What are the advantages and disadvantages of eating more mung beans?

Mung beans are cold, and people with yang deficiency, spleen and stomach weakness and diarrhea should eat them carefully. Generally, it is not edible in winter. Mung beans are cold, which easily leads to vigorous deficiency fire, oral erosion and swollen gums. In order to avoid eating mung beans that are too cold, mung beans must be cooked for a long time. Children's gastric mucosa structure is weak. Drinking too much sour plum soup will stimulate the gastric mucosa and easily cause gastric and duodenal ulcers, such as cold limbs, cold pain in the waist and legs, diarrhea and loose stools. Eating mung beans will aggravate the symptoms of these people, and even lead to diarrhea (severe dehydration), joint and muscle pain caused by stagnation of qi and blood, chronic gastritis caused by stomach cold, spleen and stomach weakness and other digestive system diseases.

It is not advisable to eat mung beans when taking medicine, especially warm tonics, so as not to reduce the efficacy. Mung beans have detoxification function. If the medicine contains organic phosphorus, calcium, potassium and other ingredients, mung beans will combine with these ingredients to form a precipitate, thus decomposing the efficacy and affecting the treatment.

Suitable for people with symptoms of irritability, dry throat and thirst in hot and humid weather or heatstroke. Sweating at high temperature will make the body lose a lot of minerals and vitamins, leading to internal environment disorder. Mung beans are rich in inorganic salts and vitamins. Drinking mung bean soup in high temperature environment can replenish the lost nutrients in time and achieve the therapeutic effect of "clearing away heat and relieving summer heat"

It is suitable for people with skin infection caused by boils, carbuncle and erysipelas. Mung beans are rich in protein, and raw green soybean milk soaked in raw mung beans has a high protein content, which can protect gastrointestinal mucosa if taken orally. Mung bean protein, tannins and flavonoids can combine with organophosphorus pesticides, mercury, arsenic and lead compounds to form a precipitate, which reduces or loses toxicity and is not easily absorbed by the gastrointestinal tract. Many bioactive substances in mung beans have antioxidant effects, and whether antioxidant effects can reduce the cytotoxicity and genotoxicity of organophosphorus pesticides in the treatment of organophosphorus pesticide poisoning needs further discussion.

Suitable for patients with hypertension, edema and pinkeye.