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Whenever the summer heat begins, many people's appetite will be affected, so they will choose refreshing mung bean soup as their daily meal. Mung bean is called "the good valley of the world" by Li Shizhen, it is rich in nutrition, the protein content is almost 3 times that of japonica rice, can make a variety of delicacies and summer heat.
In 2019, 66-year-old Jiang Lihong retired early to recuperate at home, and after entering the summer, the temperature gradually rose, and Jiang Lihong also suffered from constipation, because the stool was too dry and hard, and it was very laborious to go to the toilet every time. And Jiang Lihong found that when chatting with friends recently, they would cover their noses quietly, so Jiang Lihong blocked her hand in front of her mouth, and took a breath, and a smell rushed straight to her head.
At first, Jiang Lihong thought that she had a bad stomach and had stomach gas, until a week later, when she got up and yawned, she suddenly felt a tingling pain in her mouth, she pressed her tongue against the affected area, Jiang Lihong was trembling with pain. Thinking of these recent situations, she realized that she was only afraid that she was on fire.
In TCM theory, "Shanghuo" is a common concept that refers to the heat symptoms within the human body due to various reasons. Traditional Chinese medicine believes that there are two basic forces in the human body, yin and yang, which balance each other and maintain the health of the human body. When this balance is broken, especially when the "yin" in the body is insufficient, resulting in a relative excess of "yang", the symptoms of "fire" will appear.
The manifestations of fire can be broadly classified as redness, swelling, heat, pain, and annoyance, which are somewhat similar to inflammation in Western medicine. Stomach fire may cause stomach pain, dry stool, bad breath, etc., while lung fire can have hemoptysis, cough accompanied by yellow phlegm, liver fire will cause irritability, insomnia, women will have breast tenderness, heart fire will cause palpitations, insomnia, and upset.
Jiang Lihong felt the hot temperature, and immediately decided to buy some mung beans and come back to make soup and drink, which can not only solve the poor appetite, but also go to the fire by the way. In addition to the edible value of mung bean, the medicinal value is also very high, mung bean is cold, sweet, non-toxic, has the effect of clearing heat and detoxifying, dispelling heat and quenching thirst, diluting water and reducing swelling, brightening the eyes, beautifying the skin and nourishing the skin, can be used to treat summer heat and thirst, cold and fever, cholera vomiting and diarrhea, phlegm fever asthma, headache and eye redness, mouth and tongue sores, edema and less urine, sores and ulcers carbuncle rubella erysipelas, drugs and food poisoning and other diseases.
After drinking it for a week, Jiang Lihong's mouth sores have fully recovered, and the rest of the symptoms have returned to normal, so her diet has also returned to normal, and the situation of fire has not appeared again. A month later, Jiang Lihong's daughter specially arranged a physical examination for her mother, but Jiang Lihong was very resistant, she thought that the disease was all detected, and finally her daughter said that she finally agreed to go to the hospital.
After the results came out, the doctor was very shocked, Jiang Lihong was nearly 70 years old, but she had no underlying diseases at all, only triglycerides of 2.18mmol/L. The doctor said that it can only be counted as a mild increase, and you can try exercise or diet to control this indicator first, and if it is successfully reduced, then you don't need to take medicine for a long time.
After returning home, Jiang Lihong attached great importance to her physical condition, she participated in a lot of lectures on hyperlipidemia, and found that the mung bean soup she drank before also had the effect of lowering blood lipids. She thought that the worst outcome would be useless, and that this kind of food would never cause harm to her body, so she drank it for three months with the mentality of giving it a try. Surprisingly, the results of the re-examination three months later showed that Jiang Lihong's blood lipids really returned to normal values, but she had no other changes at all except for drinking a bowl of mung bean soup every morning and evening, and this experience also made her impressed by the efficacy of mung bean soup.
In order to maintain the blood lipid index within the normal range, Jiang Lihong has been insisting on taking mung bean soup, and the results of several reexaminations have also verified the correctness of her behavior, and mung bean soup has also become an indispensable food in Jiang Lihong's life. Half a year has passed quickly, perhaps because the amount of square dancing has been a bit heavy recently, Jiang Lihong often feels a faint pain in her knees, but after applying the plaster, the discomfort quickly disappeared, and Jiang Lihong didn't take it to heart.
On October 16, Jiang Lihong was immersed in a sweet dream, and was suddenly awakened by a sharp pain in her left knee. The husband next to him was also woken up, turned on the light and saw that Jiang Lihong's left knee had obvious redness, and the husband looked at Jiang Lihong's painful look and hurriedly sent her to the hospital.
