I heard that drinking red bean water and coffee can go to edema?

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Ladies are most afraid of being dragged down by edema, the appearance of "elephant legs" or "bucket waist". It is pointed out that red bean water or coffee can help reduce edema. Nutritionists point out that red bean water contains high potassium, which helps to counterbalance sodium and can indeed improve edema. However, traditional Chinese medicine reminds that although coffee can be diuretic, it is dry and warm, and those with weak spleen and stomach and hot bottom should not drink more.

Red bean water can help improve the salty diet.

Zhang Keqi, a registered dietitian at the Chinese University Nutrition Research Center, said that edema is mostly due to excessive intake of sodium and salt into the cells. the body needs to absorb more water to dilute the cell concentration, which in disguise causes more water to accumulate in the body. The causes of edema include a salty diet, such as office workers often eat fast food and processed food. For example, a slice of ham and luncheon meat contains 495 and 365 milligrams of sodium respectively. In addition, work "sit more, enterprise more", poor blood circulation and less drinking water, or affected by hormones before and after menstruation, will also be edema.

Zhang Keqi pointed out that potassium can counteract sodium and help remove edema. High-potassium foods include green vegetables such as broccoli and spinach.

Potassium is water-soluble. After the red bean is boiled, the potassium will dissolve in water and remove edema.

If you eat red bean dregs together, you can get fiber and help defecate and detoxify. Mixed vegetable soup such as tomato, broccoli and celery is also rich in potassium and can also remove edema.

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Edema needs more water and coffee may lead to excessive urination.

As for the theory of drinking coffee to remove edema, Zhang Keqi said that coffee can be diuretic, but excessive urination will increase the accumulation and concentration of toxins in the body, so it is not recommended to use this method to remove edema. In addition, some people think that less drinking water can improve edema, Zhang reminded edema to drink more water, in order to drain excess sodium from the body.

Liu Zhining, a registered Chinese medicine practitioner, points out that weakness of spleen and stomach, deficiency of kidney qi and deficiency of both spleen and kidney are all causes of edema. "the kidney governs the water, that is, the operation of the whole body water is related to the kidney qi; the spleen and stomach dominates digestion and transports the dampness of the water." While red bean tonifies blood and helps qi and blood run, concentrated red bean water can enter the heart and enhance metabolism, so it helps to remove edema.

However, she pointed out that coffee is dry and warm, and people with yin deficiency and fire or weak spleen and stomach should not drink more, and consuming too much caffeine can also lead to insomnia. She suggests that you can boil 15 grams of raw and cooked barley rice into water, which can strengthen the spleen and remove dampness. except for those who are prone to diarrhea, most people are suitable for edema.