What are common detoxifying foods?
In daily life, it is very necessary to master some first-aid health knowledge about poisoning. Many times, people get poisoned from eating unhealthy food or coming into contact with unhygienic items. Often, we need to understand some first-aid knowledge about poisoning and know some common detoxifying substances to protect our health. Here are several common detoxifying substances introduced from daily life.
Mung beans: Traditional Chinese medicine believes that mung beans are sweet and cold in nature, and can detoxify from metals, arsenic, and various plant and animal poisons. They have preventive and therapeutic effects on heavy metal poisoning, pesticide poisoning, and other types of food poisoning. They accelerate the metabolic transformation and excretion of toxic substances in the body, and mung bean soup is the best detoxifying liquid. Therefore, people who are often exposed to harmful substances such as lead, arsenic, cadmium, fertilizers, and pesticides should especially eat more mung bean soup, mung bean congee, and mung bean sprouts in their daily diet.
Pig's blood: Traditional Chinese medicine believes that pig's blood has the effect of promoting bowel movements and clearing intestinal waste. 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 detoxifying and bowel-cleansing substance. This substance can have a biochemical reaction with dust and harmful metal particles that have entered the body, and then be excreted through the digestive tract.
Kelp: Traditional Chinese medicine believes that kelp is cold in nature and salty in taste, with the functions of softening hard masses, dissipating nodules, clearing heat and promoting urination, and reducing lipids and blood pressure. Modern medicine believes that the alginic acid in kelp can slow down the intestinal absorption of the radioactive element strontium and promote its excretion. Therefore, kelp has a preventive effect against leukemia (blood cancer) and also helps 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 its tea polyphenols, polysaccharides, and vitamin C.
The several common daily items mentioned above are all common detoxifying substances. We should memorize these effective common detoxifying substances skillfully. In case of accidental poisoning, we can perform first aid to reduce harm to the body.