Mung beans - a cooling and detoxifying food.

Mung beans can detoxify hundreds of things, cool the body and liver, improve eyesight, lower blood pressure, and nourish the stomach...

The sweltering summer weather can cause fatigue, discomfort, and even heatstroke, leading to illness. Besides escaping the heat in air-conditioned rooms or swimming pools, several ways to prepare mung beans not only help you cool down effectively this summer but are also used for beauty and health benefits.

Traditional Chinese medicine holds that mung beans are sweet, slightly fishy in taste, cold in nature, non-toxic, nourish vital energy, clear heat and cool the liver, detoxify various poisons, can cleanse and cool the urine, treat ulcers, brighten the eyes, moisten the throat, lower blood pressure, cool the gallbladder, nourish the stomach, stop diarrhea, and are suitable for patients with sunstroke, thirst, fever, damp heat, boils, smallpox, and blurred vision.

Here are some "remedies" using mung beans:

- Mung bean porridge is one of the common dishes that helps detoxify the body, eliminate and prevent heatstroke, quench thirst, and prevent and treat high blood cholesterol.

- Mung bean soup has detoxifying, cooling, thirst-quenching, and diuretic effects, making it suitable for children with poor appetite due to hot weather and impaired lung and stomach function.

Mung bean porridge helps prevent heatstroke and quench thirst. (Photo: Hong Thuy)

- Drinking a strong decoction of mung bean husks is very effective in treating sunstroke.

- For travelers who suddenly faint or suffer from a stroke; or who have eaten food of unknown origin or expired while traveling on an empty stomach: Put 20g of raw mung beans into 30ml of boiling water, after 5 minutes remove the beans, crush them, and squeeze out the juice to drink.

- For both men and women with high body temperature due to weather changes, jaundice, and edema, an effective, quick, and inexpensive treatment is to use:

Roast 50g of mung beans (with hulls), 20g of dried yellow chrysanthemum flowers, 3g of white salt, and 35g of granulated sugar in 500ml of water until only 200ml remains. Add 50g of young mulberry leaves and 20g of jasmine buds (purchased from a traditional Chinese medicine shop). Boil until concentrated (only 10-20ml of liquid remains). Consume 3 times a day for 7 consecutive days for best results.

- Elderly and obese individuals with indigestion, frequent blood pressure spikes, stagnant blood and energy leading to weakness, and a lack of probiotics to boost vitality should use the following prescription: Buy 2 kg of bean sprouts (made from whole mung beans, if processed).

The more favorable the conditions, the less efficient the sprouting of soybeans or other beans. Because sprouts contain a lot of water, are rich in vitamins A, E, C, B1, B6, B12, minerals like iron and copper, carbohydrates, phosphorus, and especially many different enzymes. Bean sprouts can be used to make the following dishes:

300g bean sprouts, 5ml fresh lemon juice, sugar, black peppercorns, 3 cloves of crushed garlic, 3g thinly sliced ​​ginger, seasoning powder, 5g ripe red tomatoes, 5g roasted peanuts (crushed). Mix all ingredients together to make a bean sprout salad cocktail. Let it sit for 10 minutes before eating. Consume for two days, at lunch and dinner.

- For women aged 40 and above, skin easily loses elastin and collagen, leading to discoloration, dark spots, and a less smooth and rosy complexion: Eat this every day.

Mix 250g of mung bean sprouts with 10ml of fermented vinegar (sprout sprouts are rich in vitamin C).

- For teenage girls with dry skin and acne due to dehydration, high-fat diet, bloating, and constipation: Consume 250g of washed and mashed bean sprouts daily, mixed with 15ml of fresh bitter gourd juice (made from mashed and squeezed fresh bitter melon). Mix well to obtain the active omega-3 and omega-6 fatty acids (commonly used in cosmetics). Divide into two portions; consume one portion and refrigerate the other. Apply as a face mask 60 minutes before bedtime, leaving it on for 20-25 minutes (remove the mask without rinsing), once every evening for two weeks. This will reduce dryness, cracking, acne, rough patches, and wrinkles.

Note the precautions to take.Eating dog meat with mung beans will cause bloating.

According to Alobacsi.vn