The benefits of mung bean porridge

Mung bean porridge refers to porridge made by mixing mung beans and rice as the main ingredients. Mung beans are a common grain, cold in nature and sweet in taste. They have the effects of clearing away heat and detoxifying, reducing fire and relieving summer heat, and are very suitable for consumption in summer. Mung beans are also rich in protein, vitamins and trace elements, have very high nutritional value, and are a very healthy natural food.

Mung beans are rich in nutrients, and can increase appetite, lower blood lipids, lower cholesterol, resist allergies, detoxify, and protect the liver; they are sweet, cool in nature, and enter the heart and stomach meridians; they have the effects of clearing away heat and detoxifying, relieving summer heat and relieving restlessness, quenching thirst and strengthening the stomach, and promoting diuresis and reducing swelling; they are mainly used to treat summer heat and thirst, damp-heat diarrhea, edema and abdominal distension, sores and swelling, erysipelas, furunculosis, mumps, pox, and poisoning by metal, stone, arsenic, and plants. Mung beans are cold in nature, so people with weak constitutions should not eat too much or for a long time, and those with spleen and stomach deficiency and diarrhea should be careful when eating them.

According to traditional Chinese medicine, mung beans are sweet and cool in nature, enter the heart and stomach meridians, have the functions of clearing away heat and relieving summer heat, promoting urination and detoxification, and reducing swelling. They are a good product for relieving summer heat and restlessness, clearing heat and promoting body fluid. The Compendium of Materia Medica says that it "treats acne and swelling, and is an important food medicine; it can relieve all kinds of poisons from metal, stone, arsenic, and plants... It is really a good grain for the world." The Food and Drug Mirror says that it "clears fire and resolves phlegm, treats carbuncle, acne, and rottenness, and it harmonizes the five internal organs when eaten, calms the spirit, replenishes vitality, moisturizes the skin, clears heat and detoxifies." The Materia Medica Seeking Truth says that "mung beans are sweet and cold in nature, and taking them is good at detoxification, so all carbuncle and other symptoms can be cured by using this." The Daily Materia Medica says that it "relieves all kinds of heat, replenishes qi, and relieves all kinds of poisons from alcohol and food." The "Food and Materia Medica" says that it can be used as a pillow to improve eyesight. Pharmacological analysis shows that mung beans can prevent experimental atherosclerosis and increase blood lipids in rabbits, and can also rapidly reduce elevated blood lipids. Its extract has obvious detoxification and liver protection effects. In addition, mung bean skin has a good inhibitory effect on staphylococci. In the hot summer season, when the heat is fumigating and sweating, eating mung bean porridge regularly can not only replenish the nutrients lost by the human body, but also fill the stomach and prevent diseases. As the "Compendium of Materia Medica" says: "Mung bean porridge: detoxifies and relieves thirst."