Many places are accustomed to cooking mung bean soup in summer. It is said that mung bean soup can reduce internal heat and has the effect of clearing away heat and preventing heatstroke.

Speaking of fire, people usually refer to heat and fever. With this kind of fire, the human body consumes more water, often experiencing dry mouth, red urine, and dry stools. There is also a kind of fire, usually called upper fire, because it is red and swollen somewhere in a person's body, feels painful, and is difficult to handle. For example, the eyes are red, painful, afraid of light, etc. It causes eye irritation, throat redness and swelling, and throat irritation when speaking and swallowing are difficult. There are some serious fire diseases, which can be described as inflammation in Western medicine.

Mung beans are refreshing in nature. According to experience, it does have the effect of clearing away heat and detoxifying.

Mung beans also contain a variety of vitamins and are rich in protein, which can nourish the body. You’ve experienced all of the fires mentioned above, especially when you’re hot. If you drink a bowl of mung bean soup, the light version can reduce inflammation, and the thick soup can relieve symptoms. Therefore, it makes sense that people often use mung bean soup as a refreshing drink in the summer. They also use mung bean soup to cool down the heat when they stay up late and get angry. However, the fire-reducing effect of mung bean soup is limited. It is generally suitable for reducing fire when heated and has little effect on inflammation.

There are many drugs that can clear away heat, reduce fire and detoxify. Chrysanthemum, honeysuckle, light bamboo leaves, mint, etc. are all commonly used drugs. These drugs have the effect of clearing away heat and detoxifying. When people are suffering from fire, whether it is hot or scorching fire, it is generally beneficial to make soup with these medicines. For mild cases, it can reduce fire and reduce inflammation. Of course, these remedies should be applied with some scope. People say that the scope of fire disease is very wide, and different fire disease medicines cannot be exactly the same. Drugs can only play a greater role if they are symptomatic. From this point of view, it is best to have the guidance of a doctor or an experienced person when using these drugs.

People with weak constitution cannot drink mung bean soup every day. Blindly drinking mung bean soup can cause diarrhea or decreased immunity of the digestive system. Although mung beans have the effects of relieving heat and replenishing qi, clearing away heat and detoxifying, moistening the throat and quenching thirst, there are also some taboos. People with cold limbs and weak constitution in winter should not drink mung bean soup, especially when the temperature is lower than normal. If they really like it, they should not drink mung bean soup more than twice a week. From a traditional Chinese medicine perspective, patients with cold syndrome should not drink too much alcohol. And those who take Chinese medicine to treat winter diseases in summer should not drink too much.