In fact, mung bean itself is also a blind Chinese medicine, which has the effects of clearing away heat and toxic materials, relieving summer heat and promoting fluid production, promoting diuresis and reducing swelling. According to Compendium of Materia Medica, "Mung beans smell sweet and cold, and are non-toxic ..... which can cure all the poisons of herbs, horses, cattle and stones." This means that mung beans can detoxify gold, stone, arsenic and plants. Therefore, strictly speaking, mung beans can detoxify the toxicity in drugs and food, not the antidote. Folk also often use mung beans to cook soup to save drugs or food poisoning. So, can you eat mung beans when taking Chinese medicine?
This problem cannot be generalized, which is related to the types of diseases: for example, when suffering from heatstroke, sore throat, cough with expectoration of yellow phlegm, mumps, dry mouth, bitter taste, skin infection, urinary tract infection, constipation and other heat syndromes, taking mung bean soup (porridge) or mung bean cake while taking Chinese medicine can play a complementary role and achieve twice the result with half the effort. In addition, the detoxification function of mung bean is that mung bean protein, tannins and flavonoids in mung bean can combine with organophosphorus pesticides, mercury, arsenic and lead compounds to form a precipitate, which reduces or loses its toxicity and is not easily absorbed by gastrointestinal tract. Therefore, patients with pesticide poisoning can take mung bean soup or take it with raw mung bean powder while taking Chinese medicine to increase the curative effect. Because mung bean is cold, it is not beneficial to people with deficiency of spleen and stomach and yang deficiency. If they suffer from chronic gastroenteritis, cold pain in limbs and joints, numbness, poor activity, abdominal pain, diarrhea, dysmenorrhea and other deficiency cold symptoms, they should be fasted while taking traditional Chinese medicine. Otherwise, it will not only reduce the efficacy of traditional Chinese medicine, but also aggravate the condition.
Whether you can take mung bean when taking Chinese medicine is also related to the medicinal properties of the Chinese medicine: when taking heat-clearing Chinese medicines such as Coptidis Rhizoma, Scutellariae Radix, Cortex Phellodendri, Folium Isatidis, Radix Isatidis, Calculus Bovis, Flos Lonicerae, Gypsum Fibrosum, etc., you can take it together with mung bean and play a complementary role. When taking ginseng, astragalus, cinnamon, aconite, clove, galangal and cassia twig, dried ginger and asarum, do not take mung beans without a doctor's permission, so as not to reduce the efficacy and affect the therapeutic effect.
Therefore, whether you can eat mung beans at the same time after taking traditional Chinese medicine should be based on the cold and heat deficiency of the disease and the medicinal properties of taking traditional Chinese medicine, and you can't generalize. However, if you don't know the condition and the medicinal properties of the Chinese medicine, it is best not to take mung beans with Chinese medicine without the doctor's permission.