Do you know the efficacy, functions and taboos of mung beans? As a common bean food in our daily health, mung bean has a high therapeutic effect, but few people know its efficacy and function, and what are the taboos for daily consumption. Today, Bian Xiao will introduce you to the common sense about mung beans. Friends who pay attention to diet and health care must see it. The efficacy and function of mung bean is 1. Mung beans are sweet and cool, and have the effects of clearing away heat and toxic materials, relieving summer heat and benefiting water. 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. 2, the detoxification effect of mung beans. 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. 3, since the "Kaibao Materia Medica" records: "Mung beans, sweet, cold, non-toxic. 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. " The herbal medicines of later generations all 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." 4, "Materia Medica Seeking Truth" said: "Mung beans are sweet and cold. According to the book, they are excellent. They can thicken the stomach, moisturize the skin and nourish the five internal organs and 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. " (three readings) 5. 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. 6. The active ingredient of mung bean has antiallergic effect and can be used as adjuvant 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 trypsin inhibitor, which can protect the liver and reduce protein decomposition and azotemia, thus protecting the kidney. Eating contraindications of mung beans Mung beans have the functions of relieving summer heat, benefiting qi, clearing away heat and toxic materials, moistening throat and quenching thirst, but there are also some contraindications. People with cold limbs and weak constitution in winter should not drink more mung bean soup, especially when it is below normal temperature. They really like it, and they shouldn't drink it more than twice a week. From the perspective of traditional Chinese medicine, patients with cold syndrome should not drink too much. 1, people with cold constitution should not eat food with cold limbs, abdominal distension, diarrhea, loose stool and other symptoms, and should not drink mung bean soup too much. Eating mung beans will aggravate symptoms and cause other diseases. 2. Old people, children and people with weak constitution should not eat it, because the content of protein in mung beans is more than that of chicken. Macromolecule protein needs to be converted into small peptides and amino acids under the action of enzymes before it can be absorbed by human body. This kind of people have poor gastrointestinal digestive function, it is difficult to digest mung bean protein in a short time, and it is easy to cause diarrhea due to indigestion. 3. People who are taking various drugs should not eat the detoxification components of mung beans, which will decompose the efficacy and affect the treatment. Nutrition experts suggest that you can choose to drink mung bean porridge to avoid mung bean being too cold. Sanlian editor