[Variety Source]

Rice Bean (Vigna umbellata (Thunb.) Ohwi et H. Ohashi), also known as adzuki beans and red rice beans, is a leguminous plant with a similar shape to red beans but slightly elongated, causing confusion. Rice beans also have other colors, mainly red and yellow. Red is Rice Bean. Rice Bean is mainly used in Chinese materia medica and is often mixed with red beans. However, Rice Bean has better medicinal effect. Cultivated or wild. Distributed in Guangdong, Guangxi, Jiangxi and Shanghai suburbs. The quality of medicinal materials is rice beans, but the supply is limited, so it is gradually replaced by adzuki beans.

[Character]

Rice Bean dry seeds are slightly cylindrical and slightly flat, 5 to 7 mm long and 5 mm in diameter. About 3 mm, the seed coat is russet or purple-brown, smooth, slightly shiny, and the hilum is linear and white, about 2/3 of the total length. It is sunken into a longitudinal groove in the middle, leaning toward one end, and there is an inconspicuous ridge on the back. It is hard and not easily broken. After removing the seed coat, two milky white petals can be seen in the kernel. The smell is slight and there is a beany smell when chewed. The ones with dry body, plump grains, reddish and dark color are better.

[Property]

sweet and sour, neutral.

1. "Health Preservation Essential Collection": bitter, warm.
2. Bielu: sweet and sour, neutral, nontoxic.
3. "Qian Jin·Food Treatment": sweet and salty, neutral, nontoxic.
4. "Food habits materia medica": slightly cold.
5. Tangye Bencao: warm, acrid, sweet and sour, nontoxic.

Act on heart and small intestine channels.

1. Leigong Paozhi Yaoxing Jie: act on heart channel.
2. Bencao Xinbian: act on spleen channel.
3. Depei Bencao: act on hand shaoyin and taiyang channels.
4. Bencao Zaixin: Act on heart and lung channels.

[Efficacy]

Diuresis and dampness, blood expelling pus, swelling and removing toxin.

[Indications]

Treat edema, athlete's foot, jaundice, diarrhea, bloody stool, and carbuncle.

[Documentation]

1. Benjing: "The main water is used to drain carbuncle, pus and blood."
2. Bielu: "The main part is Hanre, hot "Medium, consumptive thirst, stop diarrhea, facilitate urination, vomiting, constipation, lower bloating"
3. Yaoxing Lun: "eliminate heat toxin, carbuncle, dissipate bad blood, inexhaustibility, and irritability." To treat swelling of edema skin and muscles; pound it thinly and apply it on carbuncle; treat acute jaundice and sores in children, take juice and wash it; it can make people eat better; mix it with egg white and apply heat toxin on carbuncle; ventilate and strengthen the spleen and stomach. "
4. Shiliao Bencao: "Cooking it with rotten carp can cure athlete's foot and abdominal retention of water; it can dissipate qi, remove joint heat, make the heart orifice open, and stop urination. The ones that are green and red are edible. If you are too angry to eat, boil it. "
5. Shu Bencao: "If you are sick and have a fever, drink the juice."
6. "Food Materia Medica"; strengthens bones and muscles, cures water qi, and relieves wheat heat toxin.
7. Rihuazi Bencao: "Adzuki bean powder, cures troubles, relieves heat toxin, expelling pus, tonifying blood vessels."
8. Gangmu: "Prevents pestilence, cures "Difficult delivery, placenta is administered to relieve breast milk."
9. Bencao Zaixin: "Clear heat and blood, promote diuresis and promote menstruation, widen the intestines and regulate qi."

[Usage and Dosage]

Oral administration: decoction, 0.3 to 1 tael; or add powder. External use: Shengyan preparation and application.

[Precaution]

1. Tao Hong-jing: "Sex follows body fluids, and eating for a long time makes people boring."
2. "Food Nature materia medica": "Eating for a long time makes people thin."
3. "Suixiju Diet" : "If a snake bites you, avoid it within a hundred days."

[Modern Pharmacology]

Each 100 grams contains 20.7 grams of protein, 0.5 grams of fat, 58 grams of carbohydrates, 4.9 grams of crude fiber, 3.3 grams of ash, 67 mg of calcium, 305 mg of phosphorus, 5.2 mg of iron, 0.31 mg of thiamine, 0.11 mg of riboflavin, Niacin 2.7 mg.

[Modern Application]

1. To treat mumps, grind 50 to 70 rice beans into fine powder, mix with warm water, egg white or honey to make a thin paste, spread it on a cloth and apply it to the affected area. Generally, swelling can be reduced in one session. Seven cases were treated and all achieved results.
2. Treatment of liver cirrhosis abdominal retention of water: Take 1 jin of rice beans and 1 live carp (over 1 jin in weight), put them in the same pot, add 2000 to 3000 ml of water and stew until the rice beans are rotten. Take rice beans, fish and soup in divided portions. 1 dose daily or every other day. Take it continuously until it heals. Two cases were treated. After taking it, urine output increased, abdominal circumference decreased, and they were in good spirits without any adverse reactions.

