Introduction: Food plays an indispensable role in maintaining the normal physiological functions of the human body. In addition to providing nutrition, food also has some lesser-known therapeutic effects. Recently, the health channel of the American "MSN website" listed ten foods with therapeutic effects. Let's take a look at the ten foods with therapeutic effects: beans, kiwi, cherries, spinach, watercress, carrots, cabbage, broccoli, dandelion.
1 Beans
Prevent breast cancer. Beans can lower cholesterol, stabilize blood pressure and insulin secretion, and also promote digestive system health. Researchers from the Harvard School of Public Health found that women who eat soy products at least twice a week have a 24% lower risk of breast cancer.
Soybeans: Contain anti-cancer ingredients that inhibit almost all cancers. Soy lecithin also promotes insulin secretion. Eating soybeans is very effective for improving rough skin and dry hair.
Mung beans: The soup can clear summer heat, replenish qi, quench thirst, and promote urination. It can replenish water and minerals in time, making it the first choice for people working in summer or high-temperature environments. Mung beans can detoxify. In case of organophosphate pesticide poisoning, lead poisoning, alcohol poisoning (drunkenness), or taking the wrong medicine, mung bean soup can be used for emergency treatment. Suitable for all ages and all seasons.
Cowpeas: Contain easily digestible high-quality protein, carbohydrates, and various vitamins and trace elements, which can replenish the body's nutrients in time. Traditional Chinese medicine believes that cowpeas have the effect of strengthening the spleen and kidneys, and have auxiliary therapeutic effects on frequent urination, spermatorrhea, and some gynecological functional diseases.
Peas: Peas are rich in protein, and regular consumption is very beneficial for growth and development. Peas are rich in vitamin C and an enzyme that can decompose nitrosamines in the body, which can decompose nitrosamines and have anti-cancer effects. Traditional Chinese medicine believes that peas have the effects of regulating the middle and replenishing qi, strengthening the kidneys and spleen, eliminating vexation and quenching thirst.
Lima beans: Contain saponins, urease, and various globulins, which can effectively improve immunity, activate lymph T cells, and urease has a good therapeutic effect on patients with hepatic coma. The bean grains of lima beans contain a toxic protein that can only be destroyed at high temperatures, so they must be cooked thoroughly before eating.
Red beans: Have a good diuretic effect, can sober up, detoxify, and have a certain therapeutic effect on heart disease, kidney disease, and edema. Regular consumption can moisten the intestines and promote bowel movements, lower blood pressure, lower blood lipids, regulate blood sugar, detoxify and anti-cancer, prevent stones, and beautify and lose weight. Traditional Chinese medicine believes that it has the functions of promoting body fluids, promoting urination, reducing swelling, and stopping vomiting.
Black beans: They have a strong effect on the kidneys, so they can treat swelling and lower qi, treat wind-heat and activate blood circulation and detoxify. Black beans help to strengthen bones and muscles, beautify the face, blacken hair and brighten eyes, and prolong life. They are suitable for night sweats, dizziness, headache, edema, abdominal distension, wind toxins, beriberi, and jaundice edema.
Black Bean and Black Sesame Paste
2 Kiwi
Nutritionists introduce kiwi as a fruit rich in nutritional value, with multiple effects and functions, known as the king of fruits. Kiwi contains more than 10 kinds of amino acids, such as leucine, phenylalanine, isoleucine, tyrosine, and alanine, as well as rich minerals, including abundant calcium, phosphorus, and iron. It also contains carotene and various vitamins, which play an important role in maintaining human health.
Lowering cholesterol: It can be used as a drink to treat scurvy. A cup of kiwi drink every day can greatly improve skin color and texture within a month. The vitamin C it contains helps lower blood cholesterol levels, expand blood vessels, and lower blood pressure. It also strengthens the heart muscle. Regularly drinking a beverage made with a teaspoon of kiwi powder and an appropriate amount of warm water can help stabilize cholesterol levels in the blood.
Treating diabetes: Kiwi has the potential to treat diabetes. It contains chromium, which has medicinal value for treating diabetes. It stimulates isolated islet cells to secrete insulin, thus lowering blood sugar in diabetic patients. Its powder mixed with bitter gourd powder can regulate blood sugar levels. Frequent intake of sweet, sour, spicy, and greasy foods can make the body acidic. In addition, eating late at night, drinking coffee or tea can trigger acid conditions. No matter what problems related to acidity the body has, such as heartburn or acid reflux, kiwi can be used as a good antacid. It can also treat diarrhea and dysentery. A cup of kiwi juice or powder can reduce gastrointestinal discomfort.
