Mung bean, also called green adzuki bean, is a traditional bean food of our people. The protein content of mung bean is almost three times that of japonica rice, and there are more inorganic salts such as vitamins, calcium, phosphorus and iron than japonica rice. Therefore, it not only has good edible value, but also has very good medicinal value, and is called "the food of the world". In hot summer, mung bean soup is the favorite summer drink of ordinary people. Efficacy: Mung bean tastes sweet and cool, and has the function of clearing away heat and toxic materials. People who work in high temperature environment in summer sweat a lot, and the electrolyte balance in the body is destroyed. Supplementing with mung bean soup is the most ideal method, which can clear away heat and relieve summer heat, replenish qi to quench thirst, induce diuresis, not only replenish water, but also replenish inorganic salts in time, which is of great significance to maintaining water-liquid electrolyte balance. Mung beans also have detoxification effect. In case of organophosphorus pesticide poisoning, lead poisoning, alcoholism (drunkenness) or taking the wrong medicine, you can first fill a bowl of mung bean soup for emergency treatment and then send it to the hospital for emergency treatment. People who often work in a toxic environment or come into contact with toxic substances should often eat mung beans to detoxify and protect their health. Regular consumption of mung beans can supplement nutrition and enhance physical strength.
Suitable for people: suitable for all ages and all seasons.
Usage: 40 grams each time.
skill
Mung beans should not be overcooked, so as not to destroy organic acids and vitamins and reduce the effect of clearing away heat and toxic materials. Mung beans are cool and people with weak spleen and stomach should not eat more. Don't eat mung bean food when taking medicine, especially warm tonic, so as not to reduce the efficacy. Uncooked mung beans have a strong smell, which makes them prone to nausea and vomiting after eating.
Summer health care products
Mung bean Mung bean, also called green adzuki bean, is named after its green color and has been cultivated in China for more than two thousand years. Because of its rich nutrition and many uses, Li Shizhen calls it "the best dish".
Mung bean is the top grade in summer diet, and its higher value is medicinal. In the hot summer, people drink mung bean porridge, which is sweet and delicious, and can prevent heatstroke and summer heat. The children got prickly heat because of the hot weather. It is best to take mung beans and fresh lotus seeds. If you use mung beans, red beans and black beans to cook soup, you can not only treat children's summer indigestion, but also treat children's skin diseases and measles. Eating mung beans often has a good therapeutic auxiliary effect on hypertension, arteriosclerosis, diabetes and nephritis. In addition, mung beans can also be used as external medicine, chewed and applied externally to treat sores and skin eczema. If you have acne, you can grind mung beans into fine powder, cook them into paste, wash the affected area before going to bed and apply them to the affected area. "Mung bean coat" can clear away heat and toxic materials, and also has the functions of reducing swelling, resolving phlegm and improving eyesight.
Mung beans have the function of relieving itching, and mung beans are specially used to treat heat itching. Because heat itching is caused by fever in the body, and mung bean has antipyretic effect, it is suitable for treating heat itching.
Just add water to mung beans, soak them until they are slightly rotten, and drink mung bean water.
In addition, some cool vegetables, such as mint, are very effective for skin itching caused by wind and heat. Mint can be used for external use or soaked in water.
Mung bean, also known as adzuki bean, is a mature seed of leguminous herb mung bean. It has been cultivated in China for more than 2,000 years, and has been planted as a food crop in various places. Because of its rich nutrition, it can be used as bean porridge, bean rice, bean wine, * food,? ? Eating, or making cakes as bait, or cooking in MengMeng, is known as "the best food, saving the world." It is recorded in "Kaibao Materia Medica": "Mung beans are sweet, cold and nontoxic. Entering heart meridian and stomach meridian. Erysipelas mainly annoys heat, rubella, hot air flushes dolphins, grinds raw juice, cooks food, reduces swelling and relieves qi, and detoxifies according to heat. " Later generations of materia medica have expounded the medicinal effects of mung beans. "Compendium of Materia Medica" said: "Mung beans, although the effect of detumescence and acne treatment is the same as that of red beans, are too strong to detoxify by pressing heat. Moreover, there is no taboo for replenishing qi, invigorating stomach and dredging meridians for a long time. Surgical treatment of carbuncle, combined with oral administration of Baoxin powder, is extremely effective. " And it can "remove stone, arsenic and plant poison." "Seeking Truth from Materia Medica" said: "Mung