Whether or not you can consume mung bean soup when taking medication depends on the nature of the potency of the medication used. Mung beans have the effect of clearing heat and detoxification (removing heat and toxicity from the body), and in Chinese medicine, they are cool drugs, so if the effects of the drugs are conflicting, they cannot be taken together. Mung beans can be used in both medicine and food, from the Chinese medicine point of view, mung beans is a heat detoxification drugs, if you eat the medicine itself is heat detoxification, this time in the absence of contraindications is possible to take mung bean soup at the same time. Mung bean detoxification effect principle is mung bean in the protein will combine with heavy metals, organic phosphorus, etc., the resulting conjugate is not easy to be absorbed by the gastrointestinal tract, through the digestive tract out of the body, and then achieve the effect of detoxification. So when taking drugs containing metal ions, such as iron, calcium, etc., try not to drink mung bean soup to avoid affecting the absorption of drugs. If the patient has heat stroke, constipation, sore throat and other symptoms of fire, in the absence of contraindications to the same medication, you can drink mung bean soup in moderation, mung beans can eliminate heat and detoxification.