Fava bean disease is a disease caused by glucose 6-phosphate dehydrogenase (G-6-PD) deficiency, manifested as acute intravascular hemolysis that occurs suddenly after consumption of fresh fava beans in the presence of hereditary glucose-6-phosphate dehydrogenase (G-6-PD) deficiency. For patients with fava bean disease, there are strict contraindications to taking medication: medication under the guidance of a doctor, it is not advisable to take oxidizing drugs, such as primaquine, sulfonamides, furans, vitamins K3, K4, finasteride, aminopyrine, sulfone, and other drugs and traditional Chinese medicines such as end of pearl, Lapis lazuli, Chuanlian, and so on.

The contraindications of drugs for patients with serous bean disease do not contain astragalus, antifungal, atractylodes macrocephala, and over the years there have been traditional Chinese medicine practitioners who have used astragalus (or atractylodes macrocephala), through the addition of subtraction of the formula, the identification of the treatment of serous bean disease, and there have been no reports of adverse reactions. Therefore, patients suffering from fava bean disease can take Yupingfeng Granules, which has no effect on their disease and can be taken safely.