beans are sweet in taste and cold in nature. According to the book, they are excellent. They can thicken the stomach, moisten the skin, harmonize the five internal organs and nourish the spleen and stomach. Accordingly, it is not too much to use ginseng, qi, GUI and Shu. Those who are said to be rich, harmonious and rich are all caused by evil spirits. The internal organs, meridians, skin, spleen and stomach are not disturbed by poison, and they are good at detoxification, so everything works without this. " Throughout all kinds of materia medica, mung beans are highly regarded for their medicinal effects such as clearing away heat and relieving summer heat, detoxifying and diuresis. In recent decades, people have studied mung beans in many aspects with the help of modern science and technology, and their pharmacological research is summarized as follows:
pharmacological action
1. Antibacterial and bacteriostatic effects
Mung beans have antibacterial and bacteriostatic effects. ① Some components in mung bean have direct bacteriostatic effect. The bacteriostatic test confirmed that the extract of mung bean coat had inhibitory effect on staphylococcus. According to related research, tannin contained in mung bean can coagulate microbial protoplasm and produce antibacterial activity. Bioactive substances such as flavonoids and phytosterols in mung beans may also have certain antibacterial and antiviral effects. (2) indirectly exert antibacterial effect by improving immune function. Mung bean contains coumarin, alkaloids, phytosterols, saponins and other bioactive substances, which can enhance the immune function of the body and increase the number of phagocytic cells or phagocytic function. In some experiments, the effect of mung bean on erythrocyte immune adhesion function in normal and cyclophosphamide-induced immunocompromised mice was detected by complement sensitized yeast hemagglutination method. The results showed that mung bean had inhibitory effect on immunocompromised mice induced by cyclophosphamide
2. Hypolipidemic effect
Some people feed rabbits with 70% mung bean powder or germinated mung bean powder. The results show that it can prevent the increase of blood lipid (total cholesterol and β-lipoprotein) in experimental hyperlipidemia rabbits, and then obviously alleviate coronary heart disease; Some people mixed the water extract and alcohol extract of mung bean in feed and fed them to animals for 7 days, which proved that it could obviously reduce the serum cholesterol of normal mice (crude drug 100g/kg d- 1) and normal rats (crude drug 16g/kg d- 1). Further research found that the structure of phytosterol contained in mung bean is similar to cholesterol, and phytosterol competes with cholesterol for esterifying enzyme, which makes it impossible to esterify, reduces the absorption of cholesterol in intestine, and can reduce the serum cholesterol content by promoting cholesterol alienation and/or preventing liver cholesterol biosynthesis. In addition, soybean globulin has been proved to have the effect of lowering serum cholesterol, and whether mung bean globulin has the same effect is worth discussing.
3. Antitumor effect
Some experiments have found that mung beans have a certain preventive effect on lung cancer and liver cancer induced by morphine and sodium nitrite in mice. Another experiment confirmed that phenylalanine ammonia-lyase extracted from mung bean had obvious inhibitory effect on mouse leukemia L 1 2 1 cells and human leukemia K 56 2 cells, and the inhibitory effect was obviously enhanced with the increase of enzyme dosage and the extension of action time. After the same treatment for 48 hours, the inhibition rates of 0.7 U/mL enzyme were 52% and 14. 1%, respectively. When the enzyme was increased to 3.5U/ml, it could reach 77. 1% and 85.8% respectively, while the inhibition rates of 0.2 0%, 1.0%, 2.0%, 4.0%, 6.0% and 1.0% were 25 respectively.
Step 4 detoxify
Mung beans are rich in protein, and raw green soybean milk soaked in raw mung beans has a high protein content, which can protect gastrointestinal mucosa if taken orally. Mung bean protein, tannins and flavonoids can combine with organophosphorus pesticides, mercury, arsenic and lead compounds to form a precipitate, which reduces or loses toxicity and is not easily absorbed by the gastrointestinal tract. Many bioactive substances in mung beans have antioxidant effects, and whether antioxidant effects can reduce the cytotoxicity and genotoxicity of organophosphorus pesticides in the treatment of organophosphorus pesticide poisoning needs further discussion.
5. Others
Sweating at high temperature will make the body lose a lot of minerals and vitamins, leading to internal environment disorder. Mung beans are rich in inorganic salts and vitamins. Drinking mung bean soup in high temperature environment can replenish the lost nutrients in time and achieve the therapeutic effect of clearing away heat and relieving summer heat.
Phosphatidylcholine, phosphatidylethanolamine, phosphatidylinositol, phosphatidylglycerol, phosphatidylserine and phosphatidic acid in mung bean phospholipids can stimulate appetite.
