What are broad beans and their effects and functions

What are the effects and functions of broad beans? Let me tell you below, I hope it will be helpful to you.

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Broad beans contain important components for regulating the brain and nerve tissue, such as calcium, zinc, manganese, and phospholipids. They are also rich in choline, which has a brain-boosting effect on enhancing memory. The calcium in broad beans is beneficial to the absorption and calcification of calcium by bones, and can promote the growth and development of human bones. Broad beans are rich in protein and do not contain cholesterol, which can improve the nutritional value of food and prevent cardiovascular diseases. If you are taking an exam or are a mental worker, eating broad beans appropriately may have a certain effect. The vitamin C in broad beans can delay arteriosclerosis, and the dietary fiber in broad bean skins can lower cholesterol and promote intestinal peristalsis. Modern people also believe that broad beans are one of the anti-cancer foods and are effective in preventing colon cancer.

Broad beans are suitable for people:

Patients with hemolytic disease should fast.

1. Elderly people, students taking exams, people who do mental work, people with high cholesterol and constipation can eat more.

2. People with coldness in the middle burner should not eat it. People who have had an allergy to broad beans should not eat it again.

The efficacy and function of broad beans

Traditional medicine believes that broad beans are sweet, neutral in nature, and enter the spleen and stomach meridians;

It can replenish qi, strengthen the spleen and stomach, clear away heat and dampness, stop bleeding and lower blood pressure, and stop leukorrhea;

It is mainly used to treat symptoms such as insufficient vital energy, fatigue, poor appetite, hypertension, hemoptysis, epistaxis, and leucorrhea in women.

Cooking porridge with young broad beans can soothe the stomach, moisten the intestines and promote bowel movements, and is effective for habitual constipation.

Broad bean stems stop bleeding and diarrhea; leaves are astringent and stop bleeding. Flowers cool blood and stop bleeding; seed skin is diuretic and eliminates dampness; pod shell is astringent and stops bleeding.

1. For edema: 60g broad beans and 15g wax gourd peel, decocted in water.

2. Applied to hemoptysis caused by pulmonary tuberculosis: Wash the broad beans, mash them to extract the juice, take 20 grams each time, twice a day.

3. For drunkenness: add appropriate amount of broad bean sprouts, oil and salt to boil soup, and drink orally. For watery diarrhea: 30 grams of broad bean stems, decoct in water and drink orally.

Beware of "favism"

"Favism" is an inherited hemolytic disease caused by a lack of "glucose-6-phosphate dehydrogenase" in the body's red blood cells. After Ahua ate broad beans, due to the lack of this enzyme in his body, the sphingine substance in the broad beans caused the enzyme in his body to be broken down and lost, resulting in a large number of red blood cells rupturing and hemolysis, leading to hemolytic anemia. A large amount of hemoglobin produced by hemolysis was excreted in the urine, making the urine soy sauce color, and its metabolite bilirubin made his skin turn yellow all over his body.

Director Lin said that the onset and severity of favism have nothing to do with the amount of broad beans eaten. Sometimes eating 1-2 beans is not enough. Sometimes inhaling or touching broad bean pollen can induce the disease. During the broad bean ripening season from March to May each year, it is best to stay away from broad bean pollen to avoid inducing the disease, try not to wear clothes stored in mothballs, and absolutely avoid using sulfa and antipyretic analgesics.

Director Lin warned that many parents tend to ignore favism, and when children develop the disease, it is often treated as hepatitis or other diseases. If a child develops symptoms such as pale complexion, dark urine, rapid heartbeat, fatigue, etc. after eating broad beans, he should be taken to the hospital for examination to determine whether it is favism and then receive appropriate treatment.