The summer weather is hot, and many people like to drink mung bean soup to clear heat and relieve summer heat. But did you know? Drinking mung bean soup can actually also detoxify, because patients with drug or food poisoning can reduce toxicity by drinking mung bean soup.
Can mung bean soup detoxify?
Many people have many questions about mung bean soup. It is commonly used in folk remedies to save patients poisoned by drugs or food. It is said that this method is very effective. Mung beans detoxify the toxins in drugs and food. Many people are wondering, then can mung bean soup really detoxify?
When suffering from heat-related and excess syndromes such as heatstroke, sore throat, cough with yellow phlegm, mumps, dry mouth, bitter taste, skin infections, urinary tract infections, and constipation, taking mung bean soup (congee), mung bean cakes, etc., while taking Chinese medicine can play a synergistic role, achieving a multiplier effect. In addition, the detoxification effect of mung beans is due to the fact that mung bean protein, tannins, and flavonoids in mung beans can combine with organophosphorus pesticides, mercury, arsenic, and lead compounds to form precipitates, reducing or eliminating their toxicity and making them less easily absorbed by the gastrointestinal tract. Therefore, patients with pesticide poisoning can take mung bean soup or grind raw mung beans into powder to take with water while taking Chinese medicine to increase the therapeutic effect. Because mung beans are cold-natured, they are not beneficial for people with weak spleen and stomach or yang deficiency. For those with deficiency and cold syndromes such as chronic gastroenteritis, cold, numb, and unmovable limb and joint pain, abdominal pain, diarrhea, and dysmenorrhea, mung beans should be avoided when taking Chinese medicine. Otherwise, it will not only reduce the efficacy of the Chinese medicine but also aggravate the condition.
Other effects and benefits of mung bean soup
In addition to its detoxification effect, mung bean soup can also clear heat and relieve summer heat, as well as provide antibacterial and lipid-lowering effects.
Clearing heat and relieving summer heat
People who work in the summer or in high-temperature environments sweat a lot, resulting in significant loss of body fluids, with the greatest loss of potassium, disrupting the body's electrolyte balance. Using mung bean soup for supplementation is the most ideal method. It can clear summer heat, replenish qi, quench thirst, and promote urination. It not only replenishes water but also replenishes inorganic salts in a timely manner, which is of great significance for maintaining the water and electrolyte balance.
Antibacterial and antimicrobial
We know that mung bean soup has antibacterial and antimicrobial effects. Some components in mung beans have a direct antimicrobial effect. It can also play an indirect antibacterial role by improving immune function. The many bioactive substances in mung beans, such as coumarins, alkaloids, phytosterols, and saponins, can enhance the body's immune function.
Lowering blood lipids
Some people fed rabbits with a diet mixed with 70% mung bean powder or germinated mung bean powder and found that it had a preventive and therapeutic effect on the increase of blood lipids in experimental hyperlipidemic rabbits, and significantly reduced coronary artery lesions. Others fed animals with a diet mixed with the aqueous-alcoholic extract of mung beans for 7 consecutive days and confirmed a significant lowering effect on serum cholesterol in normal mice and rats. Further research found that the phytosterols in mung beans can reduce the absorption of cholesterol in the intestines and lower serum cholesterol levels. In addition, soybean globulin has been experimentally proven to lower serum cholesterol, and it is worth exploring whether mung bean globulin has the same effect.
Anti-tumor
Mung beans have a certain preventive effect on morphine and sodium nitrite-induced lung cancer and liver cancer in mice. Another experiment confirmed that phenylalanine ammonia-lyase extracted from mung beans has a significant inhibitory effect on mouse leukemia cells.