Mung bean soup

Mung bean soup

Overview

Efficacy of mung beans: Mung beans are cool in nature and sweet in taste. Drinking them regularly can relieve heat and quench thirst. Because of its diuretic effect, drinking it after food or drug poisoning can also remove toxins from the body. It also has certain effects on heat swelling, hot thirst, dysentery, carbuncle, pox, macules, etc. Functions of mung bean soup 1. Detoxification: The heat-clearing power of mung beans lies in the skin, including the detoxification effect. Therefore, if you just want to cool off the heat, wash out the mung beans when making soup and boil them over high heat for about 10 minutes. Be careful not to cook them for a long time. The soup cooked in this way is green in color and relatively clear. There is no need to eat the beans together when drinking, as it can achieve a good cooling effect. If it is to clear away heat and detoxify, it is best to boil the beans. This kind of mung bean soup has a turbid color and poor heat-relieving effect, but it has a stronger heat-clearing and detoxifying effect. 2. Prevent heat stroke: Mung beans are more effective when cooked together with other foods. To prevent heat stroke, you can drink mung bean and silver flower soup: 100 grams of mung beans, 30 grams of honeysuckle, decoct in water and take. 3. Mung bean is a heat-clearing and detoxifying drug, which has pharmacological effects such as anti-inflammatory, sterilizing, and promoting phagocytosis: its seeds and water decoction contain physiologically active substances such as alkaloids, coumarins, and phytosterols, which play an important role in promoting the physiological metabolic activities of humans and animals. According to traditional Chinese medicine, mung beans, bean skins, bean sprouts, bean leaves and flowers can all be used as medicine.

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Steps

  1. Wash mung beans

    Mung bean soup step 1

  2. Put the mung beans into a ceramic pot and add 90% of water

    Mung bean soup step 2

  3. Place the ceramic pot into the stew pot

    Mung bean soup step 3

  4. Set time: simmer for 3 hours

    Mung bean soup step 4

  5. After simmering, add rock sugar

    Mung bean soup step 5

  6. It’s stewed and ready to eat

    Mung bean soup step 6