Daily Diet - Red Adzuki Bean Carp Soup (miracle effect on edema)

Take 50 grams of red adzuki beans, 1 carp, and wash the red adzuki beans, put them together in the pot, add an appropriate amount of water, add ginger, stew until the red adzuki beans are cooked, and season them. It can also be eaten with rice and boiled into porridge. Once a day. Mild edema can subside in about 3 days, and in severe cases, it can also be seen after 2 to 3 weeks.

Although carp is an ordinary food, it has always been considered to have the effect of reducing edema, and there are many users of famous doctors in China from ancient times to the present. For example, ge hong's "Elbow Rear Emergency Fang" of the Jin Dynasty used carp to eliminate water, the Tang Dynasty's "Ancient and Modern Inspection Fang", "Preparing for Urgent Qianjin Fang", "Qianjin Yifang" also advocated this formula, and the Song Dynasty", "Taiping Shenghuifang", "General Record of Saint Ji", "Drinking and Eating Zhengyi", Ming "Ancient Ling Medical System", and Qing "Jin KuiYi Fang" all contained anti-edema formulas with carp as the main medicine. It can be seen that carp has a long history of edema.

Red beans, also known as red beans, the Southern Song Dynasty poet Fan Cheng wrote such a poem: "On the twenty-fifth day of the month of the family, the rice is boiled like beads and beans, about the number of bamboo bells, and the plague ghosts smell incense and go nowhere." "It is about the folk customs of the ancients who boiled red water bean porridge in the moon to resist diseases and dispel evil spirits. Red adzuki bean is resistant to disease and evil, the most famous is to be able to reduce water swelling and dehumidify poison, "Materia Medica" contains: "Red adzuki bean is small and red in color ... Practice jin liquid, improve urination, reduce swelling and remove swelling. "Therefore, it is very suitable for patients with edema.

Modern medicine believes that when the lack of protein in the blood leads to hypoproteinemia, it will cause a decrease in osmotic pressure in the blood, and the moisture in the blood will run into the loose tissue gap under the skin, causing edema of the lower limbs. In the past difficult period, people did not have enough to eat, less protein in the blood, and many people got this kind of edema; now although the living conditions are good, many long-term sick elderly people have low appetite for a long time, poor spleen and stomach function, and malabsorption, which will still lead to hypoproteinemia. There are also patients with nephritis, a large amount of protein will leak out of the kidneys, with the urine excreted to cause hypoproteinemia; in addition, liver disease, cirrhosis patients, generally accompanied by hypoproteinemia. Therefore, it is not uncommon to have edema of the lower extremities like Cui Dabo in the clinic.

Red adzuki bean and carp cooperate to treat edema, which was first recorded in the Tang Dynasty's "Dietary Therapy Materia Medica": "Red adzuki bean and carp are boiled and eaten, and even treat athlete's foot and large abdominal edema." (Note that the athlete's foot here refers to foot edema, not the modern Hong Kong foot) From a modern point of view, there is also a scientific basis for the treatment of edema with red bean carp soup. Carp is rich in protein, and so are red adzuki beans, which contain 21.7 grams of protein per 100 grams of red adzuki beans. Therefore, this recipe can provide patients with high protein, correct the patient's hypoproteinemia, and achieve the purpose of controlling and eliminating edema. In addition, modern pharmacological studies have found that red adzuki beans also contain diuretic active ingredients, which can increase urine output to speed up water excretion and eliminate edema.

It is worth mentioning that the red adzuki bean is easy to confuse with the "acacia seed", both are called "red beans", the appearance is actually obviously different, the skin of the red adzuki bean is all red, the acacia seed is red on one side, black on the other side, half red and half black. Emphasize that the difference between the two is because the red adzuki bean is non-toxic, edible, but also can cure the disease; acacia is poisonous, mistakenly taken will lead to vomiting, diarrhea, abdominal pain and other poisoning symptoms, so whenever the ancient medical books talk about red adzuki beans, always do not forget to mention a sentence "the doctor is half black and half red, the special patient" to remind everyone not to confuse the use.