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, I will introduce you to the common sense about mung beans. Friends who are concerned about dietotherapy must have a look.
Efficacy and function of mung bean
1. Mung beans are sweet and cool, and have the effects of clearing away heat and toxic materials, clearing away heat and toxic materials and promoting diuresis.
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 are sweet, cold and non-toxic. Entering heart meridian and stomach meridian. Main erysipelas annoying heat, rubella, hot air flushing dolphins, raw research and wringing juice, cooking, detumescence and relieving qi, hot pressing and detoxification. ? The herbal medicines of later generations all expounded the medicinal effects of mung beans. Compendium of Materia Medica says: Mung beans, although the function of detumescence and acne removal is the same as that of red beans, but the power of pressing heat to detoxify is too strong. Moreover, there is no taboo for replenishing qi, invigorating stomach and dredging meridians for a long time. Surgical treatment of carbuncle, including internal support and Baoxin powder, has excellent results. ? So what? Xiejinshi, arsenic, vegetation and all kinds of poisons? .
4. "Materia Medica Seeking Truth": Mung beans are sweet in taste and cold in nature. According to the book, they are excellent. It is said that 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. The ability to be thick, moist, harmonious and resourceful mentioned in the first paragraph is all caused by toxic evil. All zang-fu organs, meridians, skin and spleen and stomach are not disturbed by toxic substances, so they are good at detoxification, so all operations cannot be separated from this. ?
5, mung bean powder has a significant 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.
Edible taboos of mung beans
Mung beans have the effects of relieving summer heat and benefiting qi, clearing away heat and toxic materials, moistening throat and quenching thirst, but there are also some taboos. 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 it.
For example, people with cold limbs, abdominal distension, diarrhea and loose stool are not suitable for drinking mung bean soup too much. Eating mung beans will aggravate symptoms and cause other diseases.
2. Old people, children and people with weak constitution are not suitable for eating.
Because the content of protein in mung bean is more than that in chicken, the macromolecular 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.
People who are taking various drugs should not eat them.
The detoxification components of mung beans will decompose the efficacy and affect the treatment.
Mung bean itself is a kind of Chinese medicine. If you suffer from exogenous wind-heat and summer heat, taking mung bean soup properly while taking Chinese medicine will play a complementary role. However, people with gastrointestinal weakness, limb weakness, chills, cold pain in waist and legs, diarrhea and other symptoms should avoid eating mung beans when taking traditional Chinese medicine, otherwise it will not only reduce the curative effect of the medicine, but also aggravate the condition. Therefore, whether you can eat mung beans when you eat Chinese medicine can't be generalized. It should be judged according to your condition of cold and heat deficiency and the taste of Chinese medicine you eat.
4. Menstrual women
Menstrual women are in a state of blood loss, and their constitution is cold. It is not appropriate to drink cold mung bean soup, otherwise it will lead to qi stagnation and blood stasis in women, cause abdominal pain or aggravate dysmenorrhea and menstrual discomfort.
Nutrition experts suggest that you can choose to drink mung bean porridge to avoid mung bean being too cold. If you want to cook soup with mung beans alone, mung beans must be cooked before eating.
5. Don't cook mung bean soup in an iron pot.
When cooking mung bean soup, it is most inappropriate to use an iron pot. Most of the active ingredients of mung beans are in the skin of mung beans. After the flavonoids in mung bean skin interact with metal ions, it may form a dark complex, which will turn the color of mung bean soup black and cause gastrointestinal discomfort and indigestion after eating. Therefore, it is ideal to cook mung bean soup in casserole.
6. Do not add alkali to the mung bean soup.
Mung bean is rich in vitamin B, which is an important part of mung bean's summer-cooling characteristics and can make up for the nutritional loss when sweating. Moreover, alkali will seriously destroy vitamin B, and at the same time, the flavonoid antioxidant components in mung beans will be lost due to the addition of alkali, which will lead to structural changes and yellow color. Therefore, it is best not to add alkali to mung bean soup. If you want to make the soup sticky, consider adding a small amount of oatmeal or glutinous rice? Thickening? .
7, mung bean soup can not be drunk every day.
It is no problem to drink mung bean soup properly. The average adult can drink a bowl two or three times a week. Children should consult a doctor according to their physical conditions, because the content of protein in mung beans is more than that in chicken, and the macromolecular protein needs to be converted into small peptides and amino acids under the action of enzymes before it can be absorbed by the human body. Children's gastrointestinal digestive function is poor, it is difficult to digest mung bean protein in a short time, and it is easy to cause diarrhea due to indigestion. Generally speaking, children start eating porridge at the age of 2 to 3, and you can add some mung beans in moderation. You can drink adult quantity after 6 years old.
8, can not drink mung bean soup on an empty stomach.
From the perspective of Chinese medicine, mung beans are cold, and drinking on an empty stomach is easy to hurt the spleen and stomach. People with cold constitution will have cold limbs, cold pain in waist and legs, diarrhea, loose stool and other symptoms, but eating mung beans will aggravate the symptoms, and even cause diarrhea, joint muscle pain caused by stagnation of qi and blood, stomach cold caused by weakness of spleen and stomach, chronic gastritis and other digestive system diseases.
9. Don't drink too much mung bean soup.
Although mung bean soup is delicious, you should not drink too much. The oligosaccharides contained in mung beans are easy to make people flatulence, and mung beans are indigestible food, and excessive drinking can easily damage the spleen and stomach, while excessive drinking of mung bean soup by female friends can easily lead to abdominal distension and dysmenorrhea.
Can pregnant women drink mung bean soup?
The content of lysine in mung bean is higher than other crops. In addition, mung bean is rich in starch, fat, protein, vitamins, zinc, calcium and other minerals, which is a good diet for pregnant women to supplement zinc and prevent pregnancy edema. But pregnant women should also drink less mung bean soup. Mung beans are yin, which is not suitable for people with cold and spleen deficiency to drink for a long time. Pregnant women should not put too much polysaccharide in mung bean soup, and pregnant women must not drink iced mung bean soup, which may easily lead to diarrhea. When cooking mung beans, you can add some red beans and jujube to cook together, which can help pregnant women achieve the effect of invigorating qi and nourishing blood.
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