Hebei adzuki bean

Adzuki bean is also known as adzuki bean, adzuki bean and red bean. Adzuki bean is rich in starch, so it is also called "rice bean". Adzuki bean contains various nutrients, and each 100g of adzuki bean contains 21.7g of protein, 0.8g of fat, 60.7g of carbohydrate, 76mg of calcium, 386mg of phosphorus, 4.5mg of iron, 0.43mg of thiamine, 0.16mg of riboflavin and 2.1mg of nicotinic acid. The lysine content of adzuki bean protein is high, so it should be mixed with cereal to make bean rice or bean porridge, which is usually made into bean paste or used as raw material for cakes. Li Shizhen called adzuki bean "the valley of the heart", whose functions are "promoting body fluid, promoting urination, relieving bloating, eliminating swelling and vomiting", and treating "diarrhea, relieving alcoholism, eliminating cold and heat, relieving pain and swelling, expelling pus and dispersing blood, and promoting milk ...". Adzuki bean is not only a delicious food, but also a panacea for doctors. Shennong's Classic of Materia Medica says that it "mainly treats edema and expels carbuncle, swelling and pus and blood". Medicinal Materia Medica says that it can "cure heat toxin and disperse evil blood". "Compendium of Materia Medica" records that adzuki bean is "sweet in taste, flat in nature, non-toxic, with edema, abscess and pus, cold and heat, diarrhea, urination, heat toxin, blood stasis, restlessness and spleen and stomach. ..... "Physicians believe that it has a special effect on carbuncle swelling through clinical practice. For example, Zhu's Prescription says: "This medicine can cure all carbuncle, sore, scab and red swelling, regardless of good or evil, but if it is mixed with water, it will not heal." Modern medicine has also found that adzuki beans have obvious inhibitory effects on Staphylococcus aureus, Shigella flexneri and Salmonella typhi. The economic value of adzuki bean ranks first among the whole grains, so it has the reputation of "golden bean", which has a high export exchange rate and is a hot commodity in the international market.
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