[Health & Wellness] Relieve summer heat, dispel dampness, and prevent illness… Regularly drinking three-bean soup after the start of “fu” marks a solid foundation for good health in the second half of the year!
Release Date:
2020-07-21
The “Sanfu” period is when the body’s surface qi and blood are at their peak throughout the year, making it the golden window for treating winter ailments in summer. Today we’d like to recommend a soup that’s perfect for drinking during Sanfu—and you can continue enjoying it until the end of the “Chushu” solar term, with twice a week being the ideal frequency.
Here’s a little secret: once the “Dog Days” begin, sipping on three-bean soup not only lays a solid foundation for staying healthy through the summer, but also sets the stage for good health in the second half of the year!
The recipe for Three-Bean Soup originates from the Song Dynasty medical work “Lei Bian Zhu’s Collection of Proven Medical Prescriptions.” It is composed entirely of food ingredients, making it very safe; it is both a sweet dessert and a delicious medicinal tea.
What are the three beans in San Dou Tang?
There are mung beans, adzuki beans, and black beans—each of the “three beans” has its own unique benefits, and they work best when combined harmoniously.
1. Black beans tonify the kidneys, nourish essence, and clear heat;
2. Mung beans have the effects of clearing heat, detoxifying, and relieving summer heat;
3. Adzuki beans have the effects of clearing heat, promoting diuresis, and reducing edema.
Consuming the three beans together makes for an excellent summer remedy that cools the body, clears heat, dispels dampness, and helps prevent illness. In the Three-Bean Soup, mung beans and adzuki beans excel at clearing heat, relieving summer heat, and promoting diuresis to eliminate dampness, while black beans tonify the spleen and nourish the kidneys. Mung beans are inherently cold in nature; the addition of black beans partially counteracts this cooling effect. Therefore, this soup is particularly beneficial for individuals with a weak and cold spleen and stomach—especially children and the elderly.
Three-bean soup not only clears heat and dispels summer heat, but also strengthens the spleen and promotes the elimination of dampness. For individuals with a generally healthy constitution, regular consumption of moderate amounts of three-bean soup will not adversely affect spleen and stomach function.
How to Make Three-Bean Soup
Ingredients: 20 grams each of mung beans, adzuki beans, and black beans; rock sugar to taste.
Method:
1. Rinse the beans thoroughly, then soak them in clean water for 1 hour;
2. Place the three beans in a pot, add an appropriate amount of water, bring to a boil over high heat, then reduce the heat and simmer gently for 1 hour. Once the beans have fully expanded and blossomed, add rock sugar and continue to cook for another 5 minutes. Allow to cool, then enjoy the beans together with the sweet syrup.
Precautions for Drinking Three-Bean Soup
San Dou Tang can be consumed twice a week; it is not advisable to drink it every day. The best time to enjoy it is during the Sanfu period, and at the latest, it should be consumed by the end of the Chushu solar term.
Older adults, children, or individuals with a sensitive stomach may substitute rock sugar with an appropriate amount of brown sugar, as brown sugar is warming in nature.
Mung bean soup, which we often drink in everyday life, is highly effective at relieving summer heat; however, it has a distinctly cold nature, so people with spleen and stomach deficiency-cold should not consume it frequently. San Dou Tang, on the other hand, strikes a good balance: the addition of black beans helps to moderate its cooling properties. For those with particularly weak digestive function, an appropriate amount of rice can be added to the three beans and simmered into a light congee, which also has the effects of clearing heat and strengthening the spleen.
Recommended soy-based drinks that are effective against summer ailments
1
Febrile Seizures in Children
This condition, caused by high fever damaging body fluids, liver deficiency in nourishing the blood, and extreme heat generating wind, is treated with black beans, mung beans, and fermented soybeans, combined with hook vine,僵蚕 (Bombyx batryticus), insect exuviae, and bamboo shavings.
2
Food allergy
For generalized pruritus that is intensely and intolerably itchy, use Zhi Shi San Dou Yin Qiao San.
3
Multiple boils
For conditions characterized by wind, fire, dampness, and heat, treatment should focus on clearing heat and detoxifying, dispelling wind, and promoting the elimination of dampness, using black beans, mung beans, red rice beans, mulberry leaves, schizonepeta, honeysuckle, forsythia, burdock seeds, and licorice.
4
Nocturnal Enuresis in Children
For those with excess Liver and deficiency of the Spleen, use black beans, mung beans, adzuki beans, Chinese yam, lotus seeds, black plums, and rock sugar.
5
Measles Prevention
Black beans, mung beans, red adzuki beans, lithospermum, honeysuckle, and licorice may be used.
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