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Bot.: Glycine max

Sojabohne: Samen/Soybean: Seeds

Healing power:
- Because of the amount of phytoestrogens Soybean is said to help for breast cancer.

- The active substances isoflavones work against skin aging, take care for a better elasticity of the epidermis and a better tonus. Soybean promotes renewal of the cells and activates the building of collagen.

The skin of the Black Soybean is used in Chinese medicine

- for nightly sweat,

- exessively sweating,

- headache,

- for poor eyesight,

- rheumatic arthritis.

Fermented Black Soybeans are used in China

- for typhoid,

- fever,

- headache,

- colds.

- The Yellow Soybean is said to lower cholesterol in the blood.

- Tofu is used for skin diseases like ulcers and wounds. The tofu has to be put on the concerned places.

- Tofusoup is eaten for colds.

How to use:
The oil is extracted from the Soybeans and mostly processed to margarine. What is left over is a pressed cake from protein and carbohydrates, which is processed to many other products:
Soyflour for souces, soups and bred, cakes and pastries.
Soymilk as alternative to cowmilk.
Soyprotein is fermented into cheese like
Sufu, Miso, Natto, Temphe.
Also Soyyoghurt and Soyquark is made.
The Soyprotein is processed to soymeat.

Recipe for the Soybean face mask against skin aging:
Soyflour and water have to be mixed to a paste. Lay it on the skin. When the ointment has worked in after 25 minutes you wash your skin.

Description of the plant:
The subtropical Soybean, about which was already reported 1000 before Christ, originally comes from East Asia. At the end of the 19th century the Soybean came to America and Europe.
Soybean grows annual, shrubby and gets a height up to 80 cm. The roots are deep. The plant belongs to the family of the peas and beans.
The flowers are violet or white. Soybeans need in summer and autumn high temperatures and a loose-packed soil. Yellow Soybeans is said to have got the same effects like Black Soybeans. The skin of the Black Soybeans you get by germination in water. Then it is possible to skin them and dry them. Soybean belongs to the plants used in traditional Chinese medicine. The Chinese use the Black Soybean (heidadou) and the Yellow Soybean.

Ingredients:
Phytoestrogens
Proteins
Linoleic acid
Linolen acid
Oil acid
Palmitolein acid
Arachin acid
Stearin acid
Palmitin acid
Isoflavones
Calium
Ferments