Physical examination showed that the left knee joint was significantly swollen, the skin was red and shiny, and the tenderness was positive, the local skin temperature of the left knee joint was significantly increased, and the flexion and extension of the left knee joint was limited. The auxiliary examination showed that the blood routine white blood cells were 16*10^9/L, and the uric acid was 679μmol/L, and the clinical diagnosis was acute gouty arthritis (involving the left knee).
Jiang Lihong underwent oral medication and intravenous infusion under the doctor's advice, and the pain in her heart was finally relieved, and she finally understood what it was like to live rather than die. The doctor came over with Jiang Lihong's examination results and said that Jiang Lihong had suffered from hyperuricemia, and she must pay attention to her diet after that, otherwise gout may recur again at any time.
Jiang Lihong was so frightened that she broke out in a cold sweat, after all, having experienced gout once had made her unforgettable for life, and she couldn't withstand the second torture. Jiang Lihong hurriedly asked: "My last physical examination of uric acid was still normal, and it has only been half a year, why is it gout and high uric acid?" ”
The doctor knew that this kind of metabolic disease was usually related to diet, so he made a series of inquiries to Jiang Lihong, but unexpectedly found that Jiang Lihong did not touch such high-purine foods as wine, hot pot, broth, offal, seafood, etc., and there was no reason for this situation to suddenly appear in just half a year. Just as the doctor was thinking, Jiang Lihong suddenly spoke: "I've been drinking mung bean soup for half a year, will it have anything to do with this?" ”
When the doctor heard this, he hurriedly looked at the results of Jiang Lihong's last physical examination, and his eyes fell on a value, and he finally found the "culprit". The doctor sternly reminded: "Reasonable consumption of mung bean soup can indeed bring three irreplaceable benefits to our body, but you must not drink it in this case, causing gout is small, affecting the kidneys and causing kidney failure, but the gains outweigh the losses!" ”
Jiang Lihong had her first physical examination, and her blood uric acid value was already hovering on the edge of the normal value, and she was old and her metabolic ability had decreased a lot, so she had to pay more attention to the control of uric acid. Mung beans belong to the medium purine content (50 ~ 100 mg of purines per 100 grams), gout patients (especially related to joint inflammation) it is best to eat less, because uric acid is the end product of purine metabolism in the body.
Jiang Lihong will drink once or twice a day in order to control blood lipids, and over time, the uric acid in the body will gradually increase, which will eventually cause hyperuricemia and lead to gout. Therefore, in the case of an acute attack of gout, you must not drink mung bean soup, and you can usually drink it once or twice a week according to your own situation.
Modern pharmacology has confirmed that mung bean has antibacterial and antibacterial effects, and the bioactive substances contained in it such as coumarins, alkaloids, phytosterols, saponins, etc. can enhance the body's immune function. Hydroalcoholic extract has a significant effect on reducing serum cholesterol, which is also the reason why Jiang Lihong's blood lipids have been well controlled after drinking mung bean soup.
The phenylalanine aminolytic enzyme extracted has a significant inhibitory effect on leukemia cells, and the proteins, tannins and flavonoids contained in it can be combined with organophosphorus pesticides, mercury, arsenic, and lead compounds to form precipitates, so that they can reduce or lose their toxicity and are not easily absorbed by the gastrointestinal tract. In addition, it contains a considerable amount of oligosaccharides (pentosan, galactan, etc.), which can improve the intestinal flora, reduce the absorption of harmful substances, and have the effect of preventing certain cancers.
In addition to people with high uric acid and gout patients, the following situations should not drink too much mung bean soup.
1. Weak constitution and cold spleen and stomach
Mung bean is cold, has a lot of protein, and people with weak constitution and weak spleen and stomach have poor digestive function, and it is difficult to digest mung bean protein in a short time, which is easy to cause diarrhea due to indigestion and even reduce the immunity of the digestive system.
2. Take warm Chinese medicine
As mentioned earlier, mung beans have cold medicinal properties, which can relieve the medicinal properties of warm and hot Chinese medicine, and eating mung beans while drinking Chinese medicine will reduce the efficacy of the medicine. Therefore, it is best not to take warm Chinese medicine.
3. Pregnant women
The lysine, protein, vitamins, calcium, zinc and other ingredients contained in mung bean can effectively prevent and treat edema of pregnancy, and it is a good food therapy. However, it is cold, and pregnant women should not drink too much, otherwise their physique may be negatively affected during pregnancy.
(Note: "A 66-year-old woman drinks mung bean soup every day, and after half a year, she goes for a physical examination, and the doctor wonders: What do you usually do?") The names of the people are pseudonyms, and some of the pictures are network pictures; Reprinting and plagiarism are prohibited in the article)