutrition, inflammation and many other reasons.
3. Strengthen the spleen and stomach
Chixiaodou is cooked in porridge and has the effects of strengthening the spleen and stomach and promoting dampness. Anyone with spleen deficiency, full ascites, poor urination, jaundice, and diarrhea can be eaten.
4. Enhance the body's immune function
Red beans contain considerable protein and microelements, which are beneficial to enhance the body's immune function and improve disease resistance.
5. Prolactin
Adzuki beans are a food rich in folic acid, and more adzuki beans for parturients and lactating mothers have the effect of promoting lactation.
6. Nutritional supplement
Contains protein, fat, carbohydrates, phosphorus, calcium, iron, vitamin B1, B2, niacin, saponin and other ingredients.
