If there is a medicine in the world, and can be eaten as a meal, but also as a tea, not only delicious and nourishing, but also to make the whole family from all diseases, you are willing to try it? They are barley and red beans. These two things, not according to what proportion, each time the same grab a handful, washed and put in a pot with water to boil, boiled is a good product to dispel dampness and strengthen the spleen – barley and red beans porridge. There are a lot of skills and instructions for boiling barley and red bean porridge. Barley is very hard, red beans are also very hard, if put in the pot has been simmering, probably more than an hour to simmer is not rotten, it is a waste of fire or electricity, and may also boil the water dry, resulting in paste bottom. I suggest two methods: the first method is to add enough water to the pot, boil and then turn off the fire, let the barley and red beans in the pot smothered for half an hour, then fire, boil and then smothered for half an hour, the red bean porridge is cooked. The second method is more simple, is now not commonly used at home, wash the thermos bottle, put the barley and red beans inside, and then pour in the boiling water, plug the bottle tightly smothered, every night so get up in the morning is the porridge, just when the breakfast drink. This is very labor-saving, and also the most energy-saving, no need to boil again. The advantage of barley and red bean porridge is that how to boil it will not be sticky and thick, the bottom is always boiled red beans and barley, the top is light red soup, and barley and red beans are most of the active ingredients in the soup. When boiling porridge, put more water, these soups are enough for us to drink half a day, just as tea. If it is summer, you have to fight to finish it in the morning, because in the afternoon to drink it will become tasteless. As for the efficacy, it’s really not trivial. The Chinese medicine is called “coix seed”, “Shen Nong Ben Cao Jing” listed it as the top product, it can cure damp paralysis, benefit the intestines and stomach, reduce edema, strengthen the spleen and benefit the stomach, long time to take light body and benefit the qi. Red beans, called “red beans” in Chinese medicine, also have obvious effects of water, swelling, and spleen and stomach, because it is red, red into the heart, so it can also tonic the heart. Modern people have a lot of mental stress, weak heart energy, poor diet, little exercise, and spleen deficiency and dampness. To get rid of dampness and to nourish the heart, and also to strengthen the spleen and stomach, barley and red beans are the best. The purpose of boiling them into porridge is to make their active ingredients fully absorbed by the body, while not causing any burden to the spleen and stomach. The “swelling” effect of barley and red beans is also very interesting. We must not think that swelling is edema. Try to look at today’s people, 10 of them at least 5 to 6 body fat, which is also swollen, called bloated body. In Chinese medicine, obesity or edema, it means that there is dampness in the body. Water can not flow with the blood, stagnant in the human body between the cells, so that the body quickly swell up. Edema is like this, obesity is also like this, only the degree of deep and shallow. The medicine or food with strong dispelling dampness can dispel the water fluid that stays in the human body, so it can also reduce the swelling. Therefore, the treatment of edema must use red beans, and practice has proved that barley red bean porridge has a good weight loss effect, both to lose weight, and not hurt the body, especially for middle-aged and elderly obese people, the effect is particularly good. Often people ask: “Why barley red bean porridge can not be cooked into a sticky form?” Someone else said to me, “I added a small amount of rice when boiling barley and red bean porridge, the result is that the porridge boiled thick, the taste is called a beautiful ah!” I said, “Never add rice to it!” Why? Because rice grows in water, contains moisture, wet sticky, so the rice boiled thick. Red beans and barley are dampness, itself does not contain dampness, so how they boil is not thick, the soup is very clear. Chinese medicine is precisely the use of its clear nature to get rid of the body’s dampness, once you add in rice, it is the same as adding in dampness, so the whole porridge is thickened. Although the taste may be better, but for health is not good, because of the handful of rice, all the red beans, barley are wasted, the efficacy of all. The usual thoughts hurt, overworked and little exercise people, often no blood on the face, the spirit is not enough, and even palpitations, sleepy, feeling heavy head like a wrap, the heart is empty. This is a manifestation of the dampness in the body plus the lack of heart energy, you can add some cinnamon to the barley and red bean porridge and cook it together. The sweet warmth of cinnamon can appease the stomach and spleen, calm the mind and replenish the blood, invigorate the heart yang and warm the heart qi, making people full of energy and vitality. It is especially suitable for strong brain workers, but also very suitable for middle-aged and elderly people. Young people are prone to irritability, insomnia, or red rashes and pimples on the face, which are caused by excessive heart fire and internal disturbance of damp heat, so you can add lily or lotus seeds to barley and red bean porridge to cook with, or both. The lily can moisten the lungs, nourish the face, and can clear the heart fire and calm the mind. The most important thing is that the lotus seeds can nourish the heart, clear the heart fire, and at the same time can strengthen the spleen and kidneys, but the lotus seeds have a slightly stagnant effect, the body is thin and weak people can use, but that body stagnation more fat people are afraid that it is not appropriate to use. When using lotus seeds, remove the heart inside. Of course, if you don’t like the taste of this porridge, you can also add some rock sugar. Among the various types of sugar, only rock sugar is cool and can clear the heart fire. If you catch a cold, or have cold in your body, cold pain in the stomach, poor appetite, you can add a few slices of ginger to the barley and red bean porridge. Ginger is warm in nature and can warm the middle and drive away the cold, strengthen the spleen and stomach. Note that ginger should not be put more, more will make the porridge become spicy. If you want to add some seasoning to this porridge, you can only put brown sugar, which is also warm in nature. It is worth mentioning that when women take care of themselves after giving birth, they should drink this porridge without barley, and can add some dates to it, which can warm the middle, strengthen the spleen and nourish the blood, which is very suitable. People with kidney deficiency can add some black beans to the barley and red bean porridge. Because black into the kidney, and the shape of the bean is also very similar to the kidney, is a good product for the kidney. Now people often say that the foot disease, is typical of damp heat injection. You can add soybeans to barley and red bean porridge, eat its porridge, and at the same time wash your feet with the boiled soup. Internal and external treatment, the effect is very good. If coughing, you can also peel and core the raw pear cut into small pieces of 1 to 2 cm square, add barley red bean porridge cooked together, can moisten the lungs, resolve phlegm, thirst. Yam and pumpkin can also be put in barley and red bean porridge cooked together. The yam is known as the “little ginseng”, sometimes, it is more beneficial than ginseng, it is the spleen and stomach of the holy product, and can strengthen the kidneys and fix the essence, moisten the lungs and benefit the qi. Pumpkin can nourish the middle and benefit the qi, but also anti-inflammatory, analgesic, insecticide, detoxification, for the protection of the pancreas, to prevent diabetes, is something very good. In addition to red beans and barley porridge, you can also learn more about the nature and taste of various foods, to name a few, to add or subtract themselves, to make up more suitable for their own physique diet prescription to. In this way, food can really become a good health care products. The color is dull, lack of spirit, even palpitations, sleepiness, emptiness in the heart: barley red beans with cinnamon irritability and insomnia, or face rash, acne: barley red beans with lily, lotus seeds cold pain in the stomach, poor appetite, fear of cold: barley red beans with ginger kidney deficiency: barley red beans with black beans foot: barley red beans with soy beans cough: rice red beans with pear loss of appetite, thin body: barley red beans with yam diarrhea, abdominal pain, diabetes: barley red beans with black beans diabetes: barley red beans plus pumpkin deficiency, premature ejaculation, spermatorrhea, excessive nocturnal urination: barley red beans plus gravy pregnant women: reduce barley, add a small amount of astragalus, ginseng maternity: reduce barley, add dates, millet, brown sugar