🌿 Summer Mung Bean Dietary Therapy
Mung beans are cool in nature and sweet in taste, entering the heart and stomach meridians, with functions of clearing heat and detoxifying, quenching thirst, cooling summer heat, and promoting urination. Common mung bean dietary prescriptions include:
Mung Bean Honeysuckle Soup: 100 grams mung beans, 30 grams honeysuckle. Boil beans first, then add honeysuckle. Eat beans and drink soup—prevents and treats heatstroke, prickly heat, and boils.
Mung Bean Loofah Flower Drink: 50 grams mung beans, 8 fresh loofah flowers. Cook mung beans until soft, then add loofah flowers and simmer briefly. Eat beans and drink soup—prevents and treats heatstroke.
Mung Bean Jellyfish Soup: 50 grams mung beans, 50 grams jellyfish. Boil both ingredients into soup. Internal consumption cools heat, lowers blood pressure, and relieves cough and wheezing.
Mung Bean Chinese Cabbage Soup: 100 grams mung beans, 2 cabbage hearts. Boil mung beans until soft, then add cabbage hearts and cook for another 15 minutes. Drink the juice twice daily—effective for initial stage of mumps.
Mung Bean Sophora Soup: 20 grams mung beans, 10 grams burdock seed, 10 grams sophora root, 15 grams fresh lotus leaf. Decoct into soup, use internally and externally. Treats children’s prickly heat and boils.
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