How to cook red beans and coix seed to remove dampness

Because of the weather or the human body itself, more and more people are suffering from wind-cold, dampness and heat. So everyone is trying to find a solution. If health-preserving methods can eliminate dampness and heat without injections or medication, it would be more ideal. Currently, red beans and coix seeds are a popular food for disease prevention. The combination of these two foods can fight cancer and maintain health. But how do you cook red beans and coix seed to remove dampness?

How to make red bean and barley soup to remove moisture

1. Wash the red beans and coix seeds and soak them in clean water for 4 hours in advance, otherwise they will not be easy to cook.

2 After soaking, put it directly into a milk pot, add clean water and boil. It should be noted here that the water used to soak the beans must not be poured out, because some nutrients have been dissolved into the water during the soaking process, and it will be wasted if it is poured out.

3 Bring to a boil over high heat, add a little cold water and continue to boil, then add cold water and boil again, repeat twice. The purpose of this is to shorten the cooking time so that the beans are easier to mature and bloom.

4 After the water boils again, turn down the heat and cook for about 20 minutes before turning off the heat.

5 Do not open the lid of the pot, simmer for 10 minutes and it is ready to eat.

Precautions

Beans and barley are difficult to cook, so they need to be soaked in advance.

The four most common mistakes when cooking red beans and coix seed to remove dampness

First of all, Red Bean is wrong!

The "red beans" mentioned in traditional Chinese medicine refer to adzuki beans. Red beans nourish the heart, and red beans can remove dampness. Red beans are used as medicine, and red beans are used as food. Most of the beans sold on the market are red beans. We can distinguish them by their appearance when purchasing. Red beans are rounder, while adzuki beans are long and thin. Don't buy the wrong ones, otherwise it will be useless no matter how much you eat.

Secondly, Barley is wrong!

Job's tears are cold in nature, and if cooked directly, they will damage the spleen, especially for those who drink red bean and job's tears water every day. First, don’t drink it every day as your spleen and stomach cannot bear it. Second, dry-fry the coix seeds before cooking them into porridge or boiling water, which can reduce the coldness of the coix seeds to a certain extent. Because the spleen is responsible for transporting and transforming water in the body, if the spleen is injured, moisture is more likely to be retained in the body, resulting in a situation where the more you try to remove moisture, the more moisture becomes heavier.

It is wrong to only remove dampness without strengthening the spleen

"Spleen deficiency and excessive dampness" Dampness can be divided into internal dampness and external dampness. However, when the spleen is deficient, it can not only fail to resist the invasion of external dampness, but will also continue to breed internal dampness. Therefore, to remove dampness, it is necessary to strengthen the spleen. On the other hand, if the dampness is not removed, it will aggravate the spleen deficiency. The two influence each other and are cause and effect to each other, so the key to removing dampness lies in strengthening the spleen.

Finally, it is wrong to remove dampness without distinguishing between cold, dampness and heat!

Once dampness, one of the six evils, is formed, it generally does not exist alone. It is very easy to collude with cold and heat to form cold-dampness, or damp-heat. Due to its complex properties, there is a saying that "a thousand colds are easy to eliminate, but one dampness is difficult to eliminate." How to judge the nature of dampness? It’s very simple. Observe the tongue coating. If the tongue coating is yellow, it means there is heat in the body, and if it is white, it means there is cold in the body.

If you don't go to the hospital and use some dietary recipes to remove dampness at home, you must understand the role of the food, otherwise it will have no effect and may even aggravate the symptoms.

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