| Health Science | Do you like to drink mung bean soup in summer?

Mung beans are traditional bean foods in my country. Mung beans contain a variety of vitamins, calcium, phosphorus, iron and other minerals. It not only has good edible value, but also has good medicinal value. Therefore, there is a saying of "the good valley of the world". In the hot summer, mung bean soup has become the favorite summer drink of ordinary people.

Drug value of mung beans

[Source] The dried seeds of the bean plant mung beans are a common medicinal material.

【Different name】 Qing Xiaodou

[Sexual taste] sweet, cold.

[Gui Jing] Guixin and stomach meridians.

[Function and Indications] Clear heat and detoxify, eliminate heat and annoyance, quench thirst and healthy stomach, and benefit water and swelling. It is often used for some skin problems such as sores and bloating, and it is also the heat from the heat when the heat is hot during the summer heat season.

[Applicable crowds] Surge, thirst, hypertension, edema, edema, damp -heat and poisonous fire, acne, rash, abscess, rubella, and various types of skin inflammation, bloated sores.

[Precautions] For those who have yang deficiency, spleen and stomach deficiency, and diarrhea should not be eaten.

Mung beans to eat

Mung beans do not bloom and resolve the heat

Mung bean heat is skin, and Chinese medicine is also called "mung bean clothing". That is, the shorter the mung bean cooks, the higher the content of the polyphenols in mung bean clothes. The higher the antioxidant activity, the better the heat of the heat. For example, "Zunsheng Babu" cloud: "Mung beans are clean, add water to the pot, roll over the fire, take the soup to stop the cold and blue food.

Method: 50 grams of mung beans, right amount of rock sugar. Wash the mung beans, put it in the pot, add an appropriate amount of water, boil it on high heat, add rock sugar, and cook for 10 minutes.

Mung bean flowers are more detoxifying

Mung bean protein content is three times that of rice, and it is also rich in tannin and flavonoids. These effective ingredients can form precipitate with organic phosphorus pesticides, mercury, arsenic, lead, etc., which reduces or lost toxicity, and is not easy to be absorbed by the gastrointestinal tract, which has the effect of detoxifying. And boiled mung beans can play a more fully role.

1. Lazy flower flowering method: Wash the mung beans soak in water for 2 hours, pour it into the pot, the ratio of mung beans to water is 1:10. After the high heat is boiled, change it to a low heat. After the mung bean blooms, turn off the heat, put the cooked mung bean soup into the bowl, add an appropriate amount of sugar to eat.

2. Quick flowering method: Wash the mung beans and soak in boiling water for 10 minutes. After cooling, put the mung beans in the freezer of the refrigerator, freeze it for 4 hours, remove it and cook, and the mung beans quickly bloom.

Mung bean soup can also be paired with some other ingredients

1. Mung bean lily soup: 20 grams each of mung beans and lily, 100 grams of rice. Wash the mung beans, place it in a cooking pot, pour in an appropriate amount of water, and cook over medium heat for 30 minutes until the bean skin is cracking. Wash the rice and lily, put it in the pot, and continue to cook for 30 minutes until porridge. It can play a role in clearing the heart and calming the lungs.

2. Mung bean pumpkin soup: Wash the mung beans with water, peel the pumpkin, wash it with water, and cut into a 2 cm square block for use. Add 500 ml of water to the pot. After boiling, first boil the mung beans and boil for 2 minutes, pour a little cold water, boil, put the pumpkin into the pot, and boil it with a text heat for about 30 minutes until the mung bean blooms. It can play the role of clearing heat and relieving the heat and replenishing qi.

In addition, mung beans can also be cooked with ingredients such as winter melon, lotus root, barley kernels.

Is everyone suitable for drinking mung bean soup?

Although mung bean soup is good, some people are not suitable for drinking.

People with cold constitutions drinking mung bean soup can increase symptoms such as weak limbs, cold pain, gastrointestinal discomfort or abdominal pain, diarrhea and other symptoms. The elderly, children, people with weak constitution, and people with poor gastrointestinal function can easily increase the burden on the body and stomach, and drink too much diarrhea due to indigestion. People who are taking warm supplements should not drink mung bean soup to avoid reducing the efficacy. In addition, the empty stomach and excessive drinking mung bean soup can cause gastrointestinal discomfort.

Although the mung bean soup is delicious, it is not suitable for everyone ~

Source: Xi'an Traditional Chinese Medicine Hospital

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