Vigna radiata, Phaseolus mungo, P. radiatus   绿 豆 Lǜ dòu   Green mung bean   Family: Leguminosae  
绿 豆 Lǜ dòu   Mung bean- harvested after the Autumn equinox when ripe.    
Nature: cool     FLAVOR: Sweet   CHANNEL: Heart, Stomach
FUNCTIONS
GROUP: Clearing Internal Heat- Clearing Summer Heat
1. Clear away Heat,[3,4] and Toxins.[3,4] Stop Summer Heat rising in body.[4]
2. Promote diuresis. Promote urination.[3] Stop thirst.[4]
3. Relieve metallic and drug poisoning. Antidote to Aconitum carmichaeli- Fu zi and Vicia faba- fava beans.[5]
4. External use for clearing away Heat and promoting tissue regeneration.
5. Reduce level of blood fat.
INDICATIONS- This herb is often made into a tea in the summertime to prevent Summer Heat.[5]
1. Preventing and treating Summer Heat; firritability and fever, especially when thirst is an important symptom.[5] Malaria. Diarrhea of Summer Heat Dampness type.[3] Carbuncle, mumps, acne. Edema.[3] Erysipelas.[3]
2. Stomach Fire creating excessive thirst.[4]
3. Preventing and treating the poisoning of lead, arsenic, alcohol and Radix Aconitum. Poisoning of hot herbs. Drug poisoning.[3]
4. Unhealing ruptured carbuncle and furuncle, skin ulcer.
5. Hyperlipemia, hypercholesterolemia, hypertriglyceridemia, hyperlipoproteinemia etc.
COMBINATIONS
CONTRAINDICATIONS: Diarrhea due to Spleen or Stomach Cold from deficiency.[5]
PREPARATIONS: Decoction- 20-60 g up to 100-250 g. External use- Appropriate amount.[2] 30-60 g.[4] 15-30 g.[5] Use 120 g cooked with 60 g Glycyrrhiza uralensis- Gan cao in treating the toxic effects of Aconitum carmichaeli- Fu zi.[5]
绿 豆 粉 Lǜ dòu fěn   Mung bean powder     
INDICATIONS
1. Same indications as Mung Bean.[3]
2. Burns, alcholism and food poisoning.[3]

绿 豆 芽 Lǜ dòu yá  Mung bean sprouts       
Nature- cold     FLAVOR: Sweet    CHANNEL:  Heart, Stomach
INDICATIONS
1. Counteract alcoholism.[1,3] Counteract toxic effects of Heat, facilitate the smooth functions of the triple burner.[1]
2. Food poisoning.[3]
PREPARATIONS: Boil or cook.[1]
Sprouting Mung beans Ingredients- 1 cup mung beans and 2 or more cups water
- Put the 1 cup of dry mung beans in a bowl, cover with at least 2 or more cups wate. The beans will double in size, you do not want any to escape the water as they expand.
- Let soak for about 4 hours.
- Drain the water from the beans. Wrap them in a paper towel, or tea towel. There should be enough water left on the beans to dampen the paper towel, if not, you may dampen the towel a bit.
- Place in a colander in a bowl, cover with a dark towel or plate so they are not exposed to light. Allow them to sit overnight or for at least eight hours until they are sprouted to the extent that you like. You can let them keep growing, but if you wait too long they tend to mold.[3]
References
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Constituents
Research

Clinical reports
- A treatment of pesticide poisoning; Crush 500 g mung beans and mix with 60 g salt in about 2 litre cold water for a few minutes; strain and drind as much as mpossible, but not more than 3-5 litre each day. The 15 dcases treates all revoered within 24 hours. no side effects were observed with the expertion of occasional vomiting.[1]

- A report on the treatment of lead poisoning: Boil 15 g mung beans with 16 g licorice to eat twice daily with 300 mg vitamin C added each time. Each treatment program lasts 10-15 days. A total of 9 cases of light poisioning and 28 cases of lead absorption were treated and all the cases showed basic recovery.
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