White beans have many uses.

White bean is a vine, grown everywhere, for its young fruit to eat, and its mature fruit to get its seeds to use as medicine.

In Oriental medicine, white bean seeds are called white sea beans, or sea beans. If you want to use the seeds as medicine, in September - October, when the fruit is ripe, pick them, beat them to get the seeds, and dry them. From white sea bean seeds, people also make medicines such as: white sea bean y (white sea bean seed shell), white sea bean kernel (white sea bean kernel), and fried white sea bean kernel (sea bean kernel fried in a pan).

White beans

According to Oriental medicine, white beans have a sweet taste, are slightly warm, non-toxic, and enter the two meridians of the foot-taiyin spleen and foot-yangming stomach. They have the effect of strengthening the spleen, harmonizing the middle, eliminating dampness, and detoxifying. They are used as a tonic for the spleen and stomach, to stop diarrhea and dysentery, quench thirst, treat abdominal pain, red leukorrhea, and detoxify poisonous words, alcohol, meat, and fish. When used to eliminate dampness, they are used raw, while to nourish and enhance digestive function, they are roasted. Young fruits are eaten as vegetables, and old fruits are dried and the seeds are removed.

Some physicians suggest that sea beans should be classified as a tonic (along with ginseng, codonopsis, astragalus, atractylodes, Chinese yam...).

Daily dosage: 8 - 16g in decoction or powder form. Contraindications: People with weak spleen and stomach, or full stomach should be careful when using.

Summer heatstroke, fever, urinary retention:50g white beans with shell, boil well with water, strain, let cool and divide into 2 portions to drink during the day.

In the hot and humid summer and autumn, it is easy to get dampness (heat and humidity) which causes stomachache, diarrhea... To prevent and treat, you can use one of the following remedies:

Sunstroke, vomiting, diarrhea:12g white lentils, 8g patchouli, boil in water to drink. Or just use 30 white lentils, crush, add water, mix well, strain and drink.

Sun protection during the summer months: 9g white mung bean, 9g patchouli, 8g magnolia bark, 4g licorice (roasted), boil in water and drink instead of tea during the day.

Acute enteritis in summer and autumn:20g white kidney beans, 8g patchouli, 8g atractylodes, boil in water to drink.

Nourish the spleen and stomach:

Enhance digestive function, treat poor appetite, diarrhea, nausea: 250g white beans (soaked in ginger juice, peeled, fried), 250g white atractylodes (fried until golden), 100g yam (fried until golden); grind all into a fine powder, mix well, drink twice a day, 10g each time.

White kidney beans, codonopsis, atractylodes, poria, licorice - each 80g; lotus seeds, coix seeds, cardamom, platycodon - each 40g. Grind all into a fine powder, mix well; take 2-3 times a day, each time 10g of powder, use jujube decoction to take the medicine.

Acute enteritis:Grind white broad beans into fine powder, drink 3-4 times a day, 12g each time, use warm water to drink the medicine. Or use 30-60g white broad beans, boil with water, divide into 3 parts to drink during the day.

Edema:White bean seeds, roasted until golden brown, ground into fine powder, drink 2-3 times a day, 10g each time; children reduce dosage depending on age.

Purpura:100g white beans, 20 red dates, 50g rock sugar, put all in a pot to boil with water, divide into 2 doses to drink during the day.

Women with vaginal discharge,Leukorrhea, irregular menstruation: women with vaginal discharge, itching, lower back pain, lower abdominal pain, leukorrhea secreting white mucus. Can be used:

1 pound of roasted and finely ground white beans; drink 3 times a day, 8g each time, mix with boiled water or rice water, continuously for many days and you will be cured.

Women with threatened miscarriage:Pregnant women, due to a fall or taking the wrong medicine and causing miscarriage, can take 30g of raw white bean seeds, grind them finely, drink with rice water, or boil them well with water to drink. To be safe, you should consult a doctor of Eastern or Western medicine.

Children with night sweats or excessive sweating:Roast white beans, grind finely; take 5-10g per day, mix the powder with cooled boiled water, continuously for many days and you will be cured. No fear of side effects.

Children get chickenpox, get poisoned, have ulcers all over their body:White kidney beans ground into a fine powder; use this powder to rub on affected areas, it has a detoxifying and healing effect on the skin.

Detoxify:If you eat poisonous poultry, shrimp, fish... leading to allergies or poisoning, you can use white kidney beans to treat it according to the following methods:

- 30g fresh white bean seeds, crushed, mixed with cooled boiled water and drink.

- Take a handful of raw white beans (about 20g), mix with cooled boiled water, grind finely, and drink.

- 1 kg of white bean seeds, roasted, ground into fine powder, mixed with cooled boiled water, drink 3 times a day, 12g each time, continuously for many days, has detoxifying effect.

White bean flower (sea of ​​bean flowers)

Sweet taste, neutral properties, non-toxic, has the effect of strengthening the spleen and harmonizing the stomach, clearing heat and transforming dampness. Used to treat dysentery, diarrhea, and leukorrhea. Dose 4 - 9g, white bean flowers eaten as raw vegetables strengthen the spleen and harmonize the stomach, clearing heat and transforming dampness, clearing heat and generating body fluids, laxative, and astringent.

Summer dysentery diarrhea, fever, acute and severe:15-20g of white pea flower, put in a pot to boil with a chicken egg; eat the egg and drink the medicine. Or use dried white pea flower, grind into fine powder; drink 3 times a day, 3g each time, take the medicine with rice water.

Children with poor appetite:15 - 20g white bean flower, boil with water, add a little sugar and drink daily, continuously for many days.

Summer heatstroke, chest fullness, nausea, diarrhea: use 8g white bean flower, 12g fresh patchouli leaves, boil and drink instead of water during the day.

Women with vaginal discharge and irregular menstruation: dry flower powder, take 2g each time, 2-3 times a day on an empty stomach with rice water.

Acute enteritis:60g of roasted white bean flowers, boil in water and drink twice a day.

White bean leaves (white bean leaves)

Spicy, sweet, neutral, slightly toxic. Indications: Diarrhea, vomiting, cramps.

- Blood in urine:20-30g fresh green bean leaves, roasted until golden brown, drink 2-3 times a day.

- Mouth vomiting, limbs cramps. Pick a handful of white bean leaves, crush them, add a little vinegar and squeeze out the juice to drink.

White bean root (white bean root)

Dosage 6 - 9g. After harvesting, dig up the roots, wash and dry them for later use.

Joint pain, numb limbs: when joints hurt, you can use 30g of white bean root, boil well with water, divide into many parts to drink during the day; has pain relieving effect.

According to SK&DS