Benefits of Barley and Red Bean Porridge

Do you know the effects of barley and red bean porridge? If you don't know, please read the following introduction and you will know.

Benefits of Barley and Red Bean Porridge

The main effect of barley and red bean porridge is to remove dampness, which can remove moisture from the body. It is very suitable for summer and people with heavy moisture in the body. It can be eaten as a meal and is a good product for removing dampness and strengthening the spleen.

Job's tears, called "Coix seed" in traditional Chinese medicine, is listed as a top-grade product in Shennong's Herbal Classic. It can cure dampness, benefit the stomach, eliminate edema, strengthen the spleen and stomach, and lose weight and benefit qi if taken for a long time. Red beans, called "red adzuki beans" in traditional Chinese medicine, also have obvious effects of diuresis, swelling, and strengthening the spleen and stomach. Because it is red, red enters the heart, so it can also nourish the heart.

Modern people have great mental stress, weak heart qi, unregulated diet, little exercise, and spleen deficiency and dampness. To remove dampness, nourish the heart, and strengthen the spleen and stomach, coix seed and red bean 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.

The "reducing swelling" effect of coix seed and red bean is also very interesting. We must not think that swelling is edema. Look at the people today, at least five or six out of ten are overweight, which is also swelling, called body bloating.

Traditional Chinese Medicine's View on the Efficacy of Barley and Red Bean Porridge

In traditional Chinese medicine, obesity and edema both mean that there is dampness in the body. Water cannot flow with the blood and is retained between human cells, causing the body to swell rapidly. This is true for edema and obesity, except that the degree varies. Drugs or foods with strong dehumidifying properties can remove the water retained in the human body and reduce 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. It can lose weight without hurting the body, especially for middle-aged and elderly obese people, the effect is particularly good.

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

The advantage of barley and red bean porridge is that it will not become sticky or thick no matter how long it is cooked. The bottom is always the mushy red beans and barley, and the top is the light red soup. Most of the effective ingredients of barley and red beans are in the soup. When cooking porridge, add more water. The soup is enough for us to drink for half a day, and it can be used as tea...

How to make Barley and Red Bean Porridge: Mix barley and red bean in a ratio of 2:1 (approximately). Wash barley and red bean and soak overnight. Put all the ingredients in a pot, add water and boil over high heat, then simmer until barley is cooked. You can add some rock sugar or brown sugar when drinking.

In addition to red bean and barley porridge, you can also learn more about the nature and taste of various foods, draw inferences from one example, add or subtract them yourself, and form more dietary prescriptions that suit your physique. In this way, food can truly become a good product for health preservation. For example -

Dull complexion, lack of energy, even palpitations, drowsiness, and emptiness in the heart: Barley, red beans, and longan

Irritability, insomnia, or rashes and acne on the face: Barley, red beans, lily, lotus seeds

Cold pain in the stomach, poor appetite, fear of cold: Barley, red beans and ginger

Kidney deficiency

Barley, red beans and black beans

beriberi

Barley, red beans and soybeans

cough

Italian Red Bean and Pear

Loss of appetite and thin body: Barley, red beans and yam

Diarrhea, abdominal pain, diabetes: Barley, red beans and pumpkin

Physical weakness, premature ejaculation, spermatorrhea, and excessive nocturnal urination: coix seed, red bean, and Euryale ferox.

Pregnant women should reduce the amount of coix seed and add a small amount of astragalus and codonopsis

Pregnant women: Reduce the amount of coix seed and increase the amount of jujube, millet, and brown sugar

Important Tips

Some people say that adding a handful of rice to the barley and red bean porridge will make it taste better. I advise you not to do this, because rice contains moisture, and both red beans and barley can remove moisture. Once you add rice, it is equivalent to adding moisture. Although the taste may be better, it is not good for health. Because of that handful of rice, all the red beans and barley are wasted and have no effect.