[Medicinal Diet] Eating beans in summer is better than eating meat! Chinese medicine teaches you to eat a handful of "healthy beans" that are suitable for you!

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Beans have very high nutritional value. The traditional Chinese diet emphasizes "the five grains are good for nourishment, but without beans, it is not good", which means that the five grains are nutritious, but without beans, it will lose balance. Modern nutrition science has also proved that if you insist on eating bean products every day, in just two weeks, the human body can reduce fat content, increase immunity and reduce the probability of illness.

As the saying goes, "Beans are better than meat in summer." Summer is especially suitable for eating beans. In the hot summer, Chinese medicine teaches you to eat a handful of "healthy beans" that are suitable for your body.

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Mung beans are rich in vitamins A, B, and C, which can lower blood pressure and treat fatigue, swelling, and urinary problems. Mung bean powder can treat sores, swelling, and burns, mung bean skin can improve eyesight, and mung bean sprouts can help sober up.

Mung beans are sweet and cool in nature, and have the effects of clearing away heat, promoting diuresis and detoxifying. Lotus seeds are neutral in nature, sweet and astringent in taste, and can nourish the spleen and stop diarrhea, benefit the kidneys and consolidate essence, and nourish the heart and calm the mind.

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Studies have shown that red beans are rich in dietary fiber, potassium, magnesium, phosphorus, B vitamins and other nutrients. They can especially replenish the potassium lost through sweating in summer. Red beans are especially suitable for people with poor heart and kidney function.

Red beans have a sweet, sour and neutral taste and can eliminate dampness and nourish the spleen; peanuts are sweet and neutral in nature and can nourish the blood, nourish the heart, strengthen the brain and improve intelligence.

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Black beans, also known as black beans, are the black seeds of soybeans, a plant of the leguminous family. According to Chinese medicine, black beans are sweet, neutral in nature, and belong to the spleen and kidney meridians. They have the effects of nourishing essence and improving eyesight, nourishing blood and dispelling wind, promoting water and detoxification, and blackening hair. Chinese medicine believes that black belongs to water and can enter the kidney. People with kidney deficiency can eat black beans to dispel wind and heat, relieve the symptoms of five-heart irritability, irritability and thirst, soreness of waist and knees, frequent urination, premature graying of hair, dark eyes and tinnitus, as well as abnormal leucorrhea and lower abdominal cold pain in women. Insufficient liver blood and kidney essence deficiency can easily cause premature graying of hair. Black beans can nourish blood and benefit essence. When used together with black sesame, Eclipta prostrata, Polygonum multiflorum, Rehmannia glutinosa, etc., they can nourish the liver and blood, nourish the kidney and fill essence, and make the hair black and shiny. In addition, because black beans are rich in protein, they have a good detoxification effect and can relieve poisoning caused by food or drugs.

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Soybeans can relieve the middle and lower qi, benefit the large intestine, and eliminate edema and toxins. They have the effects of nourishing the spleen and qi, eliminating heat and detoxifying, and are an excellent food therapy product.

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Peanuts and edamame are indispensable in food stalls in the north in summer. Edamame is rich in plant protein, B vitamins, phytic acid, oligosaccharides, and trace elements such as potassium, magnesium, and iron, and is also high in dietary fiber.

It helps control blood sugar and blood lipids, relieves summer fatigue, replenishes physical strength, prevents anemia, etc.

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Sweating in the summer will accelerate the loss of B vitamins in the body, which will lead to irritability and bad mood. Peas can become the "happy beans" in summer.

People are prone to spleen and stomach dysfunction, loss of appetite, and diarrhea in summer. Chinese medicine believes that peas belong to the spleen and stomach meridians, and have therapeutic effects such as stopping diarrhea, eliminating carbuncle and swelling, and strengthening the spleen and stomach.

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Summer is the time when broad beans are on the market. In addition to being rich in nutrients such as protein, dietary fiber, calcium, phosphorus, potassium, B vitamins, carotene, it also contains phospholipids and choline, which have certain memory-enhancing and brain-enhancing effects.

Broad beans are mild in nature and sweet in taste. They have the effects of strengthening the spleen and promoting diuresis, detoxifying and reducing swelling. They enter the spleen to replenish qi and aid digestion, stimulate the appetite and help digestion. They are especially suitable for people with poor appetite, indigestion, and bloating and abdominal distension caused by spleen deficiency.

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Lentils can invigorate the spleen and remove dampness, nourish the stomach and relieve qi, detoxify and reduce edema, which is just the right remedy for the current high temperature and heavy humidity. Lentils are also a "big player" in dietary fiber. Modern people who usually eat too much refined rice and white flour may wish to eat some lentils if they have symptoms of constipation and internal heat.
White lentil is slightly warm in nature, sweet in taste, and belongs to the spleen and stomach meridians. "Compendium of Materia Medica" calls white lentil "the grain of the spleen" and believes that white lentil can "stop diarrhea, relieve heat, warm the spleen and stomach, eliminate dampness and heat, and stop thirst."

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