Why eat mung beans to lower blood sugar, nourish stomach and stop diarrhea?

Mung beans contain more essential amino acids than cereals, in which 100g lysine content is 17 16mg edible part and 100g tryptophan content is 260mg edible part. Therefore, mung beans can supplement the protein of rice, white flour and other cereals. Mung beans also contain quite a lot of vitamins and minerals, such as B vitamins, potassium, magnesium and iron.

Chinese medicine believes that mung beans are sweet and cold, and have the dietotherapy effects of clearing away heat and promoting fluid production, diuresis and detumescence, relieving summer heat and benefiting stomach, moistening skin and detoxifying. "Herbal Dietotherapy" states that "it can replenish vitality, harmonize the five internal organs, calm the spirit, dredge the twelve meridians, dispel wind and moisten skin, and should be eaten regularly". "Life Taste Diet Spectrum" says that mung beans "clear gallbladder and nourish stomach, relieve summer heat and stop diarrhea, moisten skin, eliminate edema, and induce diuresis and stop diarrhea." Mung bean is rich in potassium, calcium, magnesium and other substances, so it has a good antihypertensive effect.