It is very necessary to master some first-aid and health knowledge about poisoning in life. Many times, people feel uncomfortable or even get poisoned from eating unhealthy food or during or after contact. They often need the help of some first-aid antidote knowledge, which is also a guarantee for our healthy life. Today, the editor will introduce several common detoxifying foods in life. Let's take a look together.
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Mung Bean
Mung bean is sweet and cold in nature, and it can relieve poisoning from metals, arsenic, and plants. It has a preventive and therapeutic effect on heavy metal poisoning, pesticide poisoning, and other various food poisonings. It accelerates the metabolism and excretion of toxic substances in the body, and mung bean soup is the best detoxifying soup. Therefore, people who are often exposed to harmful substances such as lead, arsenic, cadmium, fertilizers, and pesticides should eat more mung bean soup, mung bean porridge, and mung bean sprouts in their daily diet.
Pig's Blood
Traditional Chinese medicine believes that pig's blood has the effect of relaxing the bowels, clearing the intestines, and removing intestinal dirt. Modern medicine has confirmed that the plasma protein in pig's blood, after being broken down by gastric acid in the human body, can produce a substance that detoxifies and cleanses the intestines. This substance can have a biochemical reaction with dust and harmful metal particles that have entered the human body, and then be excreted from the digestive tract.
Seaweed
Traditional Chinese medicine believes that seaweed is cold and salty in taste, and its functions are to soften hard masses, dissipate nodules, clear heat, promote urination, reduce fat, and lower blood pressure. Modern medicine believes that the alginic acid in seaweed can slow down the intestinal absorption of the radioactive element strontium and can also excrete it, so seaweed has the effect of preventing leukemia (blood cancer) and can also excrete cadmium that has entered the body.
Tea
The detoxifying effect of tea was recorded as early as in the "Shennong's Classic of Materia Medica." Modern medicine believes that tea has the effect of accelerating the excretion of toxic substances in the body, which is inseparable from the combined effect of the tea polyphenols, polysaccharides, and vitamin C it contains.
Traditional Chinese medicine 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 polyphenols can enhance the body's antioxidant capacity, lower blood lipids, alleviate the hypercoagulable state of blood, increase cell elasticity, prevent thrombosis, and relieve or delay the occurrence of atherosclerosis and hypertension.
Bitter Melon
Generally speaking, bitter-tasting foods have a slightly bitter taste and a sweet aftertaste, and they have the function of detoxifying and clearing heat. Bitter melon has the effect of relieving summer heat, cleansing heat, and improving vision and detoxifying. After analyzing the components of bitter melon, it was found that there is a protein with significant anti-cancer physiological activity in bitter melon. 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.
Fig
Fig is a fine fruit among fruits, rich in organic acids and various enzymes, and has the effects of clearing heat, moistening the intestines, aiding digestion, protecting the liver, and detoxifying. In recent years, it has been found that figs have a certain resistance to toxic substances such as sulfur dioxide, sulfur trioxide, hydrogen chloride, and benzene.
Carrot
Carrot is an effective detoxifying food. It is not only rich in carotene, which can increase human vitamin A after consumption, but also contains a large amount of pectin. This substance combines with mercury, which can effectively reduce the concentration of mercury ions in the blood and accelerate the excretion of mercury ions in the body, so it has the effect of expelling mercury.
In addition, among the vegetables we often eat, there are no lack of detoxifying heroes. For example, tomato is sweet, sour, and slightly cold, and can clear heat and detoxify, promote the production of body fluids to quench thirst, cool the blood and activate blood circulation; winter melon is sweet, bland, and slightly cold, and has obvious effects of clearing heat and detoxifying, promoting urination to reduce swelling, and resolving phlegm to quench thirst; loofah is sweet, neutral, and cold in nature, and has the effects of clearing heat and cooling the blood, detoxifying and activating blood circulation; 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 combine with heavy metal mercury and excrete it from the body; garlic can reduce the concentration of lead in the body; mushrooms can clean the blood; sweet potatoes, taro, and potatoes have the effect of cleaning the intestines.
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