Effects of Mung Bean and Red Date Soup

The main ingredients of Mung Bean and Red Date Soup include mung beans and red dates, which have certain effects of clearing heat and relieving summer heat, nourishing blood and tranquilizing the mind. 1. Mung bean is the seed of mung bean of cowpea plant of legume family, with sweet taste and cold nature, which belongs to heart, liver and stomach meridians. Its effects are clearing away heat, eliminating summer heat, inducing diuresis and detoxification. It is used for the treatment of summer heat and thirst, cold and fever, cholera, vomiting and diarrhea, phlegm heat and asthma, headache and eye redness, mouth and tongue sores, edema and urination, rubella and dengue (acute infectious diseases, the skin can be seen as red like paint) and other diseases. 2. Red dates are sweet in flavor and warm in nature. It belongs to the spleen, stomach and heart meridians. Its effects are tonifying the middle Jiao (treating Qi deficiency by tonifying the spleen), nourishing the blood and tranquilizing the mind. It is used in the treatment of weak spleen qi (weak spleen qi), lethargy, and loose stools (scanty and unformed feces). Its adverse effects are not clear. The active ingredients in the medicinal diet have limited effects and should not be used as a substitute for medication. If you need to drink it, it is recommended to go to the hospital and use it under the diagnosis and analysis of a professional physician.