Mung beans are cool and sweet. Drinking at ordinary times can relieve summer heat and quench thirst. Because of its diuretic effect, drinking food or medicine after poisoning can also eliminate toxins in the body, and it also has certain curative effect on heat swelling, heat thirst, heat dysentery, carbuncle, pox poison, macula and so on.

The efficacy of mung bean soup:

1, detoxification: the heat-clearing power of mung beans lies in the skin, and the detoxification power is included. Therefore, if you just want to cool off the heat, wash the mung beans when cooking soup and cook them on high fire for about 10 minutes. Be careful not to cook for too long. The soup cooked in this way is green and clear. You don't need to eat beans together when drinking, which can achieve a good summer effect. If it is for clearing away heat and toxic materials, it is best to cook the beans. This kind of mung bean soup is turbid in color, which has a poor effect of relieving summer heat, but has a strong effect of clearing away heat and toxic materials.

2, anti-heatstroke: mung beans and other foods are cooked together, and the effect is better. For example, to prevent heatstroke, you can drink mung bean Yin Hua soup: mung bean100g, honeysuckle 30g, and take it with water.

Mung bean is rich in nutrition, which is a kind of bean with high economic and nutritional value. Every100g of grain contains protein 22% ~ 25%, fat 1.2% ~ 2%, carbohydrate 58% ~ 60%, crude fiber 4.2%, calcium 49 mg, phosphorus 268 mg, iron 3.2 mg, carotene 0.22 mg and riboflavin 0. The protein content of mung bean is 2.3 times that of wheat flour, 2.7 times that of millet, 3 times that of corn flour, 3.2 times that of rice and 4.6 times that of sweet potato flour. Straw contains protein 16.2% and crude fat10.9%, both of which are higher than corn stems and leaves, so it is a good feed for livestock. Mung beans are high in protein, medium in starch and low in fat, and they are homologous in medicine and food. Mung bean has good palatability, easy digestion and simple processing technology. It is a favorite food and raw material for brewing, and is known as "green pearl".

Mung bean is a heat-clearing and detoxicating drug, which has anti-inflammatory, bactericidal and phagocytic effects. Its seeds and decoctions contain alkaloids, coumarins, phytosterols and other physiologically active substances, which play an important role in promoting the physiological and metabolic activities of people and animals. Chinese medicine believes that mung beans, bean skins, bean sprouts, bean leaves and flowers can be used as medicine. Mung beans are sweet, cold and enter the heart and lungs. Oral administration has the effects of clearing away heat and toxic materials, removing summer heat and promoting diuresis, resisting inflammation and swelling, protecting liver and improving eyesight, relieving diarrhea and moistening skin, lowering blood pressure and cholesterol in blood, and preventing atherosclerosis; External use can treat trauma, burn, furuncle and carbuncle.

Some people should not drink more mung bean soup.

Summer heat is prevalent, and mung bean soup is a traditional remedy for summer heat in China. Chinese medicine believes that mung bean has the effects of relieving summer heat and benefiting qi, clearing away heat and toxic materials, moistening throat and quenching thirst, and can prevent heatstroke and treat food poisoning.

Modern medical research also believes that mung bean has higher nutritional value, more protein content, 7 times of calcium, 4.5 times of iron and more phosphorus than chicken. These are very important for promoting and maintaining life development and various physiological functions of the body.

Has a clear role. Related experiments also show that mung beans may have obvious effects on treating atherosclerosis, lowering cholesterol in blood and protecting liver.

However, nutritionists remind people that although most people can safely drink mung bean soup without too many taboos, people with weak constitution should not drink too much. From the perspective of traditional Chinese medicine, patients with cold syndrome should not drink too much. Because mung beans have the function of detoxification, people who are taking Chinese medicine should not drink too much.