Compendium of Materia Medica records: "Mung beans are sweet, cold and nontoxic ... they can cure all herbs and stones." This means that mung beans can detoxify gold, stone, arsenic and plants. So strictly speaking, mung beans can detoxify the toxicity in drugs and food, not the antidote. Folk also often use mung bean soup to save drugs or food poisoning.
Because mung bean is cold, it is not good for people with weak spleen and stomach and yang deficiency. If you suffer from deficiency-cold symptoms such as chronic gastroenteritis, cold pain in joints of limbs, numbness, poor activity, abdominal pain, diarrhea and dysmenorrhea, you should fast while taking traditional Chinese medicine. Otherwise, it will not only reduce the curative effect of traditional Chinese medicine, but also aggravate the condition.
Whether you can eat mung beans when eating Chinese medicine is also related to the medicinal properties of the Chinese medicine you eat: when eating heat-clearing Chinese medicine, such as Coptidis Rhizoma, Scutellariae Radix, Cortex Phellodendri, Folium Isatidis, Radix Isatidis, Calculus Bovis, Flos Lonicerae, Gypsum Fibrosum, etc. , can be taken together with mung beans to play a complementary role. When taking cinnamon, aconite, clove, galangal, cassia twig, dried ginger and asarum, do not take mung beans without the doctor's permission, so as not to reduce the efficacy and affect the therapeutic effect.
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