Daily Health Regimen Q&A Weight loss

Why you can’t eat mung beans to lose weight

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Asked on:Apr 17, 2026 11:30 AM

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    Apr 17, 2026

    You can eat mung beans during the weight loss period. Mung beans have the effect of clearing away heat and dampness, dispersing blood and detoxifying. It can effectively speed up the discharge of waste in the human body, promote the metabolism of waste in the gastrointestinal tract, reduce blood pressure and blood sugar, and thus have the effect of losing weight. From a pharmacological perspective, the cellulose in mung beans increases satiety, reduces the intake of other foods, and replenishes a variety of minerals needed by the body. However, it should be noted that excessive intake of mung beans may cause diarrhea, so it is recommended to take it appropriately.

    The medicinal value of red beans is:

    It can clear away heat and remove internal heat, strengthen the spleen and stomach, facilitate urination and reduce swelling, ventilate and relieve troubles, etc. It can treat diseases such as poor urination, spleen deficiency, edema, and athlete's foot. Taking red beans and crucian carp soup as a dietary therapy can treat edema, athlete's foot, difficulty urinating, etc. It can also treat liver cirrhosis, liver ascites, and replenish qi and blood deficiency. ; The juice obtained by boiling red beans and watermelon together is a top-quality dietary therapy for relieving systemic edema. ; Boiling red beans with snow peas and coix seeds can treat diarrhea.

    In addition, red beans can also be used together with Chinese medicinal materials. For example, red beans combined with lotus root and chuanxiong decoction can treat liver abscesses.; Decoction of red beans with dandelion flowers and licorice can treat intestinal pain. The nutritional content of red beans is similar to that of mung beans, and even exceeds that of mung beans in some ingredients. Therefore, eating more red beans is of great benefit to the human body. The functions of mung beans are: clearing away heat and removing internal heat, quenching thirst and promoting urination, reducing swelling and itching, astringent and removing toxins, clearing eyes and removing nebula, and relieving all kinds of poisoning.

    Common ancestral secret recipes for treating mung bean diseases:

    1. Treat prickly heat itching: use mung beans, lotus leaves, rock sugar, and soup to combine with food; Applying cooked mung beans externally to the injured area has a significant effect of reducing itching and swelling. 2. Treat eczema and dermatitis: Mix mung bean powder with a small amount of camphor and apply it externally. 3. Treat brown spots on the face: Eat mung beans and lilies regularly to dissipate them. 4. Treat mumps: 60 grams of mung beans, 2 cabbage hearts.

    Boil the water and drink the soup, 2 times a day. 5. Treat burns: 60 grams of mung bean powder, pure grain wine, mix to a thick consistency, 3 grams of camphor, mix evenly. For external use on injured areas, 2 times a day. 6. Relieve food poisoning: Keep drinking mung bean soup until the poison is resolved. 7. To treat blurred vision: use 15 grams of mung bean peel, decoct it in water and take it. 8. To treat headaches and blurry eyes: Use mung beans as pillow core and it will be effective in a few days.

    Reference to other secret recipes: 1. 60 grams of mung beans and 60 grams of raw licorice, decoction in water and taken, can relieve food and drug poisoning. 2. 60 grams of mung beans and 30 grams of honeysuckle tea, decoction in water can prevent summer symptoms. 3. Grind 30 grams of mung beans into powder, take 10 grams each time, swallow with boiling water to treat breast sores, boils, swelling and pain. 4. Grind raw mung beans into powder and mix with white vinegar to apply on the injured area to treat mumps and bruises.