Can you take mung bean with medicine

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Can you take mung bean with medicine? There is a folk saying that people can't eat mung beans if they drink medicine. Can they eat mung beans if they take medicine? Let's have a look.

Can you take mung bean with medicine

First, mung bean, a traditional Chinese medicine preparation, is also a kind of traditional Chinese medicine, which has the effects of clearing away heat and toxin, relieving heat and promoting fluid production, promoting diuresis and detumescence. If the patient is suffering from heat stroke, sore throat, cough and yellow phlegm, mumps, dry mouth, bitter mouth, skin infection, urinary tract infection, constipation and other heat disorders, taking Coptis, Scutellaria baicalensis, phellodendron, Folium Isatidis, Radix Isatidis, calculus bovis, honeysuckle and other heat clearing traditional Chinese medicine and mung bean soup (porridge) or mung bean cake can play a complementary role. If the patient is suffering from chronic gastroenteritis, limb joint cold pain, numbness, adverse activity, abdominal pain, diarrhea, dysmenorrhea and other deficiency cold diseases, taking ginseng, astragalus, cinnamon, aconite, clove, Alpinia officinarum isotherm tonic drugs and Cinnamon Twig, dried ginger, asarum isotherm meridians dispersing cold herbs, mung bean should be fasted to prevent cold or weaken the curative effect of warm tonic herbs.

Second: up to now, there is no exact and scientific research result that mung bean can make a certain western medicine ineffective. If it is necessary to say that mung bean has incompatibility with some drugs, it can only be proved from the chemical composition and pharmacological effect of mung bean. For example, mung bean protein, tannins and flavonoids in mung bean can combine with organophosphorus pesticides, mercury, arsenic and lead compounds to form sediment, which can reduce or lose toxicity and is not easy to be absorbed by gastrointestinal tract. Therefore, patients with pesticide poisoning and heavy metal poisoning can take mung bean soup or raw mung bean powder to detoxify.

Third: similarly, drugs with alkaloids (such as ephedrine, anisodamine, morphine, caffeine, etc.) and metal ions as active ingredients (such as vitamin B12, calcium preparation, iron preparation, etc.) can combine with the ingredients in mung bean to form insoluble substances, which is not conducive to the absorption of drugs, and can be understood as reducing the efficacy of these drugs. Otherwise, mung bean can only be regarded as a general protein food, and there is no incompatibility with most drugs. When taking these drugs, if there is no cold syndrome forbidden by mung bean, mung bean can be eaten at the same time.

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According to traditional Chinese medicine, mung bean is cool in nature and sweet in taste. It has the functions of clearing away heat and toxin, relieving heat and trouble, relieving thirst and strengthening stomach. From the perspective of dietotherapy, the natural properties of food, such as warm, cold and so on, should be consistent with the physical condition of the eater in order to play a role in health care. Drink mung bean soup precautions, let's have a look.