Can mung bean soup be drunk with medicine?

Mung bean is the antidote to the toxicity of drugs and foods, not the antidote. Mung bean soup is also commonly used to relieve people with drug or food poisoning. So, can you eat mung beans when taking Chinese medicine?

This problem cannot be generalized, which is related to the type of disease: such as heat stroke, sore throat, cough and cough up yellow phlegm, 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 traditional Chinese medicine can play a complementary role and achieve twice the result with half the effort. In addition, the detoxification effect of mung bean is that mung bean protein, tannin and flavonoids in mung bean can combine with organophosphorus pesticides, mercury, arsenic and lead compounds to form precipitates, so that they can reduce or lose their 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. Because mung beans are cold, it is not beneficial to people with spleen and stomach deficiency and body yang deficiency, such as chronic gastroenteritis, cold pain in limbs and joints, numbness, poor activity, abdominal pain, diarrhea, dysmenorrhea and other deficiency and cold diseases, mung beans should be fasted while taking traditional Chinese medicine. Otherwise, it will not only reduce the efficacy of traditional Chinese medicine, but also aggravate the condition.

Whether you can take mung beans when taking traditional Chinese medicine is also related to the medicinal properties of the traditional Chinese medicine you take: when taking heat-clearing traditional Chinese medicines such as Coptis chinensis, skullcap, cork, large green leaves, radix radix, bezoar, honeysuckle, gypsum, etc., taking it with mung beans can play a complementary role. When taking ginseng, astragalus, cinnamon, aconite, cloves, galangal and other warm tonic drugs and cinnamon branches, dried ginger, fine spice and other warm meridian and cold dissipating traditional Chinese medicines, do not take mung beans without the permission of the doctor, so as not to reduce the efficacy and affect the best effect.

Mung beans have a sweet taste, have the effect of clearing heat and detoxifying, and can enhance the body's immunity. Mung beans also have a certain effect on the medicine, and it is best not to use mung bean soup to deliver medicine so as not to destroy the medicinal properties.

Mung bean soup is to clear away heat, detoxify and defeat fire, and drinking more mung bean soup after suffering from a cold is good for relieving cold symptoms, so you can drink mung bean soup at any time, and even take medicine with mung bean soup.

It is best not to drink mung bean soup when taking medicine, mung beans have the effect of clearing heat and detoxifying, which will affect the drug**.

The anti-toxin effect of mung bean is due to the combination of mung bean protein and other components with organophosphorus and heavy metals to form precipitates. However, these detoxifying ingredients can also break down the efficacy of the drug, affecting**.

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 reduce or lose toxicity, and are not easily absorbed by the gastrointestinal tract.

Because mung beans are cold, it is not beneficial to people with spleen and stomach deficiency and body yang deficiency, such as chronic gastroenteritis, cold pain in limbs and joints, numbness, poor activity, abdominal pain, diarrhea, dysmenorrhea and other deficiency and cold diseases, mung beans should be fasted while taking traditional Chinese medicine. Otherwise, it will not only reduce the efficacy of traditional Chinese medicine, but also aggravate the condition.