Herbal Tea Name: Mung Bean, Lily Bulb, and Lotus Leaf Soup
Clears heat, dispels dampness, and lowers blood uric acid levels. Suitable for hyperuricemia and early-stage gout.
Consume in the morning and evening. Mung beans clear heat, relieve summer heat, promote urination, and reduce swelling (lily bulbs contain a certain amount of colchicine, which can counteract gout; lotus leaves clear summer heat, resolve dampness, and promote urination. When these three ingredients are used together, they help alleviate symptoms in patients with gout caused by damp-heat obstruction).
Mung Bean, Lily Bulb, and Lotus Leaf Soup，From *Proven Tea, Decoction, and Soup Recipes for Common Ailments*,Clears heat, dispels dampness, and lowers blood uric acid levels. Suitable for hyperuricemia and early-stage gout.
being cold-natured, it may chill the middle and impair digestion in those with weak spleen-yang; because it clears heat with cold-natured herbs, overuse can impair the middle; restraint is advised for the spleen-deficient
Commentary
The formula is led by mung beans as the sovereign herb; with cold nature and sweet flavor, having Heart, Stomach tropism, it chiefly clears heat and removes toxins, striking at the root of the condition. The ministerial support — lily bulbs (nature slightly cold, flavor sweet, channeled into the Lung, Heart, nourishes yin, moistens the lung and calms the spirit), and fresh lotus leaves (neutral in nature and bitter, astringent in flavor, with Liver, Spleen, Stomach tropism, clears summer-heat, promotes yang, and stops bleeding) — reinforces the sovereign’s main effect and coordinates the drug strength. Finished with rock sugar, acting as the envoy to harmonize the various ingredients, the formula attains a regulated, neither-excess nor-deficient balance. The combined effect is tailored to the damp-heat with blood stasis pattern.