The efficacy and function of soybean

Soybeans can not only supplement the body's nutritional elements, but also help regulate various functions of the body. They also have high medicinal value. Today, I will take you to learn about soybeans.

[Alias] Soybean (Daily Materia Medica).

[Source] The yellow seed coat of soybean, a plant of the legume family.

【Original form】For details about the form, please refer to the "black soybean" article.

【Chemical composition】 See the entry for "black soybean".

【Nature and flavor】 Sweet, neutral.

[entry into meridians] Enters the spleen and large intestine meridians.

【Function and indication】 Strengthens the spleen and relieves fullness, moisturizes dryness and eliminates water. It is used to treat malnutrition, diarrhea, abdominal distension, plague, poisoning during pregnancy, sores, carbuncles, swellings and bleeding due to trauma.

[Usage and Dosage] For oral use: decoct in water, 1 to 3 liang; or grind into powder. For external use: mash and apply or fry and grind into powder for application.

【Note】 "Compendium of Materia Medica": "Eating too much can cause gas blockage, phlegm, and cough, making the body feel heavy and causing yellow sores and scabies on the face."

[Additional prescription] ① To treat simple indigestion: one pound of soybeans and ten pounds of blood vine. Boil the blood vine to extract the juice. Before concentrating, pour the ground soy milk into the blood vine juice and boil it for twenty minutes. Filter out the residue, dry the concentrated liquid and grind it into powder for later use. For children, take 0.5 to 1.0 grams each time, four times a day. (Guangxi "Prescription Collection of New Chinese Herbal Medicine Treatment Methods")

【Discussions by various scholars】 "Bencao Qiuzhen": "Soybean, according to the book, tastes sweet, and taking too much will make you gassy, ​​produce phlegm and cause cough. It is also said that it can relieve gas in the middle and lower parts of the body, benefit the large intestine, and eliminate water swelling and toxicity. The reasoning seems to be two-sided. Who knows that the book says that sweetness will cause stagnation, which means that it is fried and the gas is not released; the book says that it can relieve gas in the middle and lower parts of the body and benefit the intestine, which means that it is raw and cold and not fried. All things are relieved when they are raw, and stagnant when they are cooked. Although soybeans are sweet and warm in nature, the water vapor is not released when they are raw, and taking too much will cause the harm of relieving. Therefore, soybeans must be divided into raw and cooked, and the treatment is different in tonic and purgative. If used for tonic, they must be fried, but it is better to eat less. If they are taken too much without moderation, they will definitely cause the harm of producing phlegm, shaping gas and causing cough."

【Clinical application】 ①Treatment of lower leg ulcers

【Excerpt】 《*Dictionary》

[Source] From Ning Yuan's "Food and Materia Medica" and "Compendium of Materia Medica": The ash from burnt soybean straw can be used as a medicine for removing moles and bad skin.

Although soybeans have many magical effects, they cannot be eaten casually. We need to use the medicine according to the user's own situation. I hope everyone will not take it indiscriminately to avoid unnecessary consequences.