Can't I eat mung beans when taking Chinese medicine?

It is not necessarily that you cannot eat mung beans when you are having an important meal. It needs to be analyzed according to the specific situation. Some people have a hot body, and the purpose of taking mung beans is to remove the heat. So it is completely possible to eat mung beans at this time, and it is beneficial to eat more of them. However, some people fall ill due to physical weakness and coldness. At this time, they should not eat mung beans, otherwise it will aggravate the coldness in the body and make the symptoms more serious.

From the medicinal properties of traditional Chinese medicine, Chinese medicines for clearing away heat, such as coptis chinensis, scutellaria baicalensis, phellodendron chinense, isatis indigotica, isatis root, bezoar, honeysuckle, gypsum, etc., when taken together with mung beans, can play a complementary role; while warming tonic medicines such as ginseng, astragalus, cinnamon, aconite, cloves, galangal, and Chinese medicines for warming the meridians and dispersing cold, such as cassia twig, dried ginger, and asarum, should not be taken with mung beans without the doctor's permission, so as not to reduce the efficacy of the medicine and affect the treatment effect.

In addition, mung beans are cold in nature. Doctor Ye recommends that people with a cold constitution, such as those with cold limbs, abdominal distension, diarrhea, and loose stools, should not drink mung bean soup to avoid aggravating the symptoms or even causing other diseases. If you want to avoid eating mung beans that are too cold, you can choose to add an appropriate amount of glutinous rice or rice when cooking the mung beans, throw in a few slices of ginger, and make mung bean porridge. Or you can boil the mung beans alone and eat them, because some of their medicinal effects will be weakened after being boiled for a long time. Mung beans are legumes. Eating too much will stimulate the secretion of gastric acid. For people with a history of gastritis and gastric ulcers, this can easily induce a recurrence of the old disease, or even lead to more serious consequences such as gastric bleeding and gastric perforation.

Here is a brief introduction to the main functions of mung beans. Modern medical research has found that mung beans have good antibacterial and antibacterial properties, especially for Staphylococcus aureus. In addition, the plant sterols and flavonoids contained in mung beans also have good antiviral effects. Elderly people can lower blood lipids and blood pressure by eating some mung beans.