Are mung bean sprouts an antidote?

In fact, we often eat mung bean sprouts in our daily life. It can bring certain health value to our health, and many people believe that bean sprouts can achieve the effect of an antidote. So do you know whether mung bean sprouts can achieve a certain detoxification effect for our health, such as when facing some reading? Let’s take a closer look at it below!

In fact, mung bean sprouts are often eaten as a food, but they are not used as an antidote. Instead, they are mainly used to help us alleviate the toxicity problems in drugs and food. In other words, we should not eat mung bean sprouts while taking 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 warming tonic drugs such as ginseng, astragalus, cinnamon, aconite, cloves, galangal, and warming meridian and cold-dispelling Chinese medicines such as cassia twig, dried ginger, and asarum, do not take mung beans without the doctor's permission, so as not to reduce the efficacy of the drugs and affect the treatment effect.

The above is an introduction on whether mung bean sprouts are an antidote. I hope that through this introduction everyone will have a more comprehensive understanding of mung bean sprouts. Only if we pay attention to these health issues can we better ensure our health and thus better avoid the emergence of some adverse factors.