Mung bean (Lu Dou)

Indication du haricot mungo

• Reduces edema
• Lowers fever
• Diuretic effect
• Lowers blood pressure
• Lowers cholesterol and triglycerides
• Combats heat stroke
• Combats heat-induced stranguria, which manifests itself as short, frequent urination with a burning sensation.

Cleanses the skin during :

• Boils
• Anthrax
• Purulent acne
• Infectious dermatosis
• Folliculitis
• Erysipelas

In addition, it has very interesting properties as it is :

• an antidote for food poisoning
• an antidote for plant poisoning (such as wolfsbane, Brucea, fly agaric, etc.).

In addition, it helps eliminate toxicity :

• heavy metals such as lead, mercury, arsenic … but also zinc phosphide and carbon monoxide
• pesticides
• insecticides

Mung beans are therefore an excellent food for eliminating lead and other heavy metals, as well as the pesticides and insecticides that poison our lives.

Instructions for use and dosage

Soup/Decoction:

Rinse beans in cold water, then add 40g mung beans to 360ml water. Bring to the boil over high heat, then turn down to low and simmer for around 50 minutes. You know that mung beans are cooked when the skin bursts.

– For heat disorders such as heat stroke, fever… prepare mung beans without adding spices or condiments.

– To eliminate heavy metals, pesticides and insecticides, add garlic (which is also an antidote for lead poisoning) to mung beans at the end of cooking.
When the climate is cold, as in winter, add black pepper to the garlic, which should also be added at the end of cooking.

Combinations:

• Mung beans can be combined with dried mandarin peel to maintain bladder health after interstitial cystitis.
• They can be combined with Job’s tears for dermatitis and to reduce bruising and abnormal bleeding under the skin.
• In cases of food poisoning caused by plants, it is combined with licorice root.

Contraindication :

Mung beans should be strongly avoided by people with very weak digestion, chronic lower back pain, loose stools or diarrhoea.