Is it good to drink mung bean soup while taking medicine?

I wonder if you have ever encountered some people in your life who drink mung bean soup while taking medicine? I believe you will find it very strange when you encounter this phenomenon, but in fact, you can drink mung bean soup while taking medicine, and mung bean soup can help you get rid of the bitterness of the medicine. So if your children are sick at home, you can give them medicine in this way. I believe this will also help you solve many problems.

Many people emphasize that it is wrong for all patients taking Chinese medicine to not eat mung beans. Whether or not you can eat mung beans depends on the disease the patient has and the type of Chinese medicine he or she is taking.

Mung bean itself is also a traditional Chinese medicine, which has the effects of clearing away heat and detoxifying, relieving heat and promoting salivation, and promoting diuresis and reducing swelling. If the patient has symptoms of heat stroke, sore throat, cough with yellow sputum, mumps, dry mouth, bitter mouth, skin infection, urinary tract infection, constipation, etc.

Taking mung bean soup (porridge) at the same time as taking traditional Chinese medicines for treating these diseases (such as coptis chinensis, scutellaria baicalensis, phellodendron chinense, isatis indigotica, isatis root, bezoar, honeysuckle and other heat-clearing Chinese medicines) can complement each other and achieve twice the result with half the effort.

If the patient suffers from spleen and stomach deficiency and body yang deficiency, such as chronic gastroenteritis, cold, pain and numbness of limb joints, difficulty in movement, abdominal pain and diarrhea, dysmenorrhea and other deficiency and cold symptoms, and is taking warming and tonic medicines such as ginseng, astragalus, cinnamon, aconite, cloves, galangal, and other Chinese medicines that warm the meridians and dispel cold, such as cassia twig, dried ginger, and asarum to treat these diseases, then he should abstain from eating mung beans to prevent further cold or weaken the efficacy of the warming and tonic Chinese medicines.

As for Western medicine, so far, there has been no definite scientific research results that mung beans can make certain drugs ineffective. Modern research has found that the chemical components of mung beans include protein, fat, carbohydrates, vitamins B1, B2, carotene, folic acid, and minerals calcium, phosphorus, and iron.

Mung bean soup is a relatively good food. Drinking it in summer can also help clear away heat and reduce summer heat, so you can drink some of it often. If you feel that the medicine is too hard to drink, you can choose to take it with mung bean soup. You don’t have to worry that the mung bean soup will dilute the medicinal properties. This way, the medicine will become much more delicious.