What do adzuki beans do? What do red adzuki beans do?

Red adzuki beans, commonly known as red beans, rice red beans, red beans, red rice beans, etc. Each 100 grams of red beans contains carbohydrate grams, protein grams, phosphorus 386 mg, calcium 76 mg, iron mg, rich in vitamin E, is a typical high-potassium food (K390), as well as thiamine, riboflavin, niacin, saponin, etc. Red beans contain high dietary fiber and low calorie content, which has the effects of lowering blood sugar, blood lipids and blood pressure.

Traditional Chinese medicine believes that red beans are sweet in taste, slightly cold, return to the heart, spleen, and small intestine meridians, and have the effects of clearing heat and detoxifying, and diluting water and dehumidifying. Tao Hongjing's "Famous Doctor's Record" of the Northern and Southern Dynasties said: Red beans "are mainly cold and hot, hot, thirsty, antidiarrheal, urinate, vomit, and full".

Therefore, eating some red bean porridge often can not only lower blood sugar, but also prevent and treat some common complications such as hypertension and hyperlipidemia.

Both are the same color, but different shapes. The red beans are relatively round, and the red adzuki beans are slender and slightly flattened. After cooking, the red beans will become soft, but even if the red beans are soaked and then cooked, they will not be boiled and will be relatively hard to eat.

Red beans, also known as red rice beans, are slightly larger, and they are beans that are often used to make bean paste, which has the effect of dispelling dampness.

Red adzuki beans are small, red and black, red as vermilion, black as lacquer, and poisonous.

There is an important one called Guatisan, which uses the toxicity of red adzuki beans to induce vomiting.

So everyone must know the difference, don't go to the pharmacy to buy a poisonous red adzuki bean and eat it back.

Red adzuki beans are mild, sweet, and sour, and are a nutritious little dried bean. In every 100 grams of adzuki beans, it contains 58 grams of protein, fat, carbohydrates, crude fiber, 67 mg of calcium, milligrams of iron, phosphorus, vitamins B1, B2, niacin, saponin and other nutrients.

Because red adzuki beans contain saponin, which has the effects of laxative, diuretic and swelling, eating red adzuki beans often can clear blood and eliminate fatigue of internal organs, which is especially beneficial for patients with heart disease and kidney disease. This bean also has the saying of "long-term food and thin people", which has a certain effect on senile obesity.

Red adzuki beans are suitable for porridge, stuffing, and snacks. Cooking porridge with red adzuki beans and japonica rice not only improves water and swelling, but also strengthens the spleen and stomach. The red adzuki bean winter melon syrup is a healthy sweet soup for children, which has the effect of driving away heat and strengthening the spleen.

Red adzuki beans are hard to boil and difficult to cook, so if you want to cook them with japonica rice, you should boil them before adding japonica rice. In addition, red adzuki beans are suitable for seasoning with an appropriate amount of sugar, but salt should not be added, otherwise it is not conducive to the discharge of water.

Red adzuki beans, in addition to red beans, red adzuki beans, rice beans and other aliases, are also known as red beans. In the local market, red adzuki beans and red beans are two dried beans with similar colors but different appearances. Red adzuki beans are elongated and have smaller particles than red beans; The red bean is cylindrical in shape and has a dark brownish-red surface.

I inquired with several TCM practitioners, and they said that although they look different, red adzuki beans and red beans are the same species, they both belong to the legume family, and their properties and nutrients are similar, but the efficacy of red adzuki beans is stronger, so red adzuki beans are used in traditional Chinese medicine, while red beans are only for general consumption.

What are red adzuki beans used for?

Adzuki beans are a kind of food, it should be said that it is grain. Red adzuki beans have a sweet, sour, and flat taste, and return to the spleen, heart, and small intestine meridians. Its efficacy and function are as follows:

1. Red adzuki beans first have the effect of dampness and swelling, which can alleviate leg swelling and hand swelling caused by insufficient transportation in the body, and have a good auxiliary effect on spleen and stomach edema, liver cirrhosis, ascites, etc.;

2. Red adzuki beans enter the heart meridian, which can help replenish the heart, clear the heart fire, and have the effect of clearing heat and detoxifying, dissolving sores and draining pus for sores and boils;

3. Red adzuki bean has the effect of lowering blood pressure and lipids, making capillaries dilate, reducing blood viscosity, and improving microcirculation, which can assist in lowering blood pressure, lipids and blood sugar;

4. Red adzuki beans have the effect of moistening the intestines, rich in a variety of plant fibers, fiber can absorb water and expand in the human body, so it can moisten the intestines, improve the intestines, and prevent constipation.

