Can I drink mung bean water during breastfeeding?

Generally speaking, women should not eat foods containing malted milk during breastfeeding. Eating such foods will reduce milk secretion, which is harmful to the health of the breastfeeding child. Women who are breastfeeding should not eat foods such as leeks, chili peppers, pepper and fennel, as these foods can aggravate anemia and may also cause constipation. Let’s take a look at whether women can drink mung bean water during breastfeeding.

Women can drink mung bean water appropriately during breastfeeding, but not too much. Traditional Chinese medicine believes that mung beans are sweet and cold in nature, enter the heart and stomach meridians, and have the effects of clearing away heat and detoxifying, relieving heat and promoting diuresis. It is recorded in "Compendium of Materia Medica": Cooking mung beans can reduce swelling and relieve gas, clear away heat and detoxify, relieve heat and thirst, harmonize the five internal organs, calm the mind, replenish vital energy, and moisturize the skin; mung bean powder can detoxify, treat sores and swelling, and heal burns; mung bean peel can relieve heat and toxins, and remove eye opacities.

Mung bean sprouts can sober up and detoxify. Mung beans have many other uses. Boil water with an appropriate amount of mung bean skins and fresh lotus leaves. After cooling, it can be used as a summer-heat-relief tea. Drinking the juice boiled with mung beans and licorice can cure swelling, sores, drug poisoning, and alcohol and food poisoning. In addition, mashing cactus and mixing it with mung bean powder to make a paste for external application has a certain effect on treating mastitis and leg gland inflammation. Mix mung bean powder and borneol and apply it externally to relieve itching caused by eczema and dermatitis. Patients with hypertension and hyperlipidemia can eat mung beans regularly, which can help lower blood pressure and prevent high blood lipids. But it should be noted that mung beans should not be overcooked, so as to avoid the destruction of organic acids and vitamins, which will reduce the effect of clearing heat and detoxifying. Because mung beans are cool in nature, people with weak spleen and stomach should not eat too much.

Through the above introduction, I believe everyone has a certain understanding of whether mung bean water can be consumed during breastfeeding. I would also like to mention here that it is best not to eat foods that can inhibit milk secretion during breastfeeding, such as ginseng, malt water, etc. Also, please note that you should not smoke during breastfeeding, drink alcohol in moderation, drink less coffee, and eat less pickled food.