Strictly speaking, the mung bean is to resolve the toxicity of drugs and food, rather than the antidote. Folk also commonly used mung bean soup to rescue drug or food poisoning. So, can you eat mung beans when taking Chinese medicine or not?

For this problem can not be generalized, which is related to the type of disease suffered: such as suffering from heat stroke, sore throat, cough and cough spit yellow phlegm, mumps, dry mouth, bitter mouth, skin infections, urinary tract infections, constipation and other heat syndrome, in the service of traditional Chinese medicine at the same time take mung bean soup (congee) or mung bean cake, etc., can play a complementary role, to achieve the effect of twice the result with half the effort. In addition, the mung bean detoxification effect, the mung bean in the mung bean protein, tannin and flavonoids can be combined with organophosphorus pesticides, mercury, arsenic, lead compounds to form a precipitate, so that it reduces or loses its toxicity, and is not easily absorbed by the gastrointestinal tract. Therefore, pesticide poisoning patients can take Chinese medicine at the same time take mung bean soup or raw mung bean powder to increase the efficacy. Because mung beans are cold, so the spleen and stomach cold, body Yang deficiency is not beneficial, such as suffering from chronic gastroenteritis, joints of the limbs cold pain, numbness, adverse activities, abdominal pain, diarrhea, dysmenorrhea and other deficiency of cold, in taking traditional Chinese medicine at the same time should be prohibited from eating mung beans. Otherwise, not only will reduce the efficacy of Chinese medicine, but also aggravate the condition.

Serving Chinese medicine can take mung beans, but also with the medicinal properties of Chinese medicine: in taking Huanglian, Scutellaria baicalensis, Huangbai, Dazhongye, Panlangen, Oxbridge, honeysuckle, gypsum and other heat-cleansing class of traditional Chinese medicine, and mung beans with the same service, can play a complementary role. When taking ginseng, astragalus, cinnamon, epimedium, cloves, galangal and other warm tonic drugs and Gui Zhi, dry ginger, fine Xin and other warm menstruation dispersal of cold class of Chinese medicine, without the permission of the doctor, do not take mung beans, so as not to reduce the efficacy of the drug, affecting the therapeutic effect.