【Description】
Because of unhealthy lifestyles and poor eating habits, people in today’s world often have an accumulation of damp heat, damp coldness and damp toxins in their bodies. Body dampness is the root cause of many diseases, such as itchy skin and muscle pain, or even worse, joint pain, gynecological inflammation and tumors.
Bian Que, the great doctor who lived during the Eastern Han dynasty, invented a famous diet therapy for these diseases – Bian Que Three-Bean Soup. It can replenish the kidney energy, strengthen spleen function, clear internal heat, and detoxify the body. It’s suitable for daily health preservation. How to make it? Please take a look at JinBodhi’s Healthy Recipe.
【You will learn】
- Understand the causes and symptoms of body dampness.
- Learn how to make Bian Que Three-Bean Soup and how to maximize the health benefits.
- Learn the benefits of eating ricebeans, mung beans, black beans, and licorice root.
【Content】
Hello, my dear friends. Today’s topic is on severe damp heat in the body. Body dampness can be categorized into 2 cases: damp plus heat energy and damp plus cold energy.
The symptoms could be caused by mild or severe dampness. In the beginning, the symptoms can be mild and easily cured. You will have skin issues if your body has mild dampness. For example, itchy skin. Or acne and eczema. Your face may become oily. Be careful if you have these mild symptoms; you should realize your body has amassed damp heat.
When it develops further, it will affect your muscles. The dampness gets deeper into your body gradually; you will feel tension in neck and shoulders. You will be sleepy all day and have back pain as well. You will have a feeling of fatigue. It keeps going inward, from your skin to muscles and bones. Then you will get arthritis. You will feel joint pain, especially in your large joints.
Then the dampness enters the gut. In addition, women’s womb, ovaries, digestive system, and lungs can easily be affected by this damp heat. The damp heat can weaken your digestive system. It can also cause constipation, excess phlegm, and gynecological inflammation in women. If you let it develop, you will experience severe disease. It could turn into a tumor or something like that. That would be serious.
Many factors can cause body dampness, such as an imbalanced diet or unhealthy lifestyles. For example, eating a lot of meat, seafood and barbecued food. Or, an even more extreme example: Some hotpot lovers eat hotpot once a week. Drinking cold beverages and eating ice cream frequently also cause dampness in the body.
Besides, some people eat a lot of high-calorie food, without exercise, or too little exercise. They stay up late, often pulling all-nighters. They are desperate to use an air conditioner when it is getting hot. These people need to be careful.
So today, I will introduce a special recipe that is particularly simple and effective at eliminating dampness. We adopt a healthy diet to adjust and prevent those problems. Of course, those who already have body dampness can also be cured if they use this recipe. Because it has certain curative effects.
This recipe was written more than 2,000 years ago, during the Spring and Autumn Period and Warring States Period, by the great doctor Bian Que. In the most sacred medical book in China, Compendium of Materia Medica, this recipe was also well explained. The recipe is called “Bian Que 3-Bean Soup.”
The main ingredients are mung beans, black beans, ricebeans, and licorice root. The 3 beans are the main ingredients. The licorice root is an auxiliary. Mung bean is mainly used to remove heat from the liver; it can detoxify the body that has damp heat and cure stomach upset that’s due to wrong medication or unhealthy food. Drinking mung bean soup can relieve your stomach discomfort.
Next, let’s talk about the black beans. We are talking about the black beans with green kernels. The black bean is very useful to the kidney, replenishing its energy. It can also remove heat energy from the kidney.
Next is the ricebean. There are many kinds of red beans. When shopping, tell the seller you want ricebeans. Ricebeans have many effects. They can lower blood pressure and cholesterol, improve blood circulation, and support bowel movement. Ricebeans also have diuretic and anti-swelling properties. If your eyelids are swollen, drink some ricebean soup. The swelling may disappear.
These 3 kinds of good beans work together and have magical effects. Then add the licorice root to mediate the formula. The licorice root is a magical thing. It can be mixed with many kinds of medicine. And it can clear internal heat and poisons. It can nourish your spleen and qi. It helps us balance the food or medicine that we consume, breaking it all down and distributing it. So adding licorice root makes the soup even more effective.
Next, let me teach you how to cook it. First of all, let’s clean these beans with water. After cleaning, they can be soaked together. Soaking for more than 8 to 10 hours would be best. Then let’s start cooking. We put the 3 kinds of beans into a pot. Add 8 to 10 times more water than beans. Then bring it to a boil. When it comes to a boil, reduce the heat to low. Then, add the licorice root to the pot.
What about the amount of licorice root? Half of one kind of beans. If we added 3 kinds of beans, 100 grams each, add 50 grams of the licorice root. What about the cooking time? About 1.5 to 2 hours on low heat. Then the effect will be the best.
OK, I have a bowl of this soup here. Regarding any food that benefits our health, except for daily regular meals, we don’t need to eat too much every day. For this soup, we may cook it one or 2 times a week. Drink it warm for a better effect. Don’t do something such as add ice, sugar or honey to it. That won’t work. OK, that’s how it’s cooked. Do you understand?
If you have a weaker digestive system, what should you do? Replace the ricebeans with the same amount of soybeans. In this case, it will benefit people who have poor digestive systems.
Next, summer is coming. Some places in the world are always in summertime. For example, Malaysia, Singapore, Indonesia and so on. And the southern areas of India. It is always hot and humid. Many people there have amassed damp toxins. The damp toxins cause various diseases, even cancers. It is terrible.
So use this special recipe to make Bian Que 3-Bean Soup. We can also just call it 3-Bean Soup. It is quite effective. I hope you can eat a healthy diet. Live long and happily with a healthy diet. Thank you, all.