Green Loquat and Mung Bean Soup，From *Proven Tea, Decoction, and Soup Recipes for Common Ailments*,Clears heat, detoxifies, and fights viruses. Suitable for mumps
the decoction is cold in nature; avoid overuse in those with weakened middle yang or chronic debility; the cooling, heat-draining herbs are not suited to those with underlying deficiency-cold of the spleen and stomach
Commentary
The formula is led by loquats as the sovereign herb; with neutral nature and sweet, sour flavor, having Lung, Stomach tropism, it chiefly clears heat, benefits the throat, generates fluid, and resolves toxicity, striking at the root of the condition. These are joined ministerially by raw gypsum (nature cold, flavor pungent, sweet, channeled into the Lung, Stomach, clears heat, purges fire, removes vexation and stops thirst), and mung beans (cold in nature and sweet in flavor, with Heart, Stomach tropism, clears heat and removes toxins), reinforcing the sovereign’s main effect. Together the herbs converge on this action, in accord with the wind-heat toxin pattern.