The properties of red kidney beans are slightly flat and oblong, with a purplish-red surface, hard texture, slight gas, sweet and sour flavor.
Red kidney beans have the effect of draining pus and detoxifying the body, inducing diuresis and reducing swelling, this Chinese medicine has a sweet and sour taste, and its medicinal properties are calm and peaceful, with a slightly flattened oblong shape, a length of roughly 5-8 millimeters, a diameter of roughly 3-5 millimeters, and a purplish-red surface that is slightly glossy or non-glossy. There is a linear protruding umbilicus on one side of the red kidney bean, and its texture is hard.
Red beans are commonly used in clinical practice to treat edema and fullness, swollen feet, jaundice, urine and redness, rheumatism and heat paralysis (often manifested as burning, pain, redness and swelling of joints and muscles, etc.), carbuncles, sores and poisons, intestinal carbuncles (carbuncles occurring in the internal organs of the intestines, with fever, pain in the right abdomen, and can be touched to the lump as a manifestation of the) abdominal pain, and other diseases, the drug can be used as a single decoction, or can be crushed and mixed with a compress for external use. It should not be used by those who have deficiency of yin and injury to the body fluid.
Red beans for drug use, patients should not be used indiscriminately, the use of drugs must be guided by a professional Chinese medicine practitioner.