How much do you really know about mung beans with the same origin of medicine and food?

Mung beans, also known as green adzuki beans, wild beans, planted beans and so on. Named for its turquoise color. Its taste is sweet and cold. Entering the heart and stomach meridian has the effects of clearing away heat and toxic materials and relieving summer heat. As Tang Sun Simiao said: "Mung beans can cure cold and heat, moderate heat, stop diarrhea and relieve urine fullness." Li Shizhen mentioned in Compendium of Materia Medica: "Mung beans are flat in meat and cold in skin, which can relieve various poisons such as stone, arsenic and vegetation. It is advisable to study it with skin and take it with water. " Small mung beans can cure the poison of heavy metal poisons such as stones and arsenic, which is almost incurable in ancient times, so it has been called "magic medicine" since ancient times. Compendium of Materia Medica records: "Mung beans are ground into flour, filtered to get powder, and used as bait to stew cakes." Mung bean has been an indispensable dish on people's table since ancient times, including mung bean soup, mung bean cake, mung bean porridge, mung bean cake and even mung bean wine.

Medicinal value:

1. summer heat: wash mung beans, add water to the pot, take soup when the fire is boiling, and don't eat it when it is cold. Too many rolls will make the color cloudy and unpalatable. (Mung Bean Soup of "Respecting the Holy Eight Tones")

2. Quench thirst: two liters of mung beans, net scouring, a bucket of water, boiling and grinding, filtering to get juice, and taking a small cup before eating in the morning and evening. (Biotechnology always records mung bean juice)

I can't pee. Leaching: a little adzuki bean and winter hemp seed (mashed, washed with two liters of water and squeezed into juice), aged orange peel (end). Boil orange peel and beans in winter hemp juice to make them hot. (Sheng Huifang)

4. Red dysentery will not heal after years: mung bean horns are steamed and eaten at will. Pujifang)

5. The child is swollen with fire: mung beans and rhubarb. Finally, mint honey is mixed with water. Pujifang)

6. Ulcer: adzuki bean, mung bean, black bean, Sichuan turmeric. Top with fine powder, do not initiate, mix ginger juice and essence water; It's already started, coated with honey and water. Pujifang)

7. Jinshidan is toxic to gunpowder, tobacco, alcohol and coal: one liter of mung bean, raw minced powder and two bowls of bean curd paste, mixed. There is no tofu paste at present, just warm it with glutinous rice. ("Materia Medica")

8. Aconitum poison: four or two mung beans, two or two raw licorice, and decoction. (Common Chinese herbal medicines in Shanghai)

Pharmacological research:

Mung beans contain protein, fat, carbohydrates, calcium, phosphorus, iron, phospholipids, protein, fat, carbohydrates, vitamins, carotene, nicotinic acid, folic acid and so on. It has the effects of reducing blood fat, cholesterol, antiallergic, antibacterial, anti-tumor, stimulating appetite and protecting liver and kidney.

1. Mung bean contains globulin and polysaccharide, which can promote the decomposition of cholesterol in animals into cholic acid in the liver, accelerate the secretion of bile salts and reduce the absorption of cholesterol in the small intestine, so it has obvious lipid-lowering effect;

2. The effective components of mung bean have antiallergic effect and can be used to treat allergic reactions such as urticaria;

3. Mung bean can inhibit staphylococcus;

4. protein and phospholipids contained in mung beans can excite nerves and stimulate appetite;

5. Mung bean is rich in trypsin inhibitor, which can protect the liver and reduce protein decomposition and azotemia, thus protecting the kidney.

Dietotherapy method:

1. Mung bean soup

Wash a proper amount of fresh mung beans, put them in a bowl, drown them with water, seal them with plastic wrap, and freeze them in the refrigerator for about 4 hours to make them bloom and keep the rustling taste. Choose a ceramic pot to boil water, add frozen mung beans after boiling, add a little rock sugar after boiling, and the sweet mung bean soup can be drunk.

2. Mung bean cake

First, the mung beans are cooked, dried, peeled and ground into mature mung bean powder. Then add sugar powder and sesame oil to the mold for molding, and add different fillings to get mung bean cakes with various flavors.

3. Mung bean porridge

Wash rice with water, remove impurities from mung beans, and wash with water. Put mung beans in a pot, add appropriate amount of water, bring to a boil with high fire, and simmer for about 40 minutes. When the mung bean is crisp and rotten, add rice and cook for about 30 minutes on medium heat until the rice grains bloom and the porridge soup is sticky. After cooling, add rock sugar and stir to eat.

Precautions:

1. Mung beans are cold, and people with yang deficiency, spleen and stomach deficiency and diarrhea should eat them carefully;

2. Avoid spleen and stomach deficiency;

3. Don't cook mung beans in an iron pot to avoid the soup turning black;

4. It is forbidden to eat with dog meat, purple rice, tomatoes, carp and torreya grandis. May cause adverse reactions such as food poisoning.