Medicinal dietary therapy of mung bean

Mung beans will turn black after being boiled in an iron pan; apples and pears will turn black after being cut with an iron knife. This is because the cells of mung beans, apples, pears and many kinds of fruits all contain tannin, which can react with iron to produce black iron tannate. When mung beans are boiled in an iron pan, some black iron tannate will be produced, so it will turn black. Sometimes, even if the pears and persimmons are not cut with an iron knife, there will be some black mottles on the skin. This is because the tannic acid molecule contains many phenolic hydrocarbon groups, which are sensitive to light and are easily oxidized by oxygen in the air. Black oxide.

1. Mung bean soup: Wash the mung beans, increase the fire and boil for 10 minutes, take the soup cold and eat it for detoxification and clearing away heat (note that it should not be cooked for a long time).

2. Mung bean milk: 1500 grams of mung beans, washed clean, 2500 ml of water, boiled and grind carefully, clarified and filtered to obtain the juice, sooner or later, take a small cup before eating to cure thirst and frequent urination.

3. Mung Bean Yinhua Soup: 100 grams of mung beans, 30 grams of honeysuckle, decocted in water, used to prevent heat stroke in summer.

4. Raw mung bean flour: 50 grams of raw mung bean, ground powder, 9 grams each time, swallow with boiling water. Cure breast sores.

5. Relieve heat: mung beans, boil in water and boil, take the soup to stop the cold color and eat it. ("Zunsheng Eight Notes" Mung Bean Soup)

6. ​​Treating impaired urination and dripping: 50 grams of mung beans, 30 grams of winter mochi (for the juice), 10 grams of tangerine peel (for the end), cooked and hot food together ("Sheng Hui Fang")

7. Treatment of Aconitum poisoning: 120 grams of mung beans, 60 grams of raw licorice, decocted in water and drinking juice ("Commonly used Chinese herbal medicine in Shanghai").

8. Treating Jinshidan gunpowder poison and alcohol poisoning, smoke poisoning, coal poisoning: 100 grams of mung bean (for the end), 2 bowls of tofu milk, and take it. If there is no tofu milk, glutinous rice can be used for simmering and warming ("Materia Medica").

9. Cure food poisoning and poisoning by aconite, croton, arsenic, pesticides, and weeds: 50 grams of mung beans, 100 grams of japonica rice, cooking porridge in total. Take cold 2-3 times a day (Mung Bean Congee in "Grand View of Chinese Medicinal Diet").

10. Treatment of mumps: 60g raw mung beans, cook until they are cooked, like 2-3 cabbage hearts, cook for about 20 minutes, take the juice and take it 1-2 times a day ("Chinese Medicine Dictionary")

11. Treatment of subacute rash and itchy skin: 30 grams of mung beans, 50 grams of water-fat kelp, appropriate brown sugar, and appropriate glutinous rice. Boil mung beans and glutinous rice into porridge, add chopped kelp, cook for 3 minutes and add brown sugar ("Chinese Medicinal Diet").

12. Red dysentery does not heal for a long time; mung bean noodles are boiled and eat freely.

13. Black beans, croton, aconite, lead poisoning: 120g mung beans, 60g raw licorice, decoction in water once.