Mung bean soup antidote?
In fact, the mung bean itself is also a flavor of traditional Chinese medicine, there are heat detoxification, summer heat, water and eliminate the efficacy of swelling. According to the "Compendium of Materia Medica" records: "mung beans smell sweet and cold, non-toxic ...... to solve all medicinal herbs, cattle and horses, gold and stone poison." Means that mung beans can solve the medicine in the gold, stone, arsenic, grass and trees all poison, therefore, strictly speaking, mung beans is to solve the toxicity of drugs and food, rather than antidote. Folk also commonly used mung bean soup to rescue drug or food poisoning. So, when taking Chinese medicine in the end can not eat green beans? For this problem can not be generalized, which is related to the type of disease suffered: such as suffering from heat stroke, sore throat, cough and cough spit yellow phlegm, mumps, dry mouth, bitter mouth, skin infections, urinary tract infections, constipation and other heat syndrome, in the service at the same time as taking traditional Chinese medicine, taking mung bean soup (congee) or mung bean cake, etc., can play a complementary role, to achieve twice the result with half the effort. In addition, mung beans have the effect of detoxification, mung beans in the mung bean protein, tannin and flavonoids can be combined with organophosphorus pesticides, mercury, arsenic, lead compounds to form a precipitate, so that it reduces or loses its toxicity and is not easy to be absorbed by the gastrointestinal tract, so pesticide poisoning patients taking traditional Chinese medicine at the same time you can take mung bean soup or powdered raw mung beans to increase the effectiveness of the treatment. Because mung beans are cold, so the spleen and stomach cold, body Yang deficiency is not beneficial, such as suffering from chronic gastroenteritis, joints of the limbs cold pain, numbness, adverse activities, abdominal pain, diarrhea, menstrual cramps and other deficiency of cold, in the taking of traditional Chinese medicine treatment at the same time should be prohibited from eating mung beans. Otherwise, it will not only reduce the efficacy of Chinese medicine, but also aggravate the condition. Whether you can take mung beans, but also with the medicinal properties of the Chinese medicine: in taking Huanglian, Scutellaria baicalensis, Huangbai, Daxing Ye, Banlanggen, oxalis, honeysuckle, gypsum and other heat-clearing class of traditional Chinese medicine, can be with mung beans with the service, can play a complementary role. In taking ginseng, astragalus, cinnamon, epimedium, cloves, galangal and other warm tonic drugs and cinnamon sticks, dry ginger, fine Xin and other warm meridian dispersal of cold class of traditional Chinese medicine, without the permission of the doctor, do not take mung beans, so as not to reduce the effectiveness of the drug, affecting the therapeutic effect. Therefore, the Chinese medicine can eat mung beans at the same time, should be based on the disease of cold and heat and take the medicinal properties of Chinese medicine, can not be generalized.