Traditional Chinese Medicine for Weight Loss and Clearing Heat: Efficacy and Application of Mung Beans, Rehmannia Root, and Cassia Seed

Detailed Explanation of the Weight Loss Effects of Traditional Chinese Medicine

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Clears heat and toxins from the body.

There are four types of hot constitutions: deficiency heat, excess heat, generalized heat, and localized heat. Each type has slightly different characteristics, but clearing heat and losing weight is suitable for people with all types of hot constitutions.

The medicinal herbs used for clearing heat and losing weight are cooling in nature. This is based on the principle of "treating heat with cold," hoping that obese people with a hot constitution can achieve weight loss through the process of reducing internal heat, detoxifying, and purifying the blood.

Many people with a constitution prone to heatiness particularly enjoy eating various cold foods, believing that this will help eliminate the heatiness. However, this is a completely wrong idea.

Generally speaking, if you eat cold food directly instead of using medicinal herbs, it will cause an imbalance between hot and cold in your body. It may even disrupt your body's metabolic system due to excessive stimulation, resulting in obesity or making it impossible to lose weight.

Therefore, people with a "hot" constitution should make good use of cooling and weight-loss foods to achieve their weight loss goals.

green beans

effect

Mung beans are cold in nature and sweet in taste. They contain a variety of nutrients such as protein, calcium, iron, phosphorus, cellulose, carotene, vitamin A, and vitamin C. The protein in mung beans contains a relatively complete range of amino acids, and is also high in phenylalanine and lysine, making them highly nutritious.

The ancient Chinese medical sage Li Shizhen once praised mung beans as "a grain that benefits the world, an essential ingredient among grains, and a fine vegetable." However, it should be noted that people with weak constitutions or those suffering from spleen and kidney deficiency should not consume too much, and pregnant women should not eat them at all, as it may lead to premature birth or miscarriage.

In Chinese dietary therapy, mung beans are often used not only for cooking but also for grinding or powdering. Mung beans are known for their slimming and beautifying effects, as well as their ability to clear heat, detoxify, and promote urination, making them a popular weight-loss ingredient, especially in summer.

How to apply it?

Mung bean and lily bulb porridge: Cook an appropriate amount of mung beans and lily bulbs together into porridge and eat it once a day. This can not only help reduce swelling and diuresis, but also eliminate melanin on the face. If you simply cook mung beans into a soup without adding other ingredients, drink a bowl before each meal for one to two months to eliminate acne and also have a beautifying effect.

Mung bean and barley soup: Mung beans clear heat, relieve summer heat, and quench thirst. Drinking this soup often in summer can prevent heatstroke and improve mood. Additionally, cooking mung beans and barley into a soup and replacing rice with either lunch or dinner daily provides a feeling of fullness while being very low in calories, thus aiding in weight loss.

Mung bean and large intestine soup: Cook mung beans and large intestine together, and season with a little salt. This soup can treat hemorrhoids and anal fissures.

Rehmannia

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Rehmannia root is the root of Rehmannia glutinosa, a plant in the Scrophulariaceae family. Dried Rehmannia root is called dried Rehmannia root or dried Rehmannia root.

Rehmannia glutinosa is cold in nature and sweet in taste. It contains citronellol, rehmannia glutinosa extract, phosphoric acid, etc., and has the effects of clearing heat and cooling blood, promoting body fluid and quenching thirst, and eliminating grease. It is especially suitable for people with a constitution of deficiency heat and who often feel dry mouth and tongue. In addition, the rehmannia glutinosa extract and citronellol are both good for lowering blood sugar and can prevent blood sugar rise caused by adrenaline.

How to apply it?

Rehmannia Decoction: Boil 10-30 grams of Rehmannia glutinosa in water and drink it once in the morning and once in the evening. It has the effect of lowering blood sugar and reducing lipids.

Cassia seeds

effect

Cassia seeds are slightly cold in nature and have a sweet and bitter taste. They contain components such as rhein, emodin, chrysophanol, cassia seed extract, and aloe-emodin, which can inhibit the rise of serum cholesterol and aortic sclerosis, and have the effects of lowering blood lipids and promoting excretion.

How to apply it?

Cassia seed water: Boil 5-10 grams of cassia seeds in water and drink it once in the morning and once in the evening. Long-term use can help with bowel movements and weight loss.

Cassia seed tea: Fry 30 grams of cassia seeds until golden brown, grind them into powder, steep the powder with boiling water for 10 minutes, and after it cools slightly, you can add some honey and stir. Drink it once a day to help with weight loss.

Weight loss and fitness tea: Steep 0.5 grams of cassia seeds and 0.5 grams of hawthorn in boiling water and drink three times a day. It can help reduce fat, lower blood pressure, and promote weight loss and fitness.

Flying Swallow Slimming Tea: Take a small pinch each of jasmine tea, lotus leaf, areca nut, cassia seed, green tangerine peel, and costus root. Steep in boiling water and drink once every night. It can promote urination and bowel movements, and help with metabolism and weight loss.