What are the effects of mung beans and red beans?

In Compendium of Materia Medica, the official name of red bean is "adzuki bean". In traditional medicine, red beans are mainly used for promoting blood circulation to remove edema, benefiting qi to remove beriberi and strengthening the spleen. In ancient books, cooked red beans and carp are of great help to improve edema and beriberi of pregnant women in the third trimester of pregnancy. In addition, red beans can also clear away heat and detoxify.

Nutritional value:

Red beans are rich in vitamins B 1, B2, protein and various minerals, and have the functions of enriching blood, diuresis, detumescence and promoting heart activation.

In addition, its fiber helps to excrete salt, fat and other wastes in the body, which has a great effect on stovepipe.

Red beans can replenish blood, but there are many reasons for anemia. If it is caused by the lack of vitamin B 12, eating red beans is very limited.

Doctors believe that mung beans are cool and sweet, and have the effects of clearing away heat and toxic materials, quenching thirst and relieving summer heat, diuresis and moistening skin. Mung bean soup is a well-known summer drink. Another important medicinal value of mung bean is detoxification. Li Shizhen once pointed out: Mung beans, with flat meat and cold skin, can relieve the poison of stones, arsenic and plants. Vitamins contained in mung beans can help dilute melanin.

Eating more mung bean soup in daily diet has certain lead poisoning effect. In addition, mung beans also contain ingredients for lowering blood pressure and blood lipid. Patients with hyperlipidemia eat 50 grams of mung beans every day, and the reduction rate of serum cholesterol reaches 70%.

Summer heat is prevalent, and mung bean soup is a traditional remedy for summer heat in China. Chinese medicine believes that mung bean has the effects of relieving summer heat and benefiting qi, clearing away heat and toxic materials, moistening throat and quenching thirst, and can prevent heatstroke and treat food poisoning.

However, nutritionists remind people that although most people can safely drink mung bean soup without too many taboos, people with weak constitution should not drink too much. From the perspective of traditional Chinese medicine, patients with cold syndrome should not drink too much. Because mung beans have the function of detoxification, people who are taking Chinese medicine should not drink too much.