After long-term research, it is found that mung beans are sweet and cold, and have the effects of clearing away heat and toxic materials, relieving summer heat and diuresis. It has been recorded in Compendium of Materia Medica that cooking with mung beans can reduce swelling, reduce qi, clear away heat and toxic materials, relieve summer heat and quench thirst, harmonize the five internal organs, soothe the nerves, replenish deficiency and moisturize the skin; Mung bean powder can relieve many poisons: treat sores and burns; Mung bean skin can clear away heat and toxic materials and relieve nebula (easy); Mung bean sprouts can relieve alcoholism and detoxify.
Moreover, mung bean has high nutritional value and contains many healthy substances such as protein, fat, sugar, calcium, phosphorus, iron and vitamins. Among them, the content of amino acids is relatively complete, especially phenylalanine and lysine. If mixed with rice, its nutritional value will be improved.
In summer, boil water with appropriate amount of mung bean coat and fresh lotus leaf to stop dryness and remove prickly heat; Boiling mung beans with licorice as a drink can cure swelling, sores, drug poisoning and alcoholism.
Note: Mung bean has high nutritional value and is rich in calcium, phosphorus, iron, vitamin A, B 1, B2, nicotinic acid and polypeptide. In the cooking process, mung beans should not be too rotten, otherwise the nutrients in them will be destroyed. Reduce that efficacy of clearing away heat and toxic material. Because mung beans are cool, people with weak spleen and stomach should not eat more.
So mung beans are all treasures. Eat more mung beans and be responsible for your family.
Medicinal porridge for clearing away heat and relieving summer heat
1, pear porridge
Wash three pears, chop them up, add appropriate amount of water to boil for half an hour, remove the pear residue with a colander, add rice to cook porridge, and eat while it is hot.
Efficacy: It can relieve cough due to lung heat, loss of appetite, dizziness and other symptoms.
2, winter melon porridge
500g wax gourd (1 kg) is peeled, the pulp is taken out and cut into small pieces; Wash japonica rice (refined)100g (2 liang); Add a small amount of cooked ham and cut into powder.
Add oil to the pan, heat it, add chopped green onion to the wok, add wax gourd, minced ham, clear water and japonica rice, boil over high heat, turn to low heat and cook until porridge is formed, and season with salt.
Efficacy: It can clear away heat, nourish stomach, induce diuresis, and has therapeutic effect on summer heat, thirst, edema and gonorrhea.
3, watermelon skin porridge
Remove 250g (half a catty) watermelon skin from hard skin and residual meat (that is, remove the red part of watermelon), wash and cut into pieces, and marinate with salt 10 minute.
Put clean water, diced watermelon peel and washed japonica rice 100g (2 ounces) into a pot, bring to a boil with high fire, and then turn to low heat for 15min. Season with salt before eating.
Efficacy: relieving summer heat and fever, promoting fluid production to quench thirst, and promoting diuresis to reduce swelling. It is suitable for thirst caused by summer heat, heatstroke, dizziness, short and red urine, nephritis edema and diabetes.
4. barley porridge
50g (1 2) of Coicis Semen was washed, soaked for 3 hours, and then taken out. Wash100g (2 liang) japonica rice.
Put water, coix seed and japonica rice into a pot, boil over high fire and turn to low fire to cook porridge.
Efficacy: expelling wind and removing dampness, promoting diuresis and reducing swelling, suitable for rheumatoid arthritis and edema.
5, towel gourd porridge
250g (half a catty) of towel gourd was washed and cut into pieces, and polished round-grained rice 100g (2 liang) was washed.
Put water and japonica rice in the pot, add loofah and salt when it is half cooked, and then cook until it becomes porridge.
Efficacy: clearing away heat, promoting bowel movement, cooling blood and detoxifying, suitable for body heat and polydipsia in summer.
Milk is indispensable.
Milk is rich in nutrition and is a good tonic. Milk is sweet in taste and slightly cold in nature, and has the functions of moistening lung and invigorating stomach, promoting fluid production and relaxing bowels, and tonifying deficiency and detoxifying.
Moreover, milk contains about 70% water, so protein and fat are easily absorbed by human body.
Drinking milk in summer can not only replenish the water lost by the body, but also increase the nutrients, which is very beneficial to maintaining health.
Why not soak yourself in herbal tea to relieve the heat?
1, chrysanthemum tea with double flowers
Honeysuckle 10g, white chrysanthemum 10g, brewed with boiling water, and taken with appropriate amount of sugar.
Efficacy: it can clear away heat and detoxify.
2, Ophiopogon japonicus hawthorn tea
Ophiopogon japonicus and Crataegus pinnatifida each 10g, brewed in boiling water, cooled and drunk.
Efficacy: it can strengthen the spleen and stomach, promote fluid production to quench thirst, disinfect and dissipate blood stasis.
3. Corn silk tea
20g of corn stigma, washed and soaked in boiling water for drinking.
Efficacy: It has the effect of relaxing bowels and diuresis.
4. cassia seed tea
Semen Cassiae 100g, stir-fry with slow fire until slightly yellow, and put in a covered glass bottle for later use. Take 5g each time, and brew with boiling water for drinking.
Efficacy: It has the effect of relaxing bowels and diuresis.