Can you drink green bean soup with wind cold and flu?

Green bean soup is generally not recommended for wind-cold flu.
Wind-cold cold refers to the common cold caused by external wind-cold, and patients may have symptoms such as severe cold (fear of cold), mild fever, headache, sneezing, nasal congestion and runny nose, and aching limbs, etc. Mung bean soup is made from the Chinese herb mung bean.
Mung bean soup is made from the Chinese herbal medicine mung bean boiled, mung bean has the effect of clearing heat and detoxification, transforming dampness and inducing diuresis, and is suitable for summer heat and thirst, dysentery, dengteng (acute infectious disease, visible redness of the skin like paint), carbuncle, edema and so on.
Mung beans are sweet, cool in nature, attributed to the heart, stomach meridian, and patients with wind-heat cold have symptoms such as fear of cold and fear of cold, so mung bean soup is not suitable for patients with wind-cold cold.
In the treatment of wind-cold cold, the method of pungent and warm relief of the epidermis is often used to promote the lungs and dispel cold, in order to get rid of the external evil, such as Pueraria Mirifica soup, ephedra soup, etc. In addition, the soup should be served hot, and attention should be paid to rest, warmth, and increase the amount of drinking water, in order to facilitate sweating and urination, and to promote recovery of the disease.
It is recommended that patients with wind-cold flu should consult a doctor in time and under the guidance of a professional Chinese medicine practitioner for standardized treatment.