The three beans in Three Beans Drink generally refer to black beans, mung beans and red beans.
Three Beans Drink is from “Three Hundred Kinds of Integrated Liang Fang”, named after the three kinds of beans used in its composition, including black beans, which are used for benefiting the essence and brightening the eyes (tonifying the essence and promoting the recovery of vision), nourishing the blood and dispelling the wind, inducing diuresis, and detoxifying the toxin, while mung beans are used for clearing heat and removing toxins (clearing away heat and toxicity in the body) and relieving the summer heat, and red beans for inducing diuresis and eliminating oedema (facilitating the passage of urine and eliminating oedema), and removing the toxin and draining out the pus.
Fresh rehmannia root is also added to the original formula, which is mainly used to prevent pox rashes, throat and plague. Less sugar can be added when taken by children. The preventive use of Three Bean Drink is more prominent, but the medicine has hot and cold, warm and cold, the choice should be taken under the guidance of a professional doctor to the right evidence, not arbitrarily served.