Aconite and Mung Bean Soup This recipe has been passed down for thousands of years, which is why it has been able to survive to this day and is still widely used in traditional Chinese medicine. Today, I will introduce it to you.
[Ingredients]
1 piece of aconite (weighing 7 qian, raw, peeled and half broken), 2 liang of mung beans.
[Functions and Indications]
Coldness that restricts the skin, hardness and firmness, abdominal distension and body swelling, pressing but not rising, no change in color.
[Usage and Dosage]
Take 1 liang of fresh ginger (cut), 2 bowls of water, boil until 1 bowl remains, strain out the residue, divide into 3 doses, take on an empty stomach. On the next day, break the previous aconite into 4 pieces, then use 2 liang of mung beans and 1 liang of fresh ginger, and prepare as before. On the third day, break the aconite into 8 pieces, and prepare as before.
[Description of Medicinal Materials]
Aconite: Rescues yang and reverses collapse, strengthens fire and assists yang, dispels cold and eliminates dampness. Used to treat excessive yin and deficient yang, loss of yang due to profuse sweating, vomiting and diarrhea, cold pain in the chest and abdomen, cold diarrhea due to spleen deficiency, edema in children, wind-cold dampness bi syndrome, sprains, impotence, cold uterus, ulcers, and all diseases caused by deep cold and chilliness.
Fresh ginger: In hot weather, it has the functions of stimulation, sweating, cooling, and refreshing. It can relieve fatigue, weakness, loss of appetite, insomnia, abdominal distension, and abdominal pain. Fresh ginger also has the function of invigorating the stomach and improving appetite. In hot summer weather, saliva and ginger can also relieve or alleviate stomach pain.
Mung beans: Mung beans are cool in nature and sweet in taste. Drinking them regularly can relieve heat and quench thirst. Due to their diuretic and gas-reducing effects, drinking mung beans after food or drug poisoning can help eliminate toxins from the body. They also have certain therapeutic effects on heat swelling, heat thirst, heat dysentery, carbuncle, smallpox, and rash.
[Nutritional Value]
1. The protein and phospholipids in mung beans have the function of stimulating nerves and improving appetite, providing necessary nutrition for many important organs of the body;
2. The polysaccharides in mung beans can enhance the activity of serum lipoprotein lipase, hydrolyze triglycerides in lipoproteins, and achieve the effect of lowering blood lipids, thus preventing and treating coronary heart disease and angina pectoris;
3. Mung beans contain a globulin and polysaccharides that can promote the decomposition of cholesterol into bile acids in the liver, accelerate the secretion of bile salts in bile, and reduce the absorption of cholesterol in the small intestine;
4. According to clinical experiments, the active ingredients in mung beans have anti-allergic effects and can treat urticaria and other diseases;
5. Mung beans have inhibitory effects on Staphylococcus aureus and certain viruses, and can clear heat and detoxify;
6. Mung beans contain abundant trypsin inhibitors, which can protect the liver, reduce protein breakdown, and thus protect the kidneys.
