Can mung bean soup undo Western medicine?

Mung bean soup is a well-known summer-relief drink. Whenever the hot summer comes, almost every household will make mung bean soup as a must-have drink to clear away heat and relieve summer heat. It’s so relaxing to drink a cup of ice-cold mung bean soup after waking up from a nap! Mung bean soup does have a good effect in relieving heat, but if you are taking medication at the same time, you should be careful! Many friends wonder whether mung bean soup can cure Western medicine. Let’s take a look below!

1. Benefits of mung bean soup

Mung beans have the effect of detoxifying and clearing the mind. Therefore, many people like to make some mung bean soup at home in summer, but the length of time for cooking is very important. According to Professor Xiong Jiaping from the Department of Internal Medicine at Hubei Provincial Hospital of Traditional Chinese Medicine, if you want to cool down, boil it for about 10 minutes and just drink the soup; if you want to detoxify, you need to boil it longer and it is best to eat the beans together. This means that boiling it for a short time will not detoxify, but boiling it for a long time will have the effect of detoxification. However, there are also taboos for taking mung bean soup to relieve heat

Traditional Chinese medicine believes that mung beans have the effects of relieving heat and invigorating qi, clearing away heat and detoxifying, moistening the throat and quenching thirst. They can prevent heatstroke, treat food poisoning, etc. However, nutritionists remind people: Although most people can drink mung bean soup safely without too many taboos, people with weak constitutions should not drink too much. From the perspective of traditional Chinese medicine, people with cold symptoms should not drink too much. Since mung beans have detoxifying effects, people who are taking Chinese medicine should not drink too much. If the medicine irritates your stomach, do not take it on an empty stomach. Strictly speaking, mung beans neutralize the toxicity in medicines and food, rather than being an antidote.

(II) Effects of mung bean soup on Chinese patent medicines

Mung bean soup has the effect of clearing away heat and detoxifying. Drinking mung bean soup while taking western medicine will not affect the efficacy of the medicine. If you take Chinese patent medicine or Chinese medicine for clearing heat and detoxifying, it will not affect the efficacy of the medicine. However, if you take nourishing, tonic, and pungent and warm Chinese patent medicines, it is best not to drink mung bean soup at the same time, so as not to affect the efficacy of the medicine. Traditional Chinese medicine has four properties: cold, hot, warm and cool; mung bean is cool in nature and has antipyretic effects. For example, to detoxify aconite, Chuanwu and Caowu, licorice is often used to enhance the therapeutic effect. It can also neutralize the effects of sweet and warm tonic medicines such as astragalus, cinnamon, and dried ginger, but it will not be an antidote for febrile diseases. It embodies the treatment principle of traditional Chinese medicine: treat cold with heat and treat heat with cool. Treat based on syndrome differentiation. You won’t be wrong; no matter how important Western medicine is, it mainly depends on the nature of the disease. Only based on the nature of the disease can you know whether there is an antidote.