The harm of mung bean skin pillow

Mung bean is the most commonly consumed ingredient for heatstroke prevention and cooling down in the hot summer. Every summer, people will buy some mung beans and cook mung bean soup for the whole family. Drinking mung bean soup in summer is almost a tradition. Mung bean has therefore become the most popular health food in summer. Many people will throw away the mung bean skin when eating mung beans, which is a complete waste. The mung bean skin has many benefits.

Mung bean skin pillows can clear away heat and relieve summer insomnia symptoms

Few people know that mung bean skins can also be used to make pillows. They are cool, breathable, and dissipate heat quickly. They can not only relieve heat but also help alleviate summer insomnia. It really kills two birds with one stone.

Specific method: Take an appropriate amount of mung beans, wash them, put them in a small amount of cold water, soak them for three or four hours, then put the mung beans in a pot, add water and boil them (do not add too much water). After boiling, add cold water three times respectively, the mung bean skin will float up, take it out, wash it and dry it. Finally, put the mung bean skins into a small, thin bag and stuff it into the pillow. When using mung bean skin as pillow core, you can also add chrysanthemum, cassia seed, etc., which have the effects of calming the mind, clearing away heat and improving eyesight.

Traditional Chinese medicine believes that mung bean skin can clear away wind and heat, reduce rashes, and reduce swelling.

Mung bean skin, mung bean leaves, shells and mung bean skins have been included as medicinal materials in "Compendium of Materia Medica". The medicinal material is derived from the seed coat of mung bean, a plant of the legume family. Soak the mung beans in water, and rub them to remove the seed coat. It is usually obtained by drying the remaining husks after mung beans germinate. The best ones are dry, green in color, not turning red and free of mold.

Traditional Chinese medicine believes that mung bean peel is sweet and cold in nature, which is one of the reasons why mung bean can clear away heat and relieve summer heat. Therefore, it is not suitable for people with weak and cold constitution to drink too much, especially those with cold stomach and intestines should not eat too much mung beans!

The Compendium of Materia Medica records that mung bean peel can "relieve heat and toxins, and remove eye cataracts."

Everyone can understand the function of clearing away heat and toxins, but what kind of disease is eye opacity? Eye cataract refers to the obstruction of vision inside the eye. From the perspective of traditional Chinese medicine, it is divided into wind-heat type, liver-kidney yin deficiency type, and qi and blood stagnation type. Eye opacity treated with mung bean peel obviously belongs to the first type of syndrome.

The Qing Dynasty dietetic book "Sui Xi Ju Diet" records that mung bean skin can "clear away wind and heat, remove eye opacities, resolve rashes, and reduce swelling." Here, the efficacy of mung bean skin in treating skin diseases and digestive system diseases is added.