Can I drink mung bean water while taking medicine

We all know that mung beans can clear away heat and detoxify, and can also relieve summer heat and reduce fever. But some friends don’t know that we cannot drink mung bean water after suffering from certain diseases and taking medicine. Of course, not all medicines cannot be taken with mung bean water. You can drink mung bean water when taking antipyretic medicines, but if you have a cold in your body, you should not drink mung bean water when taking medicines. Here is an introduction to the relationship between taking medicine and drinking mung bean water.

If you suffer from heat symptoms such as heatstroke, sore throat, cough with yellow sputum, mumps, dry mouth, bitter taste in the mouth, skin infection, urinary tract infection, constipation, etc., 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.

Through the above introduction, I believe everyone has a general understanding of the relationship between taking medicine and drinking mung bean water. Mung bean is a kind of food with cold properties, so if your body is too hot, it is better to use mung bean water. If your body is too cold, don't eat too much mung bean. When we are sick, we need to figure out whether it is a fever or a cold, so that we can determine whether we can eat mung beans.