The efficacy and taboo of mung bean?

Mung bean has the effects of clearing away heat and relieving summer heat, inducing diuresis and detoxicating, and also has the functions of relieving or treating summer heat and polydipsia, common cold and fever, cholera vomiting and diarrhea, phlegm-heat asthma, headache and red eyes, sores on mouth and tongue, edema and oliguria, sores and carbuncle, rubella erysipelas, drugs and food poisoning.

Dietary taboos:

1. The unique protein in mung bean will react with some components in traditional Chinese medicine, thus reducing the efficacy of traditional Chinese medicine.

2. People with cold constitution, old and young, and weak constitution should avoid eating mung beans.

3. Because mung bean is cold, it can increase urine output, so patients with spleen and stomach deficiency and cold diarrhea should use it with caution.

4. Mung beans should not be peeled when used as medicine.

Modern research shows that mung beans contain riboflavin, tryptophan, methionine, tyrosine, carotene, fructose, phosphatidylglycerol, phosphatidylethanolamine, phosphatidylcholine, phosphatidylinosine, phosphatidylserine, maltose, glucose and phosphatidic acid. It has the effects of resisting oxidation, inhibiting the increase of blood urea nitrogen, increasing urine volume, promoting urinary phosphorus excretion, reducing blood phosphorus level, reducing blood lipid and alleviating liver and kidney damage.