Western medicine researches food only for its nutritional content, not its medicinal properties; however, vegetables, besides containing vitamins and dietary fiber, also have medicinal properties.
Currently, vegetables sold on the market include: chives, cilantro, celery, spinach, cabbage, bok choy, rapeseed, cauliflower, shepherd's purse, amaranth, mustard, cabbage, water spinach, lettuce, fennel, daylily, bracken, taro, Chinese yam, potato, lily bulb, potato, eggplant, tomato, pickled mustard green, toon sprout, green radish, white radish, red radish, carrot, purslane, water bamboo, lotus root, bamboo shoots, vegetable shoots, loofah, winter melon, pumpkin, bitter melon, cucumber, gourd, crown daisy, mushroom, reishi, black fungus, white fungus, stone fungus, earth tongue, nori, aloe bean sprouts, etc; can these vegetables be eaten indiscriminately? No.
Let me tell you, besides potatoes, tomatoes, green radish, white radish, red radish, carrots, lotus root, vegetable shoots, and cucumbers, the other vegetables cannot be eaten indiscriminately.
△ Chives have an aphrodisiac effect, and children cannot eat them.
△ Pumpkin has the effect of raising blood pressure and stopping asthma, and people with high blood pressure cannot eat it.
△ Mustard, fennel, garlic scape, green garlic, onion, and bell pepper have a warming effect, and people with a fever cannot eat them.
△ Chinese yam and potato have a qi-tonifying effect, and people with insomnia cannot eat them.
△ Purslane, taro, bitter melon, and pickled mustard green have a heat-clearing effect, and people with impotence cannot eat them.
△ Eggplant, kidney beans, cowpeas, snow peas, and edamame have a qi-moving effect, and people with diarrhea cannot eat them.
△ Toon sprout has a sedative effect, and people engaged in agile work cannot eat them.
△ Cauliflower and lily bulb have a yin-nourishing effect, and people with edema cannot eat them.
△ Spinach, bamboo shoots, and crown daisy have an astringent effect, and people with constipation cannot eat them.
△ Shepherd's purse, water spinach, and daylily have a hemostatic effect, and people with thrombosis cannot eat them.
△ Amaranth and cabbage have a blood-tonifying effect, and people with thick blood cannot eat them.
△ Celery, cabbage, bok choy, rapeseed, lettuce, water bamboo, vegetable shoots, winter melon, and gourd have a diuretic effect, and people with diabetes, high blood pressure, and dry mouth cannot eat them.
△ Cilantro has a sweat-inducing effect, and people who sweat profusely cannot eat it.
△ Reishi, winter bamboo shoots, and nori have a phlegm-resolving effect, and cancer patients cannot eat them.
△ Mushroom, black fungus, white fungus, stone fungus, and earth tongue have a laxative effect, and people with diarrhea cannot eat them.
△ Loofah, bracken, and aloe have a blood-activating effect, and cancer patients cannot eat them.
However, many people eat indiscriminately, and thus get sick; and after getting sick, they still eat indiscriminately, and thus cannot recover.