Health benefits of mung bean sprouts

　　Traditional Chinese medicine believes that mung bean sprouts are cool in nature and sweet in taste. They can not only clear away heat, clear the meridians and detoxify, but can also regulate the five internal organs, beautify the skin, and relieve dampness and heat. constipate Patients with knots, difficulty urinating, red and swollen eyes, and sores in the mouth and nose.

　　Utilizing these pharmacological effects of mung bean sprouts, many dietary prescriptions can be made to treat common diseases:

　　Blanch mung bean sprouts in boiling water, add soy sauce and vinegar and eat them cold to sober up and detoxify.

　　Stewing mung bean sprouts with crucian carp can cure lactation problems

　　Take an appropriate amount of mung bean sprouts and winter melon peel, add vinegar to make soup and drink it, which can prevent and treat excessive thirst during summer heat.

　　Take 100 grams of mung bean sprouts, 1 pig heart, a little salt, and 20 grams of tangerine peel, add water and stew until cooked, eat the meat and drink the soup, which can treat bronchitis.

　　Mash mung bean sprouts and squeeze into juice, add an appropriate amount of sugar, and drink it instead of tea. It has auxiliary effects on urinary tract infections, red and hot urine, frequent urination, etc.

　　Take 100 grams of mung bean sprouts, 1 pig tripe, and 100 grams of dandelion, add water and cook until thoroughly cooked. Eat the pork tripe and mung bean sprouts and drink the soup to treat stomach pain.

　　There are two things you need to pay attention to when cooking mung bean sprouts. First, do not add alkali when cooking mung bean sprouts, because alkali can destroy vitamins, carotene and other nutrients in mung bean sprouts. Second, there is no need to remove the mung bean skin. Mung bean skin is called mung bean skin in traditional Chinese medicine and has a stronger heat-clearing and detoxifying effect than mung beans.

　　Taboo: Mung bean sprouts grown with chemical fertilizers cannot be eaten. Because chemical fertilizers contain nitrogen compounds, they can be converted into nitrosamines under the action of bacteria and are present in mung bean sprouts. Nitrosamines can cause stomach cancer , esophageal cancer, liver cancer, etc. On the other hand, mung bean sprouts are cold food. Eating too much can easily damage gastric qi, and they contain crude fiber, which can easily speed up intestinal peristalsis and cause gastrointestinal irritation. diarrhea . Therefore, patients with chronic enteritis, chronic gastritis and indigestion should not eat too much.