Because mung beans have the effects of clearing away heat and toxic materials, relieving summer heat and vexation, invigorating stomach and quenching thirst, promoting diuresis and reducing swelling. For exogenous wind-heat, carbuncle, erysipelas, summer heat invasion and other heat diseases, such as heatstroke, sore throat, acute parotitis, dry mouth, bitter taste, urinary system infection and other heat syndromes, drinking mung bean soup (150 ml) while taking Chinese medicine can play a complementary role and promote the improvement of the disease.
In addition, whether you can drink mung bean soup is also related to the medicinal properties of the Chinese medicines you take: for example, you can drink mung bean soup (100 ml) when taking heat-clearing Chinese medicines such as honeysuckle, coptis root, scutellaria root, phellodendron bark and isatis root, which can also play a complementary role.
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Precautions for drinking mung bean soup? ：
1, don't use iron pot to cook mung bean soup?
When cooking mung bean soup, it is most inappropriate to use an iron pot. Most of the active ingredients of mung bean are in the skin of mung bean. After the flavonoids and metal ions in the skin of mung bean act, it may form a dark complex, which will make the color of mung bean soup black, which will cause gastrointestinal discomfort and indigestion after eating. Therefore, casserole is the most ideal for cooking mung bean soup. ?
2. Don't add alkali when cooking mung bean soup?
Mung beans are rich in vitamin B, which is an important part of the summer-heat relieving characteristics of mung beans and can make up for the nutritional loss when sweating. And alkali can seriously destroy vitamin B. At the same time, the flavonoid antioxidant components in mung beans will also be lost due to the addition of alkali, resulting in structural changes and yellow color. Therefore, it is best not to add alkali to the mung bean soup. If you want to make the soup sticky, consider adding a small amount of oatmeal or glutinous rice to "thicken". ?
3, mung bean soup can not be drunk every day?
It is no problem to drink mung bean soup properly. Generally, adults can drink it two or three times a week, one bowl at a time. Young children should be specific according to their physique, so it is best to consult a doctor first, because the content of protein in mung beans is more than that in chicken, and the macromolecular protein needs to be converted into small peptides and amino acids under the action of enzymes before it can be absorbed by the human body.
Children's gastrointestinal digestive function is relatively poor, it is difficult to digest mung bean protein in a short time, and it is easy to cause diarrhea due to indigestion. Generally speaking, when children start eating porridge at the age of 2 to 3, they can add some mung beans in moderation. After the age of 6, you can drink adult quantity.
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