Today, we also introduce you to a seasonal dietary supplement, five-bean soup. It’s called five-bean soup, but it’s actually four beans plus one herb. For the sake of memory, we call it five-bean soup. The hot summer days, heat and humidity annoy people, body and mind easily tired, not to mention the mood is often very bad, it is necessary to carry out appropriate health care. Five bean soup is such a good drink, as the saying goes, “With his summer heat, I have a good drink to dispel the summer heat – five bean soup”. The five-bean soup is composed of red beans, which clear heat and detoxify the toxins, and water, mung beans, which reduce summer heat and dampness and quench thirst, lentils, which harmonize dampness and stop diarrhea, black beans, which nourish yin and tonify the kidneys, and licorice, which is also called beans. Licorice can be said to be able to adjust a hundred flavors of medicine, black beans by the ancient book said “into the kidney work more, so can cure water”, so they can help red lentils, lentils, mung beans, the role of summer heat and water, but also to slow down its cold nature, so this soup to eliminate summer heat and not cold, water without hurting the kidneys, so men and women are suitable for young and old. Ingredients: 10 grams of adzuki beans, 10 grams of mung beans, 10 grams of black beans, 10 grams of white lentils, 3 grams of raw licorice. (Adjust appropriately according to actual needs) Process: the first day evening first clean and soak the four beans, after a night of soaking, the beans better cooked. Simmering: water according to demand appropriate amount, put four beans with licorice ignition heating soup pot, then cook with civil fire for about 100~120 minutes. Serving: When the five bean soup is cooked, it can be taken at room temperature or placed in the refrigerator and used as a cold drink. You can add sugar to taste. This can relieve the summer heat and fitness five bean soup is ready. 1, adzuki beans adzuki beans contain more saponin, can stimulate the intestinal tract, so it has a good diuretic effect, can detoxify, detoxification, heart disease and kidney disease, edema beneficial; there are more dietary fiber, with good laxative, lower blood pressure, lower blood lipids, regulate blood sugar, detoxification, anti-cancer, stone prevention, bodybuilding and weight loss; adzuki beans are rich in folic acid food, maternal, lactating mothers eat more adzuki beans have The effect of lactation. 2, mung beans mung beans are rich in nutrients, appetite, blood fat, cholesterol, anti-allergy, detoxification, liver protection; mung beans taste sweet, cool, into the heart, stomach meridian; with heat detoxification, summer heat, thirst, stomach, water and swelling effect; main treatment of summer heat, thirst, damp heat diarrhea, edema and abdominal distension, sores and swelling, dampness boils, mumps, pox rash and gold, stone, arsenic and herb poisoning. Mung beans are cold, the body is cold people should not eat more or eat for a long time, the spleen and stomach deficiency cold diarrhea people caution food. 3, black beans black beans nutritionally comprehensive, rich in protein, vitamins, minerals, with swelling down, moisten the lungs and dry heat, blood and water, dispel wind and detoxification, blood and tranquilize the spirit, bright eyes and spleen, the role of the liver and kidney yin; for edema and swelling, wind and foot, jaundice swelling, wind paralysis and spasm, postpartum wind pain, can solve the drug poison, wind-heat and stop night sweats, black hair and prolong life function. 4, white lentils white lentils for both food and medicine, rich in nutrients, often eat on the human muscle, bone and nerve function, such as growth and development and metabolism, has a good role in promoting. White lentils in the amount of cellulose, can coordinate and stimulate intestinal peristalsis, shorten the retention time of viral metabolites in the intestinal cavity, improve gastrointestinal function, thereby reducing the risk of gastrointestinal tumors. Lentils also have anti-viral, hypoglycemic, enhance cellular immune function, anti-cancer and anti-cancer effects. Licorice has the effect of tonifying the spleen and benefiting the qi, clearing heat and detoxifying the body, dispelling phlegm and relieving cough, relieving acute pain and harmonizing all medicines. It is often used for weak spleen and stomach, tiredness and weakness, palpitation and shortness of breath, cough and phlegm, pain in the epigastrium and extremities, carbuncle and sores, and to relieve drug toxicity and potency.