Red adzuki bean is a kind of astringent drug, which has the effect of astringent intestine and antidiarrheal, astringent hemostasis, and astringent sores and muscle-building. Mainly used for sores and ulcers for a long time, this product has the effect of dampness and muscle building for external use, and can be used in combination with keel, calamine, blood exhaustion and other drugs; **Deficiency and cold, long-term diarrhea, dysentery, slippage, prolapse, etc., often compatible with dried ginger, japonica rice and other drugs; **Those with leakage and blood in the stool are often compatible with drugs such as squid bones and Yu surplus grain; **Liver and kidney deficiency, can be used in combination with drugs such as gourd and deer horn cream.

Efficacy and function.

Reduces edema, lactation, laxative**.

Red adzuki beans are similar in appearance to red beans and slightly slender, often mixed with red beans, can be eaten whole, or used for cooking rice, porridge, and red bean soup, with edema, lactation, laxative ** and other effects.

1. Edema: Red adzuki bean is often used as a diuretic for edema patients, including cardiogenic edema, nephropathy edema, liver cirrhosis ascites, beriberi edema, pregnant women or postpartum edema.

2. Milk: red beans can be used to cook porridge or simmer soup for postpartum milk deficiency.

3. Laxative**: Red adzuki beans are rich in vitamin B1, vitamin B2, protein and a variety of minerals, which have the effects of blood tonic, diuretic, swelling, and heart activation.

Precautions. Suitable for.

Patients with renal edema, cardiac edema, dystrophic edema.

Contraindicated. People who urinate a lot, those who are deficient in yin and have no dampness and heat.

It can be diuretic, dehumidifying, relieving heat and strengthening the spleen.

1. The health effect of red adzuki beans is still very strong, the protein and fat content in red adzuki beans is relatively small, but there are a lot of carbohydrates in it, so eating red adzuki beans is actually good for us to improve abdominal distention, urination, edema and beriberi, etc., and it is very suitable for the elderly to eat red adzuki beans.

2. For our human body, red adzuki beans can delay and inhibit the growth and spread of cancer cells. This can help us fight cancer cells, and at the same time, eating red adzuki beans can also help detoxification, which can make our body healthier.

3. Red adzuki beans are also very suitable for people with three highs, because red adzuki beans have a very strong effect on lowering blood pressure, lowering blood lipids, and regulating blood sugar.

4. Insist on eating red adzuki beans for replenishing qi and blood, and the effect of raw milk is very strong, especially for pregnant women, eating red adzuki beans is very suitable, which can help promote lactation, and at the same time have the effect of nourishing the body and promoting recovery, and red adzuki beans are a kind of food rich in folic acid, so pregnant women and mothers should often eat red adzuki beans.

Function: dilute water, reduce swelling and yellowing, clear away heat, detoxify and eliminate carbuncles.

Indications: 1. Edema and athlete's foot: red adzuki beans are beneficial to water swelling and spleen.

2. Damp heat jaundice, hot shower, etc.: red adzuki beans are good for water, and also clear the small intestine fire, which can make damp heat out of urine.

3. Heat poisonous sores, carbuncles, erysipelas, cheeks, etc.: red adzuki beans can clear heat and detoxify, disperse stasis, drain pus and eliminate dysentery.

4. Poisonous stool and blood, intestinal carbuncles, etc.: take this product to disperse blood, detoxify and eliminate carbuncles.

Part of the drug: seeds.

Red adzuki bean, the name of traditional Chinese medicine. It is the seed of the legume plant. It has the effect of diluting water, reducing swelling and yellowing, clearing heat, detoxifying and eliminating carbuncles. It is mainly used for the treatment of edema, beriberi, jaundice, gonorrhea, blood in the stool, swelling and poisonous sores, ringworm.

Chinese name: 赤小豆.

Intestinal detoxification and laxative: red adzuki beans contain a lot of dietary fiber, which can promote gastrointestinal peristalsis, clean up the garbage and toxins in the intestines, and usually eat to clear the intestines and detoxify and prevent constipation, in addition, people eat more red adzuki beans can also absorb some saponins and phospholipids, which can prevent hyperlipidemia and hyperglycemia and prevent the formation of stones.

Water swelling: water swelling is also an important role of red adzuki beans, for people due to heart disease and kidney disease caused by body edema, as well as liver cirrhosis caused by ascites and beriberi edema and other symptoms have a good effect, usually when you need to boil water can be boiled and drunk, so that the edema can quickly subside. Red adzuki beans can also prevent jaundice, can make jaundice disappear as soon as possible, and it can usually be used as an adjunct to human jaundice hepatitis**.