The efficacy of coix seed and red bean porridge

Below I summarize some of the benefits of coix seed and red bean porridge. I hope you like what I wrote.

Barley and red bean porridge

The effect of coix seed and red bean porridge

Dampness in the body has a great impact on our health. Once dampness is heavy, many diseases will come up. Today, I will introduce a classic diet therapy for removing dampness that is highly praised by health experts, barley and red bean soup. I will tell you how to make barley and red bean porridge and its effects.

Coix seed is sweet, mild and slightly cold in nature. It has the effects of diuresis, detumescence, spleen and dampness, muscle relaxation, numbness removal, heat clearing and pus discharge. It is a commonly used diuretic and dampness-infiltrating medicine. Coix seed is also a beauty food. Regular consumption can keep the skin shiny and delicate, eliminate acne, freckles, age spots, pregnancy spots, butterfly spots, and has a good effect on desquamation, acne, chapped skin, and rough skin.

Red beans are sweet and neutral in nature. They can invigorate the spleen and eliminate dampness, disperse blood, and detoxify. They contain protein, fat, sugar, phosphorus, calcium, iron, vitamin B1.B2, niacin, saponin and other ingredients. They are used for edema, beriberi, postpartum milk deficiency, diarrhea, jaundice or urinary problems, hemorrhoids, and intestinal carbuncle.

How to make coix seed and red bean porridge

There are many skills and details to make barley and red bean soup. Barley and red bean are very hard. If you keep boiling them in the pot, they will not be soft even after more than an hour, which is a waste of fire or electricity. In addition, the water may dry up and the bottom will become mushy.

So the cooking method is very particular: first soak the coix seed and red bean for a few hours, then put them in a pot and add enough water, turn off the fire after boiling, let the coix seed and red bean simmer in the pot for half an hour, then turn on the fire again, boil and simmer for another half an hour, and the red bean porridge is ready. If you have a pressure cooker, just soak it and cook it for a while.

The advantage of barley and red bean soup is that it will not become sticky or thick no matter how long it is boiled. There is always the boiled red bean and barley at the bottom, and the light red soup on top. Most of the effective ingredients of barley and red bean are in the soup. It is this light and non-sticky appearance that can achieve the effect of clearing away heat and dampness.

Since a lot of water is added when making porridge, the soup may be enough for us to drink for half a day, just right for tea. If it is summer, you have to try to finish it in the morning, because it is easy to go bad in the afternoon due to the hot weather. The coix seeds and red beans that sink to the bottom can still be eaten. If you think the taste is not good, you can mix some sugar. Isn't this a tea and a meal?

The effect of coix seed and red bean porridge

The "de-swelling" effect of coix seed and red bean is also very interesting. We must not think that swelling is edema. At least five or six out of ten people around us are fat, which is also swelling, called body bloating. In traditional Chinese medicine, obesity or edema means that there is dampness in the body, and the water cannot flow with the blood and qi, and is retained between the body cells, causing the body to swell rapidly. This is true for edema and obesity, but the degree is different. Drugs or foods with strong dehumidification 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 coix seed and red bean soup has a good weight loss effect, which can not only lose weight, but also does not hurt the body. Especially for middle-aged and elderly obesity, the effect is particularly good.

Can everyone drink barley and red bean soup? Are there any contraindications? In fact, this soup is a good health product and has no side effects, but for different people, some additions and subtractions can be made appropriately.

Some people have a cold constitution, so they can add some warming foods, such as longan and jujube. Some people have insomnia and feel obviously damp in their bodies, so they can add some lotus seeds and lilies. If female friends have dysmenorrhea, they can remove the coix seeds and boil some red bean soup, add some ginger slices, jujubes, and brown sugar, and drink it to warm the lower abdomen and relieve pain. For joint pain, add some raw white peony root and raw licorice, which can transform acid and sweet into yin, nourish blood and eliminate numbness.

People who worry too much, work too hard and do little exercise often have pale faces, lack of energy, and even palpitations, sleepiness, a heavy head and an empty heart. This is a manifestation of dampness in the body and insufficient heart qi. You can add some longan to the coix seed and red bean soup and cook it together. Longan is sweet and warm, can stimulate the appetite and spleen, calm the nerves and replenish blood, can invigorate the heart yang, warm and nourish the heart qi, make people full of energy and full of vitality. Moreover, the taste of simple coix seed and red bean soup is very ordinary. After adding longan, it becomes sweet, with a light sweetness. It not only dispels the moisture in our body, but also brings vitality and warmth to our hearts. Let's call it coix seed, red bean and longan porridge. It is especially suitable for strong laborers and also for middle-aged and elderly people.

Young people are prone to irritability and insomnia, or rashes and pimples on their faces. These are all caused by excessive fire in the upper part of the heart and lungs, and internal disturbance of dampness and heat. Washing your face with coix seed and red bean soup is very effective, or adding lily and lotus seeds to the coix seed and red bean soup and cooking them together for drinking. Lily can moisten the lungs and nourish the skin, and can also clear the heart fire and calm the mind. Lotus seeds are the best for nourishing the heart and clearing the heart fire, while also strengthening the spleen and nourishing the kidneys. Of course, if you feel that the soup has no taste, you can also add some rock sugar.

If you have caught a cold, or have cold in your body, cold pain in your stomach, or poor appetite, you can add a few slices of ginger to the barley and red bean soup. Ginger is warm in nature and can warm the middle and dispel cold, strengthen the spleen and stomach. Note that you should not add too much ginger, as it will make the porridge spicy. If you want to add some seasoning to the soup, it is best to add brown sugar, which is warm in nature. It should be noted that when women are taking care of themselves after childbirth, they should remove the barley from the red bean and barley soup, and add some jujubes to it. Jujubes are very suitable for warming the middle, strengthening the spleen, and nourishing the blood.

People with kidney deficiency can add some black beans to the barley and red bean soup. Because black color enters the kidney, and the shape of the beans is very similar to the kidney, it is a good product for nourishing the kidney.

Nowadays, beriberi is a typical case of damp heat. You can add some crushed soybeans to the barley and red bean soup and soak your feet in the soup. This is a little secret recipe for treating beriberi.

If you have a cough, you can peel and core a raw pear, cut it into small pieces of 1 to 2 cm square, add it to the coix seed and red bean soup and cook together. It can moisten the lungs, eliminate phlegm and relieve cough.

Learn how to add or subtract ingredients from the barley and red bean soup. If used properly, it can have a good therapeutic effect on most common diseases in life.

Note: It is not advisable to add rice to the barley and red bean porridge

Because rice grows in water, it contains moisture, and moisture is sticky, so rice becomes thick as soon as it is boiled. Adzuki beans and coix seeds are both dehumidifiers, 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. Chinese medicine uses this 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 is better, it is not good for health preservation. Just because of that handful of rice, all the red beans and coix seeds are wasted and have no effect.