According to research by nutritionists, there are many foods that can clear heat and detoxify the body. They act like "internal scavengers," and if you often include these foods on your table, you can promptly eliminate various "waste" from your body. Below, the editor will introduce everyone to the foods that help with detoxification.
Detox by eating these 9 foods
Sweet and Crispy Sweet Potato Fries
Sweet Potato
The fiber in sweet potatoes is soft and easy to digest, which can promote gastrointestinal motility and aid bowel movements. The best way to eat them is roasted.
Toon (Chinese Toon)
The tender buds of toon can be made into various dishes, with the new branches and tender leaves in spring having the best taste. In Traditional Chinese Medicine, toon is considered to have a bitter taste and cold nature, with the effects of clearing heat and detoxifying, promoting urination, strengthening the stomach, and regulating qi. The unique flavor of toon also has the effect of stimulating the appetite.
Shepherd's Purse
Shepherd's purse is a delicacy among wild vegetables. Its tender stems and leaves are used as vegetables, with a fresh and delicious flavor. It contains various amino acids and is said to have the effects of harmonizing the spleen, clearing heat, promoting urination, reducing swelling, calming the liver, stopping bleeding, and improving eyesight. There are many ways to eat it, suitable for both meat and vegetable dishes, such as stir-frying, making soup, or cold salads. Dishes like shepherd's purse dumplings, wontons, buns, spring rolls, and tofu soup with shepherd's purse are fragrant, delicious, and have a unique, tender, and fresh flavor.
Chives
Chives are also a seasonal food in spring and have excellent effects of warming the middle jiao, promoting qi circulation, dispelling blood toxins, warming the body, and strengthening the stomach. Chives are rich in calcium and iron, which are important for the formation of bones and teeth and for preventing iron-deficiency anemia. Eating chives in spring can also help generate yang, which can lift the spirits and resist springtime drowsiness.
Bamboo Shoots
Bamboo shoots are known as the "first treasure among vegetables." Spring bamboo shoots have a light, fresh, and tender taste, and there is a saying that "a banquet is not complete without bamboo shoots." Eating some spring shoots can help with bowel movements. The E. coli in the intestines can synthesize the cellulose from bamboo shoots into vitamins needed by the human body. It can also combine with cholic acid, a metabolite of cholesterol in the intestines, to form indigestible complex waste that is excreted, which helps with detoxification and beauty.
Cold-dressed Bamboo Shoot Shreds
Banana
Sweet in taste and cold in nature. Effects: Clears heat and detoxifies, moistens the intestines. Suitable for dryness-induced constipation; also used for habitual constipation. Should not be eaten by those with deficiency-cold diarrhea.
Watermelon
Sweet in taste and cold in nature, affecting the Heart, Stomach, and Bladder meridians. Effects: Clears heat and relieves summer heat, eliminates vexation and thirst, promotes urination. Suitable for stomach burning pain and halitosis caused by stomach heat. Should not be eaten by those with deficiency-cold syndrome or dampness syndrome.
Celery
Sweet and bitter in taste, cool in nature, affecting the Liver and Stomach meridians. Effects: Calms the liver and clears heat, expels wind and promotes urination. Suitable for stomach pain caused by liver and stomach stagnation-heat, halitosis caused by stomach heat, and constipation caused by dryness in the intestines. Should not be eaten by those with deficiency-cold syndrome or diarrhea.
Cabbage (Songcai, Xiao Baicai)
Sweet in taste and neutral in nature, affecting the Intestines and Stomach meridians. Effects: Relieves heat and vexation, unblocks and regulates the intestines. Suitable for constipation caused by dryness in the intestines.
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