Mung bean starch contains a considerable amount of oligosaccharides (pentosan, galactan, etc. These oligosaccharides are difficult to be digested and absorbed because there is no corresponding hydrolase system in the gastrointestinal tract of human body, so the energy provided by mung beans is lower than that of other grains, which has an auxiliary therapeutic effect on obese and diabetic patients. Moreover, oligosaccharides are the proliferation factors of Bifidobacterium, a beneficial bacteria in human intestine. Regular consumption of mung beans can improve intestinal flora, reduce the absorption of harmful substances and prevent some cancers.
Mung bean is also a good raw material for extracting SOD from plants. After chemical modification, SOD oral liquid made of mung bean will not be destroyed by gastric acid and pepsin, and its half-life will be prolonged, which is suitable for oral absorption by human body. Besides SOD, the oral liquid is rich in amino acids, β-carotene and trace elements, and has good anti-aging effect. In addition, experiments have proved that tannins in mung beans not only have antibacterial activity, but also have the effects of local hemostasis and promoting wound repair, so they have certain therapeutic effects on various burns.
CoCo Lee, "Overview of Studies on Chemical Constituents and Pharmacological Effects of Mung Bean", Shanghai Journal of Traditional Chinese Medicine 200 1.5 47-49.
The chemical components of mung bean are protein, fat, carbohydrate, vitamin B 1, B2, carotene, nicotinic acid, folic acid and minerals calcium, phosphorus and iron. Protein is mainly globulin, rich in lysine, leucine and threonine, and less in methionine, tryptophan and tyrosine. If you cook porridge with millet, you can improve the nutritional value. Mung bean skin contains 2 1 inorganic elements, with the highest phosphorus content. And vitexin, β -sitosterol Every100g of mung bean contains protein 22. 1 g, fat 0.8g, carbohydrate 59g, and calorific value 332kcal.
The pharmacological effects of mung bean include reducing blood fat, cholesterol, anti-allergy, anti-bacteria, anti-tumor, stimulating appetite and protecting liver and kidney.
Mung bean powder has obvious lipid-lowering effect. Mung bean contains a globulin and polysaccharide, which can promote the decomposition of cholesterol in animals into cholic acid in the liver, accelerate the secretion of bile salts in bile and reduce the absorption of cholesterol in the small intestine.
The effective components of mung bean have antiallergic effect and can be used to treat allergic reactions such as urticaria. Mung bean has inhibitory effect on staphylococcus. Protein and phospholipids contained in mung beans can excite nerves and stimulate appetite. Mung bean is rich in a single inhibitor of pancreatic protein, which can protect the liver and reduce protein decomposition and azotemia, thus protecting the kidney.
In the process of mung bean germination, phytic acid is degraded by the action of unit elements, releasing more minerals such as phosphorus and zinc, which can be fully utilized by human body. When mung beans germinate, the carotene content will increase by two to three times, B2 by two to four times, nicotinic acid by more than two times, folic acid by several times and B 12 by ten times. Americans appreciate mung bean sprouts very much and think that mung bean sprouts are one of the best foods for obese people. They are easy to fill their stomachs and are not fat.
food therapy
Dietary mung beans, decocted in water, 15 to 30g; Ground or raw ground fruit juice.
Mung beans are cool and detoxifying, especially suitable for people with heat constitution and easy to get sores. Mung beans are cold and people with weak spleen and stomach should not eat more. People with chronic gastroenteritis's disease, chronic hepatitis and hypothyroidism should avoid eating more mung beans.
It comes from mung bean, a leguminous plant kidney bean, which is used as medicine with seeds.
Sweet and cold in nature. Entering heart meridian and stomach meridian.
Function: clearing away heat and toxic materials, relieving summer heat. It can be used for treating summer heat, polydipsia, sores and carbuncle. It can detoxify aconite and croton.
Usage and dosage: 0.5 ~ 1 two, with a large dose of 4 two, and decocted.
Remarks: (1) The solution of aconite croton poison can be four ounces of mung beans and two ounces of raw licorice. The decoction is cold, so you should drink it frequently.
Excerpted from the National Collection of Chinese Herbal Medicine
Why do mung beans turn black after being cooked in an iron pot?
Mung beans will turn black after being burned in an iron pot; After apples and pears are cut with iron knives, their surfaces will also turn black. This is because the cells of mung beans, apples, pears and various fruits all contain tannic acid, which can react with iron to produce black iron tannic acid. When mung beans are cooked in an iron pot, they will produce some black iron tannins, so they will turn black. Sometimes, pears and persimmons will have some black spots on their skins even if they are not cut with an iron knife. This is because tannic acid molecules contain many phenolic hydrocarbon groups, which are very sensitive to light and are easily oxidized by oxygen in the air and become black oxides.