Can t you eat mung beans with medicine? People say mung beans are the antidote, right?

Strictly speaking, mung bean is the antidote to the toxicity of drugs and food, not the antidote. People also commonly use mung bean soup to relieve medicine or food poisoning.

The detoxification effect of mung bean is that mung bean protein, tannin and flavonoids in mung bean can be combined with organophosphorus pesticides, mercury, arsenic, and lead compounds to form precipitates, so that they can reduce or lose toxicity, and are not easily absorbed by the gastrointestinal tract. Therefore, patients with pesticide poisoning can take mung bean soup or raw mung bean powder at the same time as taking traditional Chinese medicine to increase the efficacy.

Mung bean soup does not affect the efficacy. According to the "Compendium of Materia Medica": "Mung bean relieves all herbs, gold and stone poisons." It means that mung beans can detoxify gold, stone, arsenic, plants and other poisons, and mung beans can detoxify the poison of the drug, not the medicinal properties of the drug.

Yes, you can't eat mung beans, turnips, these are antidotes.

The attribute of mung bean is cold, and in summer, it can effectively alleviate symptoms such as heat stroke, and can also increase appetite. However, the properties of many drugs are also cold, so many people have doubts about whether there will be conflicts when they eat mung beans after taking the medicine. Everyone will wonder if you can eat mung beans after taking medicine.

So, can you eat mung beans with medicine?

Western medicine does not clearly stipulate that mung beans should not be eaten during the period of taking medicine. When taking Western medicine orally, eating mung beans generally does not have adverse effects on the drug and will not increase the toxicity of the drug***. Mung beans are cold foods, and patients have diarrhea, so avoid eating mung beans during the medication to avoid aggravating diarrhea.

Try not to drink mung bean soup during oral antibiotics to avoid inducing diarrhea. If it is a traditional Chinese medicine ingredient, some traditional Chinese medicine and mung beans will be mutually reinforcing, so it is not suitable to take them with mung beans.

For traditional Chinese medicine: whether or not you can eat mung beans depends on the patient's disease and the type of Chinese medicine being taken. Mung bean itself is also a traditional Chinese medicine, which has the effects of clearing heat and detoxifying, dissipating heat and rejuvenating Jin, diluting water and reducing swelling.

If the patient has heat stroke, sore throat, cough and cough up yellow sputum, mumps, dry mouth, bitter mouth, ** infection, urinary tract infection, constipation and other fever symptoms.

For Western medicine: So far, there has been no research on mung beans that can make a certain Western medicine ineffective. Modern studies have found that the chemical composition of mung beans includes protein, fat, carbohydrates, vitamins B1, B2, carotene, folic acid, minerals calcium, phosphorus, iron, etc.

Otherwise, mung beans can only be regarded as general protein food, and there are no contraindications for compatibility with most drugs.

In the early stages of pregnancy, you can eat mung beans, such as mung bean soup, mung bean porridge, etc., which are drunk by pregnant women, but they cannot be eaten for a long time and in large quantities. Mung beans rely on amino acids, which can increase appetite, improve digestion, and promote development and intelligence. In addition, mung beans also contain vitamins and iron, which is beneficial to the body for pregnant women to eat in moderation.

Since mung beans are a cold food, pregnant women should not eat too much. In particular, pregnant women with weak spleen and stomach, as well as when taking medicine, need to avoid eating mung beans, otherwise it will damage their health and reduce the efficacy of the medicine. Everyone should pay attention not to eat uncooked mung beans, otherwise the fishy smell is very strong, and it is easy to feel nauseous and vomit after eating.

Mung bean soup has an excellent effect on relieving heat, but pregnant women should not drink too much, if they drink too much, it is easy to make pregnant women yin deficiency. If a pregnant woman has a weak stomach and intestines and weak limbs, she should not drink mung bean soup. In addition, when you have diarrhea, you should not drink mung bean soup.

We often hear that winter diseases are cured in summer, so many people may take some traditional Chinese medicine to regulate their bodies in summer, and it is easy to suffer from heat stroke if it is too hot in summer, most people will choose to boil mung bean soup by themselves to relieve the heat, and there are more other products of mung beans, and mung bean ice cream may often be eaten in summer, some people say that you can't eat mung beans when you take medicine, is this really the case? Can you eat mung beans with medicine?

1. It depends

Many people think that as long as they take medicine, they can't eat mung beans, in fact, this is not the case, not any medicine can not eat mung beans, but also depending on the situation, in general, there is no research found that mung beans and Western medicine will have conflicts, especially some hot diseases can drink mung bean soup during the period of taking medicine, mung bean soup itself is a traditional Chinese medicine, but some cold diseases should not be drunk during the period of taking medicine, mung beans are originally cold, drinking may aggravate the condition.

2. These diseases are edible

As mentioned above, some diseases can be drunk mung bean soup during the period of taking medicine, generally some heat diseases, mung beans have the effect of clearing heat and detoxifying and diluting water and reducing swelling, especially in summer heat stroke, you can drink mung bean soup to **, and some diseases such as wind-heat cold, sore throat, mumps and **infection can be drunk mung bean soup during the period of taking medicine, which can play an auxiliary role.

3. Eat with caution about these diseases

Do not drink mung bean soup during the period of taking medicine, such as cold constitution, spleen and stomach deficiency, arthritis, gastrointestinal diseases, etc. Diabetics can drink mung bean soup, and at that time they should put less sugar when cooking mung bean soup.

Mung bean soup generally does not have an effect on Western medicine, but traditional Chinese medicine is not necessarily, it should be determined according to the cold, heat, deficiency and reality of the disease and the medicinal properties of taking Chinese medicine, and cannot be generalized. However, if you do not know the condition and the medicinal properties of the Chinese medicine you are taking, it is best not to take mung bean with Chinese medicine without the permission of your doctor.

If you suffer from heat stroke, sore throat, cough and cough up yellow sputum, mumps, dry mouth, bitter mouth, ** infection, urinary tract infection, constipation and other fever symptoms, taking mung bean soup (porridge) or mung bean cake while taking Chinese medicine can play a complementary role and achieve twice the result with half the effort.

Mung beans are cold, which will reduce the effectiveness of qi replenishment. If you are taking ginseng, astragalus and other warm medicines, do not drink mung bean soup anymore. Mung beans have chelating effect on heavy metals and trace elements, and if mung bean soup is taken with calcium, iron, zinc and other preparations, it will reduce the efficacy or make the drug ineffective.