How much do you know about the benefits of barley and red bean porridge?

Barley and red bean porridge has a very good effect on removing dampness. For people with heavy dampness in the body, drinking more is very good. So besides knowing that barley and red bean porridge has this effect, do you know anything else?

Nutritional Benefits

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In traditional Chinese medicine, it is called "Coix seed" and "Shennong Bencao Jing" lists it as a top-grade product. It can cure dampness and arthritis, benefit the intestines and stomach, eliminate edema, strengthen the spleen and stomach, and lose weight and benefit qi if taken for a long time.

Red Bean

In traditional Chinese medicine, it is called "red bean", and it also has obvious diuretic, anti-edema, and spleen and stomach strengthening effects. Because it is red, red enters the heart, so it can also nourish the heart.

Modern people have great mental stress, weak heart, irregular diet, little exercise, and spleen deficiency and dampness. To remove dampness, nourish the heart, and strengthen the spleen and stomach, barley and red beans are the best choice. Boiling them into porridge is intended to make their effective ingredients fully absorbed by the human body, while not causing any burden to the spleen and stomach.

"De-swelling" effect

In traditional Chinese medicine, obesity and edema both mean that there is moisture in the body. Water cannot flow with the blood and qi, and is retained between the cells of the human body, causing the body to swell rapidly. This is true for edema and obesity, but the degree of severity varies. Drugs or foods with strong dehumidifying properties can remove the water retained in the human body and eliminate swelling. Therefore, red beans must be used to treat edema, and practice has proved that barley and red bean porridge has a good weight loss effect, which can reduce weight without hurting the body.

Dampness treatment

Dampness is the root cause of all kinds of chronic and stubborn diseases in modern times, and barley and red bean soup is the best medicine to treat dampness. After I prescribe a prescription for my patients, I always tell them some precautions on diet and daily life. The most common thing I tell them is to go home and make barley and red bean soup as tea. For patients who do not have this condition, I will let them make porridge with barley and red beans as the staple food for dinner.

Notes

Don't add rice! Why? Because rice grows in water, contains moisture, and moisture is sticky, so rice becomes thick once it is boiled. Red beans and coix seeds are both dehumidifying, and they do not contain moisture themselves, so no matter how they are boiled, the soup will not be thick, and it will be very clear. Traditional Chinese medicine uses its clear nature to remove moisture from the human body. Once rice is added, it is equivalent to adding moisture, so the whole porridge becomes thick. Although the taste may be better, it is not a good thing for health preservation. Just because of that handful of rice, all the red beans and coix seeds are wasted and have no effect.