From the point of view of traditional Chinese medicine, mung beans are cold, and drinking after drinking is easy to harm the spleen and stomach. People with cold constitution have symptoms such as cold limbs, cold pain in waist and legs, diarrhea and loose stools, but eating mung beans will aggravate the symptoms and even cause digestive system diseases such as diarrhea, joint muscle pain caused by stagnation of qi and blood, stomach cold and chronic gastritis caused by weakness of spleen and stomach.
Detoxifying mung beans is included in the hangover, so in order to detoxify, it is best to boil mung beans when cooking mung bean soup. 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. Cooking summer-heat mung beans with other foods has better curative effect, such as mung bean and honeysuckle soup: mung bean100g, honeysuckle 30g, which can be taken by decoction. The seeds and decoctions of mung beans that promote metabolism contain alkaloids, coumarins, phytosterols and other physiologically active substances, which play an important role in promoting the physiological metabolism of human beings and animals.