When the heat comes, folk have always had the custom of drinking mung bean soup to beat the heat. Mung beans are cool and sweet in nature, with the effect of clearing heat and detoxifying the body, eliminating summer heat, quenching thirst and strengthening the stomach. Drinking a bowl of sweet and cool mung bean soup can prevent heat stroke, clear heat and detoxification, therefore, mung bean soup has become quite popular among the people’s favorite summer drink. The power of mung beans to clear heat is in the skin, and the detoxifying power is inside. If you just want to beat the heat, cook the soup by panning the green beans and boiling them over high heat for about 10 minutes. The soup so boiled out, the color of turquoise, clear and attractive. If you want to detoxify the body, it is best to boil the green beans. This is a muddy color, less effective in reducing the heat, but very strong in clearing the heat and detoxifying effect. The best thing is that not everyone is good with it. Although mung bean soup has the effect of eliminating summer heat and benefit, but the following four kinds of people are not suitable for drinking: cold body people (such as cold limbs and weakness, cold pain in the waist and legs, diarrhea and thinning) These people have no heat in the body, but eating mung beans will aggravate the symptoms of cold limbs, and even cause other diseases. The elderly, children and other physically weak people mung beans contain very high protein, and chicken, is three times the japonica rice. Mung beans contain large molecules of protein, which need to be converted into small molecules of peptides and amino acids under the action of enzymes in order to be absorbed by the body. The elderly, children and other gastrointestinal digestive function is relatively poor, it is difficult to digest the protein in mung beans in a short time, easy to cause diarrhea due to indigestion. People who are taking medicine As mung beans have detoxifying effects, so if the drugs taken contain organic phosphorus, calcium, potassium and other ingredients, mung beans will combine with these ingredients to form precipitates, thus breaking down the effectiveness of the medicine and affecting the treatment. Especially if you are taking some warm Chinese medicine, you should not eat mung beans, so as not to reduce the effectiveness of the medicine. However, some herbal medicines to clear heat and fire, such as Huang Lian, Scutellaria baicalensis, Huang Bai, Da Qing Ye, Pan Lan Gen, Niu Huang, Jin Yin Hua, etc., and mung bean soup (porridge) or mung bean cake, can play a complementary role, to achieve twice the effect with half the effort. Menstruating women Their bodies are in a state of blood loss and deviations, and then eat cold food, easy to hurt the spleen and stomach. Many people like to put the good mung bean soup in the refrigerator and take it out when drinking, the taste is cold. In fact, mung bean soup should not be drunk chilled, otherwise it will cause imbalance of the spleen and stomach and diarrhea. People with a weak spleen and stomach do not necessarily have to choose to drink mung bean soup, they can choose to eat mung bean porridge. The practice of mung bean porridge is to boil rice or millet and mung beans in a pot with water at the same time to make a porridge, rice and millet have a tonic effect on the spleen and stomach.