Effects: clearing heat and detoxification, preventing heatstroke conditioning, diuretic conditioning.

Mung beans taste sweet, cool, into the heart, stomach meridian; has a heat detoxification, eliminate summer heat in addition to the annoyance, quench the thirst of the stomach, diuretic effect of swelling; the main treatment of summer heat and thirst, damp heat and diarrhea, edema and abdominal distension, sores and swollen poisons, poisonous boils, mumps, pox rashes, as well as gold and stone arsenic and grass poisoned people.

The pharmacological effects of mung beans are lipid-lowering, cholesterol-lowering, anti-allergic, antibacterial, anti-tumor, appetite, liver and kidney. Mung bean powder has a significant lipid-lowering effect, mung bean contains a globulin and polysaccharide, can promote the animal body cholesterol in the liver decomposition into bile acid, accelerate the bile in the bile bile salt secretion and reduce the absorption of cholesterol in the small intestine.

The active ingredients of mung beans have anti-allergic effects and can assist in the treatment of hives and other allergic reactions. Mung beans have an inhibitory effect on staphylococcus. Mung beans contain protein, phospholipids are excitatory nerve, appetite function. Mung beans are rich in trypsin inhibitors, can protect the liver, reduce protein decomposition, reduce azotemia, and therefore protect the kidneys.

Expanded Information:

It is not suitable to eat mung beans

One category is belong to the cold body of people, such as cold limbs and fatigue, cold pain in the waist and legs, diarrhea and dilution, etc., eat mung beans instead of aggravate the problem. The first is to eat mung beans, but it will aggravate the symptoms, and even cause other diseases.

The second category is the elderly, children and weak people. Because the protein content of mung beans is more than chicken, large molecules of protein need to be converted into small molecules of peptides and amino acids under the action of enzymes to be absorbed by the body. These people's gastrointestinal digestion is poor, it is difficult to digest mung bean protein in a short period of time, easy to cause diarrhea due to indigestion.

The third category is taking all kinds of drugs. Because the mung bean has a detoxification effect, therefore, the patient is taking the drug, whether it is traditional Chinese medicine or Western medicine, if it contains organic phosphorus, calcium, potassium and other ingredients, mung bean will be combined with these ingredients into a precipitate, which breaks down the efficacy of the drug, affecting the treatment.

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