Besides being a common vegetable, eggplant is also a traditional Chinese medicine, a little secret many people don't know. It not only has edible value for the human body but can also prevent and treat diseases. In the following content, the editor will specifically introduce to everyone why eggplant is a traditional Chinese medicine!
Eggplant contains many elements
Don't simply think it only has edible value, because it contains many elements that promote human health, such as protein, carbohydrates, calcium, phosphorus, iron, carotene, thiamine, riboflavin, niacin, ascorbic acid, vitamin E, and vitamin P.
Eggplant from the perspective of Traditional Chinese Medicine
The many substances it contains not only provide the body with the necessary daily elements, but more importantly, they play a role in preventing and treating diseases. Traditional Chinese Medicine believes that eggplant is cold in nature and has a certain effect in reducing swelling and pain, stopping bleeding, and treating cardiovascular diseases.
4 major nutritional values of eggplant:
1. Anti-aging
Eggplant contains vitamin E, which has the function of preventing bleeding and anti-aging. Eating eggplant often can prevent the cholesterol level in the blood from rising, which has a positive significance for delaying human aging. Wash, simply rub gently with your hands, rinse with clean water, and let it dry in a cool, ventilated place.
2. Clearing heat and detoxifying
Used for toxic sores, skin ulcers, canker sores, hemorrhoids with bleeding, bloody stools, and epistaxis.
Traditional Chinese Medicine believes that eggplant is a food of cold nature. Therefore, eating it in the summer helps to clear heat and relieve summer heat, and is especially suitable for people who are prone to heat rash and sores. People with poor digestion and a tendency to diarrhea should not eat too much of it, as Li Shizhen said in "Compendium of Materia Medica": "Eggplant is cold and promotes bowel movements; eating too much will inevitably lead to abdominal pain and diarrhea." "Dian Nan Ben Cao" records that eggplant can invigorate blood, reduce swelling, and relax the bowels. Therefore, people with constipation, hemorrhoidal bleeding, and damp-heat jaundice can also benefit from eating more eggplant. You can choose purple eggplant and cook it with rice to make a porridge. "Compendium of Materia Medica" introduces that roasted dry eggplant with its stem, ground into a fine powder and taken with wine, can treat intestinal wind and bleeding; "Dian Nan Ben Cao" suggests taking it with rice water, which is more appropriate because intestinal wind and bleeding, and hemorrhoidal bleeding, are not suitable for wine. Roasted dry eggplant with its stem, ground into a fine powder, is also often used externally.
3. Treating chilblains
Take two or three winter eggplant seedlings (with roots) and decoct them in water. After the water boils, simmer for another 20 minutes. Use this water to soak and wash the chilblains area, while also scrubbing the area with the eggplant seedlings. It can be cured in two to three applications.
4. Lowering blood pressure
Eggplant has a good effect of lowering high blood lipids and high blood pressure. The specific method is as follows:
Choose dark, long-shaped eggplant, cut it into sections or shreds, and mix it with sesame paste and soy sauce. Take it at dinner to effectively lower and self-heal.