What functions and indications does mung bean and licorice soup include

Whenever summer comes, people will feel very hot, and at this time they want to drink a bowl of mung bean soup, which has a very good effect of clearing away heat and detoxifying. However, as more and more people are paying attention to their health, they often add some licorice to the mung bean soup, which becomes a bowl of mung bean and licorice soup. This soup is rich in nutritional value and has a very good detoxification effect. If people have symptoms of heatstroke, they can take this soup to relieve the symptoms.

Frequent consumption of mung bean and licorice decoction is a commonly used detoxification recipe in traditional Chinese medicine. Mung bean is sweet, cold and non-toxic. It has the effects of cooling and quenching thirst, neutralizing and detoxifying. It is an excellent product for food poisoning, herb poisoning, and metal and stone medicine poisoning. "Compendium of Materia Medica" says: "The flesh of mung bean is mild and the skin is cold. It can detoxify all kinds of poisons such as metal, stone, arsenic, and plants. It is best to grind it with the skin on and take it with water." "Jingyue Complete Works" calls it "not bitter and cold in nature, does not hurt the spleen, and is good at detoxifying, relieving restlessness and fever, stopping diarrhea, and promoting urination. It is the best and quickest among all simple medicines." Raw licorice can purge heat and detoxify. "Bielu" says that it "detoxifies medicines" and "Compendium of Materia Medica" says it "can detoxify all kinds of poisons and is the key to all medicines." Experimental studies have shown that licorice contains glycyrrhizic acid and glycyrrhizin, which have a detoxifying effect similar to glucuronic acid on certain poisons. It also has effects similar to adrenal cortex hormones, and has many functions such as anti-inflammatory, anti-allergic, and detoxification. However, pesticide poisoning is a critical condition and should be treated with a combination of Chinese and Western medicine.

Indications

Clears away heat and detoxifies, relieves heat and relieves restlessness, quenches thirst and strengthens the stomach, promotes diuresis and reduces swelling. It is mainly used to treat summer heat and thirst, damp-heat diarrhea, edema and abdominal distension, sores, swelling and infection, erysipelas, furunculosis, mumps, smallpox, and poisoning by metal, stone, arsenic, and plants.

Clearing away heat

The heat-clearing power of mung bean lies in the skin, so in order to clear away heat, do not cook mung bean soup for too long. The mung bean soup cooked in this way is green and clear. There is no need to eat the beans when drinking it, and it can still achieve a good heat-clearing effect.

Detoxification

Mung beans have the function of detoxification, so in order to detoxify, it is best to cook the mung beans until they are soft when making mung bean soup. This kind of mung bean soup is turbid in color and has a poor effect in relieving heat, but it has a stronger effect in clearing heat and detoxifying.

Cool off

The therapeutic effect is better when mung beans are cooked with other foods, such as mung bean and honeysuckle soup: 100 grams of mung beans, 30 grams of honeysuckle, decocted in water and taken.

Boost metabolism

Mung bean seeds and decoction contain physiologically active substances such as bioalkali, coumarins, phytosterols, etc., which play an important role in promoting the physiological metabolic activities of humans and animals.

Ingredients: mung beans, barley rice, green plums, kumquat cakes, candied bergamot radish, Beijing cake strips, white sugar, lotus seeds in syrup, candied golden dates, sugar osmanthus, and roses. Preparation: First pick out the mung beans, then rinse them with water, put them in a basin, and steam them over high heat for about 30 minutes, until the mung beans are crispy. Wash the Job's tears and candied dates, put them into a small bowl and steam them at the same time as the beans. Then cut the green plums, kumquat cakes, bergamot radish, and Beijing cake strips into mung bean-sized cubes and divide them into 10 portions. Finally, place the pot on medium heat, add 1200 grams of boiling water and bring to a boil, sprinkle the steamed mung beans, coix seed rice, candied dates, 4 lotus seeds, chopped green plums and other fruit ingredients into the soup, then sprinkle the sugar osmanthus and rose petals evenly in each bowl.