Can I drink mung bean soup while taking medicine?

When we encounter some disease problems, we need to use drugs to help ourselves treat and control them. However, if we want to better exert the efficacy of the drugs, we must follow the doctor's advice, so that we can better help ourselves achieve the purpose of treatment. In our daily life, we often eat mung beans. If we drink mung bean soup while taking medicine, will it reduce the efficacy of the medicine?

Generally speaking, in life, we recommend that you try not to eat mung beans or drink mung bean soup when taking medicine, because it may affect the efficacy of your medicine and is also not good for your own health, so I hope everyone can pay more attention to this problem.

Mung bean soup: 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 is related to the type of disease: for example, if you suffer from heat syndrome, sore throat, cough with yellow sputum, mumps, dry mouth, bitter mouth, skin infection, urinary tract infection, constipation and other hot symptoms, taking mung bean soup (porridge) or mung bean cake at the same time as taking Chinese medicine can play a complementary role 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.

Through these introductions, we found that it is not recommended to drink mung bean soup while taking medicine, because it can easily affect the efficacy of the medicine, which is actually not conducive to the treatment of our disease. Therefore, I hope everyone can pay more attention to this issue when taking medicine, so as to better ensure their health.