Among beans, mung beans are very popular with people. It has a long planting history and is one of the traditional crops in China. It is widely used as medicine and food. It is not only a good food for regulating diet, but also an important raw material for food industry and a good medicine for preventing and treating diseases. At present, the main drugs are mung bean and mung bean coat. Mung bean is the dried seed of leguminous mung bean, and mung bean coat is the seed coat of leguminous mung bean.
Mung beans are sweet and cold, and are often used to relieve summer heat and stimulate appetite.
Mung beans are named for their blue-green color. When seeds mature in autumn, they are harvested, washed, dried, crushed or ground for use as medicine. Sweet, cold and non-toxic, it enters the heart and stomach. It has the effects of relieving summer heat, stimulating appetite, clearing away heat and toxic materials, and relieving restlessness and swelling. It is often used to treat carbuncle, sore poison, herbal poisoning, food poisoning, stone poison, summer heat, polydipsia, edema and dysuria. Its common aliases are adzuki bean and planting bean.
Using mung beans to clear away heat and relieve summer heat has existed since ancient times. "Eight Notes on Respect for Life" written by Gao, a health care practitioner in the Ming Dynasty, said: "To cool off the heat, wash mung beans and add water to the pot. The fire rolled and the soup stopped cooling, and the color was green. If you roll too much, it will be turbid and unpalatable. "
In modern times, the cooking time of mung bean soup varies according to needs. If it is used for digestion, boiling 10min is more appropriate. If you want to detoxify, you need to cook for a long time. The heat-clearing function of mung beans lies in the skin, and the detoxification function is among them. So, if you just want to cool off the heat, wash the mung beans when you cook the soup and cook them with strong fire. Be careful not to cook for a long time, so that the soup is green and clear, and you don't have to eat the beans together when drinking, which can achieve a good cooling effect; If it is heat-clearing and detoxification, it is best to cook the beans, so that the color of mung bean soup is turbid and the effect of relieving summer heat is poor, but the effect of heat-clearing and detoxification is stronger. Although mung bean has the function of relieving summer heat, it is not suitable for people with cold taste, weakness of spleen and stomach, deficiency of kidney yang and deficiency of constitution. Of course, long-term use of mung bean alone will hurt the spleen and stomach, but because mung bean itself has the effect of clearing away heat and relieving summer heat and stimulating appetite, it can often be used together with other drugs to treat spleen and stomach weakness. As the saying goes, "the gains and losses are in things, and the gains and losses are in people." For example, there is a prescription named "Yulu Ointment" in the Prescription for Planting Tang Fu in the Qing Dynasty, which is fried and ground with 500g of pan coke from old rice, 60g of fried atractylodes, 45g of dried tangerine peel, 0/20g of lotus seed meat and improved rice/kloc-0, and 50g of glutinous rice and mung bean, and each dosage is 60g, 2-3 times a day, and it is taken with boiled water.
Mung bean coat is sweet in taste, cold in nature and good at clearing away heat and toxic materials.
Soak mung beans in clear water, then take the skin and dry it to make mung bean clothes, preferably pure, dry and red. The use of mung bean coat was first seen in Compendium of Materia Medica. Its taste is sweet and cold, and it enters the heart and stomach. It has the effects of clearing away heat and toxic materials, relieving summer heat and reducing fever, and is often used for maculopapular rash, measles complicated with enteritis and other diseases. Its common aliases are mung bean skin and mung bean shell.
Mung bean coat is rarely used in clinic at present, but it was used by doctors in Ming and Qing Dynasties. This is due to the development of epidemic febrile diseases in Ming and Qing dynasties, and it was used for clinical diagnosis and treatment of epidemic febrile diseases by virtue of the heat-clearing and detoxification function of mung bean coat. About mung beans being put into prescriptions, such as He Qiao soup in Treatise on Febrile Diseases (mint is one yuan and fifty cents, forsythia is one yuan and fifty cents, raw licorice is one yuan, black gardenia skin is one yuan and fifty cents, two dried stems and two mung bean skins); The San Qian method of removing summer heat and detoxifying spirit in Lei Feng's Theory of Seasonal Diseases is to prepare one part of Pinellia ternata, five parts of talc San Qian, five parts of licorice powder, six parts of ginseng leaves, eight parts of coptis root, San Qian honeysuckle, San Qian forsythia and mung bean wrapped in San Qian.
