Mung beans are cool and sweet. Drinking them at ordinary times can relieve summer heat and quench thirst. Because of its diuretic effect, drinking food or drugs after poisoning can also remove toxins from the body, and it also has a certain curative effect on heat swelling, heat thirst, heat dysentery, carbuncle, pox poison, macula and so on.
Effect of mung bean soup:
1, detoxification: the heat-clearing power of mung beans lies in the skin, including detoxification. Therefore, if you just want to cool off the summer heat, wash the mung beans when cooking soup, and boil them with high fire for about 10 minutes. Be careful not to cook them for a long time. The soup cooked in this way is green and clear. There is no need to eat beans together when drinking, so you can achieve a good summer effect. If it's to clear away heat and detoxify, it's best to boil the beans. This kind of mung bean soup is turbid in color, which has a poor effect of relieving summer heat, but has a stronger effect of clearing heat and detoxifying.
2, anti-heatstroke: mung beans and other foods are cooked together, and the curative effect is better. For example, to prevent heatstroke, you can drink mung bean honeysuckle soup: mung beans 100 grams, honeysuckle 30 grams, and take it with water.
Mung bean is rich in nutrients and is a kind of bean with high economic and nutritional value. Grain per100g contains protein 22% ~ 25%, fat1.2% ~ 2%, carbohydrate 58% ~ 60%, crude fiber 4.2%, calcium 49 mg, phosphorus 268 mg, iron 3.2 mg, carotene 0.22 mg and riboflavin 0. The protein content of mung bean is 2.3 times that of wheat flour, 2.7 times that of millet, 3 times that of corn flour, 3.2 times that of rice and 4.6 times that of sweet potato flour. Straw contains protein16.2% and crude fat10.9%, which are higher than corn stems and leaves, so it is a good feed for livestock. Mung bean is high in protein, medium in starch and low in fat, and is homologous to medicine and food. Mung bean has good palatability, easy digestion and simple processing technology. It is a favorite raw material for food and wine making, and is known as "green pearl".
Mung beans are heat-clearing and detoxicating drugs, which have pharmacological effects such as anti-inflammation, sterilization and phagocytosis promotion. Its seeds and decoction contain alkaloids, coumarins, phytosterols and other physiologically active substances, which play an important role in promoting the physiological and metabolic activities of human beings and animals. Chinese medicine believes that mung beans, bean skins, bean sprouts, bean leaves and flowers can all be used as medicine. Mung beans are sweet and cold in nature and enter the heart and lungs. Oral administration has the effects of clearing away heat and toxic materials, removing summer heat and promoting diuresis, resisting inflammation and swelling, protecting liver, improving eyesight, stopping diarrhea, moistening skin, lowering blood pressure and cholesterol in blood, and preventing atherosclerosis; and external application can treat trauma, burn, furuncle and carbuncle.
Some people should not drink more mung bean soup.
Summer heat is prevalent, and mung bean soup is a traditional Chinese folk remedy for summer heat. Chinese medicine believes that mung bean has the effects of relieving summer heat and benefiting qi, clearing away heat and toxic materials, moistening throat and quenching thirst, and can prevent heatstroke and treat food poisoning.
Modern medical research also believes that mung beans have higher nutritional value, with more protein content, 7 times of calcium, 4.5 times of iron and more phosphorus than chicken. These are important for promoting and maintaining the life development and various physiological functions of the body.
Have a definite role. Relevant experiments also show that mung beans may have obvious effects on treating atherosclerosis, reducing cholesterol in blood and protecting liver.
However, nutritionists remind people that although most people can safely drink mung bean soup, there are not many taboos, but people with weak constitution should not drink too much. From the perspective of Chinese medicine, people with cold syndrome should not drink too much. Because mung beans have the effect of detoxification, people who are taking Chinese medicine should not drink too much.