[Selection of Prescriptions]

1. Treatment of edema: unable to sit or lie down, head, face and body all swollen: mulberry twig, burn ashes, pour juice, boil rice beans. Empty food will make you full. If you are hungry, you will eat all your food, so you are not allowed to eat. ("Prescriptions collected by Plum Master")
2. To treat abdominal retention of water: lalang grass rhizome, a large handful, three liters of adzuki beans, boil them dry, remove the roots and eat the beans, and drain the water with urine. ( Buque Zhouhou Fang )
3. Treat edema starting from the feet and entering the abdomen to kill: one liter of Rice Bean, boil it until it is very rotten, take four or five liters of juice, warm it and soak it below the knees; if it has Enter the abdomen, but take adzuki beans, do not eat anything. ( Duxingfang )
4. To treat athlete's foot: 5 pieces of Rice Bean, 1 piece of gourd, 1 piece of Fresh Ginger Rhizome (broken into pieces), 1 piece of Pokeberry Root (cut into pieces). Boil the beans with water and make a soup of rotten beans. It is suitable for cold and warm temperatures. Remove the gourds, etc., chew the beans carefully, eat them on an empty stomach, swirl them around and sip the juice until all is gone. ( Bencao Tujing )
5. Treatment of athlete’s foot, shortness of breath, astringent stools, swollen body, bloated feet, and watery feet: Rice Bean half a liter, mulberry root white skin (broiled, filed) 2 Two, one handful of Perilla Leaf stems and leaves (filed and roasted). In addition to adzuki beans, the top three flavors are pounded into powder. For each dose, first take one cup of beans, cook it with five cups of water, remove the beans, take two and a half cups of juice, add four qian daggers of medicinal powder, one part of Fresh Ginger Rhizome, smash into pieces, fry until one cup and a half, hollow and warm, then take Take the beans and eat them as you like, day after day. (Shengji Zonglu Rice Bean Soup)
6. To treat diseases caused by cold, the blood stasis and heat will be inside, and the body will turn yellow: Ephedra 2 liang (remove the joints), Lianjin 2 liang, Rice Bean 1 liter, Bitter Apricot Seed 40 pieces (peeled and sharpened), Chinese Date 12 pieces (blown), Raw Azusa White Peel (cut) 1 liter, Fresh Ginger Rhizome 2 taels (cut), Liquorice Root 2 taels (broiled). For the eight flavors, take a bucket of water, boil Ephedra first and then boil it, remove the foam, add all the medicines, boil three liters, remove the dregs, divide the temperature into three servings, and drink it all in half a day. ("Disease caused by cold" Ephedra, Forsythia and Rice Bean Decoction)
7. To treat acute jaundice, the body is like gold: one tael of Rice Bean, one point of Clove, one point of millet, half a point of Muskmelon Base, one penny of incense smoke, Five inches of green cloth (burnt ashes), one coin of musk (fine grinding). Pound the medicine into powder and mix well. Regardless of the time of taking each dose, mix one penny with clear porridge and drink; if you blow a little into your nose, you will get yellow water immediately. (Shenghui Fang Rice Bean Powder)
8. To treat intestinal hemorrhoids and frequent blood in the stool: add one liter of adzuki beans and five liters of vinegar. Boil the beans until they are dry. Add them to sake and wait for the wine to stop. Drinking service square-cun spoon, grade III. ( Zhouzhou Fang )
9. To treat heat toxin bleeding, or caused by eating hot food: Rice Bean pestle, mixed with water and a square-cun spoon. ("Plum Master's Collection of Prescriptions") The first ten treatments for gangrene: Apply the powdered adzuki beans with vinegar and it will disappear. (Xiaopin Fang )
10. Treat large small intestine carbuncle, dampness-heat qi stagnation caused by blood stasis: Rice Bean, Coix Seed, Stephania Tetrandra, Liquorice Root, decoction and take. ("Shortcut to the Department of Ulcers" Red Bean and Coix Decoction)
11. To treat erysipelas in children, the flesh is as red as red, as big as the hand, or even all over the body, or painful, itchy or swollen: two liters of Rice Bean. At the end of the day, the egg white and thin mud will be applied, and it will be easy to dry. Use this recipe for all elixirs. ( Qianjin Fang )
12. To treat hot and swollen cheeks: Apply rice bean powder and honey, or add hibiscus leaf powder. ( Gangmu )
13. Treatment of carcinoma of tongue in children: powder rice beans, vinegar and apply on the tongue. ( Qianjin Fang )
14. To treat sudden bleeding on the tongue, like hairpin holes: 1 liter of adzuki beans, crushed in a pestle, 3 liters of water, stir and drink the juice. ( Zhouzhou Fang )
15. promoting lactation juice: Boil Rice Bean and drink the juice. ("Yan Shu Prescription")
16. To treat women with breast blowing: Grind Rice Bean with wine, take it warmly, and apply it with water. (Furen Liangfang Supplement)
17. To treat wind and pruritus urticaria: divide rice beans and fineleaf nepeta spike into powder, mix with egg and apply on it. ( Gangmu )
18. Treatment of animal meat poisoning: burn one liter of adzuki beans, powder, and take three square-cun spoons. ( Qianjin Fang )