Before and after the founding of the People's Republic of China, it was common for doctors in the north to use this medicine. As Li Shizhen said in Compendium of Materia Medica: "Mung beans are planted everywhere ... widely used by northerners." For example, Mr. Shi Jinmo, one of the four famous doctors in Beijing, used mung bean coat and coix seed to treat upper digestive syndrome and achieved good results. However, the compatibility of drugs is carefully investigated, but it is the treatment of lung, stomach and intestine. Coix seed and mung bean coat can treat diabetes with thirst as the main symptom. The lung and large intestine are in the exterior and interior, and the heat and toxicity in the intestine are distinct, so the lung is golden and self-leveling. Both of these drugs can enter the spleen and stomach to clear heat and detoxify, which is also a way to prevent stomach fire from hurting the lungs. The two drugs can not only clear the heat toxin in the stomach, but also strengthen the spleen and benefit the lung, and the effect is quite rapid.
Another example is 1977. Zhang Zanchen treated 50-year-old male patients with multiple swelling and nasal furuncle by expelling pus and reducing swelling.
Initial diagnosis: burning nose, sparse purulent secretion, extremely unpleasant smell, skin on the surface, and then extended to face, eyes and neck. There is also a swelling at the back of the neck 1 month, which has been cured by various methods. The examination found that the nasal vestibule was swollen, and there was a boil in the middle of the back of the neck. The swelling had festered and the wound was small and not smooth. The pulse is thin and smooth. The syndrome of heat toxin is unknown, so it is planned to clear away toxin and detoxify. Prescription: 9 grams of Radix Paeoniae Rubra, 9 grams of Cortex Moutan, 9 grams of Flos Lonicerae, 9 grams of Trichosanthis Radix and 9 grams of Fritillaria elephant, 9 grams of dandelion and 0.2 grams of mung bean, and 2.4 grams of raw licorice. 7 doses, external medicine thread drainage, gatidan applied to the sore surface.
The second diagnosis: the swelling of mouth and nose subsided, the ulcer of neck and back was not found, the surrounding roots were soft, the moss was thin and clean, and the pulse was slippery. Add 9g hibiscus flower, 9g Scutellaria baicalensis Georgi and 9g Lycium barbarum peel. After taking 12 dose, external use is the same as before.
After treatment, the swelling of the nose and mouth completely subsided, but I felt burning pain and the rotten place at the back of my neck had healed. In order to prevent problems before they happen, and then consolidate them in Qinghua, the hibiscus flowers and Lycium barbarum peel were removed from them, and dandelion and honeysuckle were replaced with 9g and mung bean coat 12g respectively. 7 doses, external application of Qingling soft voice on the affected area. Multiple swelling of nose subsided and healed. Outpatient follow-up 1 year, no relapse.
Lu, a master of traditional Chinese medicine, is a modern physician who makes good use of traditional Chinese medicine. He often uses mung bean tea to treat chronic, difficult and severe diseases such as systemic erythema wolf and acne, and has achieved good results. On behalf of tea, the prescriptions are mostly sweet, light and warm. Spicy flavoring drugs, such as Styrax stem, Pogostemon Pogostemonis, Eupatorium odoratum, lentils, stigma Maydis, parched malt, watermelon Cui Yi, lalang grass rhizome, reed rhizome, mung bean peel, adzuki bean, parched coix seed, bergamot, magnolia officinalis, Pinellia tuber, Pueraria lobata, parched almond, radix Pseudostellariae, Atractylodis Rhizoma, American ginseng, parched almond and radix Pseudostellariae. The prescription is refined and accurate, mild in nature and definite in curative effect, and has good effects of nourishing yin and benefiting qi, invigorating spleen and regulating stomach, and eliminating dampness.
In addition to oral administration, mung bean coat can also be used externally. In Compendium of Materia Medica, Li Shizhen recorded that mung bean clothes were used as "eyesight-improving pillows": "Tartary buckwheat skin, black bean skin, mung bean skin, cassia seed and chrysanthemum were used as pillows to improve eyesight when you are old." With the help of mung bean coat, you can improve your eyesight until you are old.
In addition, mung bean coat can also be used to treat burns and scalds. The specific method is: take 30g of mung bean coat and borneol1g. First, stir-fry mung bean skin, add borneol, grind it into fine powder, and apply it externally to the affected area, which is based on the heat-clearing and detoxification characteristics of mung bean skin.