This nutritious soup is great for tonifying and detoxifying, and may be used therapeutically for a variety of conditions. 
Chinese herbal pharmacist, Li Shi Zhen, writes that mung beans are "highly recommended not only as a rich source of nutrients but also as medication.” The many benefits of mung beans include:
Bitter Gourd (Momordica charantia) also known as bitter melon, looks like a pale green cucumber with bumpy, grooved skin. This squash-family vegetable is predictably quite bitter in flavor. However there are ways to reduce the bitterness (it should be picked when its young) and tasty recipes that make it quite palatable. Why eat it? The bitter melon is full of vitamin A and C. Medicinally it can clear heat from the body and reduce phlegm.
Fresh Turmeric Root and Powder
This is a good summertime recipe because Mung Beans are fantastic and preventing summer time sicknesses associated with the draining effects of hot temperatures. These cookies would be good to bring along with you when traveling to arid regions during the hot season, when summertime sickness is likely. You can try substituting honey for the cane sugar to see if the cookies turn out to have more moisture, which might keep them fresh longer in cases where you want them to last during many days of far-away travels. Experiment and enjoy these tasty treats while you stay healthy.
In addition to being sweet, honeysuckle flower is cold in nature and is useful in treating all types of heat. It can treat 'summerheat' symptoms (thirst, headache, sweating, heat stroke, etc.). Honeysuckle works like a natural, herbal antibiotic to fight infection. This flower also can detoxify and reduce inflammation. Honeysuckle has antimicrobial effects against many pathogenic bacteria including Salmonella, Staphylococcus, Streptococcus and Pseudomonas. Honeysuckle is also antiviral and has been show to deactivate the PR8 strain of the influenza virus.
Burdock root can be used to clean and detoxify the cells and tissues of the body. It is a great food to promote gentle cleaning from every day toxins. In particular, it is cooling and cleansing for the liver and for the skin.
