Many people say that eating green bean porridge is very good for cooling down and sobering up, is that true? (Hau, 29 years old, Ho Chi Minh City)
Reply:
Green beans are very familiar to Vietnamese people. This is not only a delicious and nutritious food but can also be considered a medicine used by our grandparents since ancient times.
Green beans can be considered a cold medicine, with the effect of clearing heat and eliminating toxins in the body. According to Traditional Medicine, alcohol is a very hot beverage, when consumed it will burn the Middle Burner, thereby causing many different diseases related to heat accumulation in the spleen and stomach.
To sober up, our people have relied on the cooling ability of mung beans to eliminate the toxic heat accumulated by alcohol.
The green bean porridge recipe uses green beans cooked with porridge because porridge has the ability to strengthen the spleen and stomach, restoring the function of the spleen and stomach after parties with lots of fatty, sweet, spicy foods.
In addition to its hangover-relieving properties, mung beans are used by folk as a food to reduce inflammation and treat acne. Mung bean dessert is delicious, nutritious, and cools the body on hot summer days. Mung beans can be combined with other foods that are also cold in nature to increase the heat-clearing and detoxifying effect such as pennywort and coconut water.
Although green beans have many uses, they should not be overused. People with weak spleen and stomach with symptoms such as being prone to cold stomach, indigestion when eating cold raw foods should not overuse green beans. Especially when eating cold foods such as shrimp, crab, snails, eel, melons... with green beans will cause the meal to lose the balance of yin and yang, which can cause indigestion, cold, fullness, and stomachache in people with weak spleen and stomach.
MSc. Dr. Nguyen Trong Tin
Ho Chi Minh City University of Medicine and Pharmacy Hospital - Facility 3
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