When the economy is not good, many women start to cut back on expenses, but when it comes to the money needed for beauty, women have never been able to save. In fact, there are still ways to be beautiful while spending less. The editor introduces affordable detox foods for women.
The Four Great Detoxifiers—Wood Ear Mushroom, Pork Blood, Mung Bean, Honey
These are the most effective and cheapest detox foods. Because wood ear mushrooms grow in shady and humid environments, Traditional Chinese Medicine (TCM) believes they have the effect of replenishing qi and activating blood, cooling the blood and moistening it, and can eliminate heat toxins from the blood. In addition, wood ear mushrooms and pork blood have a strong laxative effect, and regular consumption can remove most toxins from the intestines.
Mung bean is sweet and cold in nature, with the effects of clearing heat and detoxifying, promoting urination, and relieving summer heat and quenching thirst. Raw honey is cooling and can clear heat, while cooked honey is warming and can replenish qi. It has a sweet and mild taste and functions such as moistening the intestines, detoxifying, and relieving pain. In Indian folklore, honey is regarded as "a good medicine that brings happiness and maintains youth."
Stir-fried Wood Ear Mushroom with Chinese Yam
The Gentlemen of Detoxification—Bitter Melon, Bitter Tea
Generally speaking, bitter-tasting foods have a slightly bitter taste with a sweet aftertaste, and they have detoxifying functions and can clear heat and reduce heat. Bitter melon has the effect of relieving summer heat, cleansing heat, and improving vision and detoxifying. After analyzing the components of bitter melon, scientists found that it contains a protein with significant anti-cancer physiological activity. This protein can stimulate the body's immune system's defense function, increase the activity of immune cells, and eliminate harmful substances in the body.
TCM believes that tea is sweet and bitter, slightly cold in nature, and can relieve various toxins. Tea contains a rich active substance called tea polyphenol, which has a detoxifying effect. As a natural antioxidant, tea polyphenol can scavenge reactive oxygen free radicals. It can precipitate or reduce heavy metal ions and can be used as an antidote for alkaloid poisoning. In addition, tea polyphenol can improve the body's antioxidant capacity, lower blood lipids, relieve the hypercoagulable state of blood, enhance cell elasticity, prevent thrombosis, and alleviate or delay the occurrence of atherosclerosis and hypertension.
Cold-dressed Bitter Melon
The Messenger of Detoxification—Kelp
Kelp contains a substance called fucoidan, which can absorb cholesterol from the blood and excrete it, keeping the cholesterol level in the blood normal. There is a slightly sweet white powder on the surface of kelp, which is mannitol with great medical value. It has a good diuretic effect and can be used to treat renal failure, drug poisoning, edema, etc.
Old Duck Soup
The Foot Soldiers of Detoxification—Common Vegetables
Among the vegetables we often eat, there are also many heroes of detoxification. For example, tomato is sweet, sour, and slightly cold, and can clear heat and detoxify, promote the production of body fluids to quench thirst, and cool the blood and activate blood; winter melon is sweet, bland, and slightly cold, with obvious effects of clearing heat and detoxifying, promoting urination to reduce swelling, and resolving phlegm to quench thirst; loofah is sweet, neutral, and cold, and has the effects of clearing heat and cooling the blood, detoxifying and activating blood; cucumber and bamboo shoots can clear heat and promote urination; celery can clear heat and promote urination, cool the blood and clear liver heat, and has the effect of lowering blood pressure; carrots can bind with heavy metal mercury and excrete it from the body; garlic can reduce the concentration of lead in the body; mushrooms can cleanse the blood; sweet potatoes, taro, and potatoes have the effect of cleansing the intestines.
Taro Cake