The heat is unbearable, and a bowl of cool and refreshing mung bean soup would be the best. However, many people who are taking medicine are respectful of mung bean soup, because there is a saying in the folk that "one should not eat mung beans when taking traditional Chinese medicine to avoid the antidote.".
However, is this really the case?
Can mung beans be used as an antidote?
To meet these two conditions
In fact, the term "mung bean antidote" is a bit too serious.
From the perspective of Western medicine, the plant protein contained in mung beans can undergo metal chelation reactions with some components in drugs, which can reduce the original effectiveness of the drug. However, in order for mung beans to have an antidote effect, two conditions must be met: high dosage and high concentration:
High dose:
Green beans are not the only type of food that contains plant protein. Soybeans contain much more plant protein than mung beans. If mung beans are said to be the antidote just because they contain plant protein, then the most effective antidote is not mung beans, but soybeans.
High concentration:
After all, mung beans are food and not extracted or concentrated active ingredients, so even if you eat mung beans, the concentration of plant protein is still very low. If you boil them into soup, you will drink less plant protein.
So, whether it's food made from mung beans or soup boiled from mung beans, their impact on drug efficacy is far less significant than that of purified, concentrated foods or drugs.
Green beans can alleviate
Toxicity of heavy metal poisoning
If it must be said that mung beans can cure, there is only one possibility: to treat patients with heavy metal poisoning. This stems from the treatment experience of those who have taken poison in the past, as recorded in the Compendium of Materia Medica: "Mung beans have a sweet and cold odor, are non-toxic... and can detoxify all herbs, cattle, horses, and stones."
This is because the combination of heavy metal ions with human enzymes or proteins will cause toxic reactions. In order to minimize the combination of heavy metal ions with human functional proteins, it is necessary to drink a large amount of pure milk, soybean milk and other foods with high protein content in time to combine heavy metal ions.
Some people may ask here that mung bean is not the food with the highest protein content. Why use mung bean soup instead of soybean milk?
Traditional Chinese medicine believes that mung beans are diuretic. Drinking mung bean soup can not only increase the amount of water consumed, but also accelerate the body's metabolism, helping to quickly remove toxins from the body after sedimentation, thus achieving the goal of detoxification.
From this perspective, although mung bean soup has a alleviating effect on heavy metal poisoning, it cannot solve all poisoning problems. If heavy metal poisoning occurs, it is important to seek medical attention as soon as possible. Whether to use mung bean soup for detoxification should still follow the doctor's diagnosis.
Green beans have a sweet and cool taste
Remember these three points when eating
In the scorching summer, drinking a bowl of mung bean soup can clear heat, reduce fire, and relieve heat. However, it is also important to be careful when drinking mung bean soup. If you drink it incorrectly, it may not only fail to have a cooling effect, but may also cause harm to the body.
Not suitable for boiling mung bean soup in an iron pot
The active ingredients of mung beans are mostly found in the skin. If cooked in an iron pot, the flavonoids and metal ions in it will react, forming a darker complex. The mung bean soup cooked will turn black and cause gastrointestinal discomfort after consumption. If you have a clay pot at home, it is most suitable for cooking mung bean soup.
Not suitable for drinking chilled mung bean soup
If the mung bean soup you drink is ice, or if you drink mung bean soup in winter, the cold and cool nature of mung beans will be amplified. At this time, mung beans are not simply "relieving" the warm and hot nature of drugs, but will exacerbate the degree of spleen and stomach deficiency cold, further damage the spleen and stomach, and in severe cases, may cause spleen and stomach dysfunction and diarrhea.
It's best to add some pumpkin, Poria cocos, and lilies
Warm pumpkin can to some extent neutralize the coolness of mung beans. The mung bean soup cooked in this way can not only clear heat and reduce heat, but also strengthen the spleen. Moreover, the mung bean soup with pumpkin is still sweet, without the need for additional sugar seasoning.
Poria cocos and lilies, one for dampness and one for heart fire, have two additional effects compared to simply adding pumpkin. Pairing them with mung beans not only flattens the warmth and coolness, but also preserves the original properties of mung beans in relieving heat. People who usually don't dare to eat something cold and run to the restroom may want to give it a try when the heat is unbearable~