Every family often cooks mung bean soup during this season. Mung bean detoxification seems to be well known. According to Cao Yanhua, deputy chief nurse of the Naval Hospital, mung beans are not only food, but also traditional Chinese medicine. Traditional Chinese medicine believes that mung beans are cool in nature and sweet in taste, and have the effects of clearing away heat and detoxifying, relieving heat and irritability, quenching thirst and strengthening the stomach. From the perspective of dietary therapy, the natural properties of food such as warmth and coldness must be consistent with the physical condition of the eater in order to play a health care role.

However, the following types of people are not suitable for drinking:

1. People with cold constitution. For example, those who have symptoms such as cold limbs, abdominal distension, diarrhea and loose stools should not drink mung bean soup too frequently. Eating mung beans will aggravate the symptoms and even cause other diseases.

2. The elderly, children and people with weak constitution. Because mung beans contain more protein than chicken, large molecular proteins need to be converted into small molecular peptides and amino acids under the action of enzymes before they can be absorbed by the body. Such people have poor gastrointestinal digestive function, and it is difficult for them to digest mung bean protein in a short period of time, and they are prone to diarrhea due to indigestion.

3. People who are taking various drugs. The detoxification effect of mung beans comes from the combination of mung bean proteins and other components with organic phosphorus and heavy metals to form precipitates. However, these detoxifying ingredients can also break down the efficacy of the medicine and affect the treatment.

To avoid eating mung beans too cold, you don’t have to drink mung bean soup. You can choose another way of eating, that is, eat mung bean porridge. The method is to wash the rice and mung beans separately, add water to the pot and cook them into porridge. At the same time, if you want to use mung beans alone to boil sweet water for drinking, you must boil the mung beans to avoid eating them too cold, because the mung beans are the coldest when they are just boiled and bloomed.