Is it true that mung bean soup has antidote properties?

Whenever the weather is hot, many people like to buy some mung beans home, then boil them into mung bean soup and store them in the refrigerator. Whenever I feel hot, drink some mung bean soup and you will instantly feel that all the heat in your body is taken away and you feel particularly refreshed. However, some people point out that mung bean soup can neutralize the effects of medicine, so you cannot drink mung bean soup while taking medicine. So, is mung bean soup really a cure?

Strictly speaking, mung beans neutralize the toxicity in drugs and food, but are not an antidote. People also often use mung bean soup to rescue people from drug or food poisoning. So, can you eat mung beans while taking Chinese medicine?

This question cannot be generalized, as it depends on the type of disease. For example, if you suffer from heat syndrome, such as heat stroke, sore throat, cough with yellow sputum, mumps, dry mouth, bitter mouth, skin infection, urinary tract infection, constipation, etc., taking mung bean soup (porridge) or mung bean cake at the same time as taking Chinese medicine can complement each other and achieve twice the result with half the effort. In addition, the detoxification effect of mung beans is that the mung bean protein, tannins and flavonoids in mung beans can combine with organophosphorus pesticides, mercury, arsenic, and lead compounds to form precipitates, reducing or losing their toxicity and making them difficult to be absorbed by the gastrointestinal tract. Therefore, patients with pesticide poisoning can take mung bean soup or raw mung bean powder while taking traditional Chinese medicine to increase the efficacy. Since mung beans are cold in nature, they are not beneficial for people with weak spleen and stomach and weak yang in the body. If you suffer from chronic gastroenteritis, cold and painful limb joints, numbness, difficulty in movement, abdominal pain, diarrhea, dysmenorrhea and other cold symptoms, you should avoid eating mung beans while taking Chinese medicine. Otherwise, it will not only reduce the efficacy of traditional Chinese medicine, but also aggravate the condition.

Whether you can take mung beans while taking traditional Chinese medicine also depends on the medicinal properties of the medicine: when taking heat-clearing Chinese medicines such as Coptis chinensis, Scutellaria baicalensis, Phellodendron chinense, Folium Isatidis, Root of Isatis, Bezoar, Honeysuckle, Gypsum, etc., taking them with mung beans can play a complementary role. When taking warm tonic medicines such as ginseng, astragalus, cinnamon, aconite, cloves, galangal, and warming and cold-dispelling Chinese medicines such as cassia twig, dried ginger, and asarum, do not take mung beans without the doctor's permission to avoid reducing the efficacy of the medicine and affecting the treatment effect.

Personally, based on my many years of experience, mung bean soup can only reduce the toxicity of some foods and dust. Therefore, there is no actual evidence to prove that mung bean soup can be an antidote. Therefore, as long as you drink mung bean soup according to the requirements of a healthy diet, there will generally be no adverse effects.