Whether you can eat mung bean cake during drinking Chinese medicine can't be generalized, it depends on what Chinese medicine you eat, and mung bean cake has a certain detoxification effect.

In fact, mung bean itself is also a blind Chinese medicine, which has the effects of clearing away heat and toxic materials, relieving summer heat and promoting fluid production, promoting diuresis and reducing swelling. According to "Compendium of Materia Medica", mung bean smells sweet and cold, and it is non-toxic to all herbs and stones. This means that mung beans can detoxify gold, stone, arsenic and plants. Therefore, 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.

This problem cannot be generalized, which is related to the types of diseases: for example, when suffering from heatstroke, sore throat, cough with expectoration of yellow phlegm, mumps, dry mouth, bitter taste, skin infection, urinary system infection, constipation and other heat syndromes, 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.

Whether you can take mung bean when taking Chinese medicine is also related to the medicinal properties of the Chinese medicine: when taking heat-clearing Chinese medicines such as Coptidis Rhizoma, Scutellariae Radix, Cortex Phellodendri, Folium Isatidis, Radix Isatidis, Calculus Bovis, Flos Lonicerae, Gypsum Fibrosum, etc., you can take it with mung bean and play a complementary role. When taking ginseng, astragalus, cinnamon, aconite, clove, galangal and cassia twig, dried ginger and asarum, do not take mung beans without a doctor's permission, so as not to reduce the efficacy and affect the therapeutic effect.

Because mung bean is cold, it is not beneficial to people with deficiency of spleen and stomach and yang deficiency. If they suffer from chronic gastroenteritis, cold pain in limbs and joints, numbness, poor activity, abdominal pain, diarrhea, dysmenorrhea and other deficiency cold symptoms, they 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.

Taboos for taking traditional Chinese medicine

Avoid radish

It is not advisable to eat raw radish when taking traditional Chinese medicine (except taking drugs for regulating qi and resolving phlegm), because radish has the effects of promoting digestion and breaking qi, especially when taking nourishing traditional Chinese medicine such as ginseng and astragalus, eating radish will weaken the tonic effect of ginseng and others, reduce the efficacy and fail to achieve the therapeutic purpose.

Avoid cold

Cold food is cold and hard to digest. Cold foods are also easy to stimulate the gastrointestinal tract and affect the absorption of drugs by the gastrointestinal tract. What taboo foods are there when eating traditional Chinese medicine? Therefore, in the treatment of "cold syndrome", taking traditional Chinese medicine such as warming meridians and dredging collaterals, dispelling cold and expelling dampness, or invigorating spleen and warming stomach, it is necessary to avoid raw cold food.