Mung Bean Sprouts and Chinese Cabbage Root Soup，From *Proven Tea, Decoction, and Soup Recipes for Common Ailments*,Clears heat, detoxifies, promotes diuresis, and reduces swelling. Suitable for urinary tract infections characterized by yellowish-red urine, frequent urination, painful urination, fever, and thirst.
being clearing and moistening in tendency, it is to be used with caution in those with deficiency-cold, cold-phlegm, or cold-dampness
Commentary
The sovereign is mung bean sprouts, with cool nature and sweet flavor, having Heart, Stomach tropism; it clears heat, promotes diuresis, and resolves alcohol toxin, anchoring the central strategy of the formula. The ministerial support — chinese cabbage root stalk (neutral in nature and sweet in flavor, with Spleen, Stomach tropism, harmonizes the stomach, clears heat, and promotes diuresis) — reinforces the sovereign’s main effect and coordinates the drug strength. Viewed as a whole, the formula addresses the damp-heat in the lower jiao presentation, treating both root and branch.