Nourishing hair: If your hair is sparse and dull, you can use kiwi juice to wash your hair for a week. Soak dry kiwi in a quart of water, then mix it with regular tap water for use. It not only increases hair vitality but can also solve many hair problems.
Improving eyesight: Due to its rich nutrients, it can increase total protein levels. Drinking a beverage made from kiwi powder after a meal can solve the problem of weak stomach. Kiwi can effectively treat respiratory problems and also improve your eyesight. It can be used with honey to effectively improve eyesight. In addition, it is a powerful antioxidant that can eliminate wrinkles and fine lines. However, if the skin is damaged or allergic, you should consult a doctor before using kiwi.
Improving immunity: The effects of kiwi also include enhancing immune function, treating liver diseases, indigestion, anemia, urinary system problems, respiratory diseases, brain diseases, etc. It also increases red blood cell production and strengthens teeth and nails. It should be remembered that a healthy and balanced diet, daily intake of a large amount of water, plus the use of kiwi can cure many health problems.
Anti-cancer: Regular consumption of grilled food can increase the incidence of cancer, because after grilled food enters the body, it will undergo a nitration reaction, producing carcinogens. The rich vitamin C in kiwi, as an antioxidant, can effectively inhibit this nitration reaction and prevent cancer.
Anti-depression: The latest medical research shows that adult depression has a physiological basis, which is related to the lack of a certain brain neurotransmitter. Serotonin in kiwi has the effect of stabilizing emotions and calming the mood. In addition, its natural inositol helps brain activity, so it can help depressed people get out of their emotional low.
Kiwi and Cucumber Juice
3 Cherries
Anti-anemia: Promote blood generation. Cherry has a high iron content, ranking first among various fruits. Iron is the raw material for synthesizing human hemoglobin and myoglobin. It plays an important role in human immunity, protein synthesis, and energy metabolism, and is also closely related to brain and nerve function and the aging process. Regular consumption of cherries can supplement the body's demand for iron, promote the regeneration of hemoglobin, not only prevent iron-deficiency anemia, but also enhance physical fitness, and strengthen the brain and intelligence.
Preventing measles: During a measles epidemic, giving children cherry juice can prevent infection. Cherry kernels have the effect of inducing sweat, promoting rash, and detoxifying.
Expelling wind and dampness, killing insects: Cherry is warm in nature and has the effect of tonifying the middle and replenishing qi. It can expel wind and dampness and has a good effect on rheumatic lumbar and leg pain. Cherry tree roots also have a strong effect of expelling and killing insects, which can drive away and kill roundworms, pinworms, tapeworms, etc.
Astringent and analgesic: Folk experience shows that cherries can treat burns and scalds, playing the role of astringent and analgesic, preventing the wound from blistering and suppurating. At the same time, cherries can also treat mild to severe frostbite.
Nourishing the face and maintaining appearance: Cherries are rich in nutrition. The protein, sugar, phosphorus, carotene, vitamin C, etc. contained in them are higher than apples and pears. Especially the iron content is high. Regularly applying cherry juice to the face and wrinkles can make facial skin ruddy, tender, and white, and remove wrinkles and spots.
Cherry Syrup
4 Spinach
Protect the prostate. The health functions of spinach are too numerous to mention, such as protecting vision, preventing prostate cancer, colon cancer, and breast cancer; preventing heart disease, stroke, and dementia; lowering blood pressure, anti-infection, promoting bone health, etc. Fresh spinach should be a regular guest on the dining table.
Spinach has the effect of treating anemia. A small spinach contains great effects, rich in the nutritional value our body needs. The rich protein in spinach is beneficial to our body and has received more and more attention in recent years. However, the most noteworthy point of spinach is still its blood-enriching function.
Every 500 grams of spinach contains 14.6 grams of protein, 15 milligrams of vitamin A, 0.3 milligrams of vitamin B1, 0.8 milligrams of vitamin B2, 179.8 milligrams of vitamin C, and 16.4 milligrams of carotene. In addition, spinach also contains relatively rich calcium, iron, vitamin E, and niacin. The enzyme substances contained in spinach can promote the secretion function of the stomach and pancreas.
Mussels with Spinach
5 Watercress
Watercress, also known as water mustard,西洋菜 (Xiyangcai), or watercress, has comprehensive nutrients, among which the content of superoxide dismutase is very high, and it is also rich in vitamins and minerals. Watercress has the effect of promoting menstruation and can interfere with egg implantation to prevent pregnancy. Watercress is sweet and slightly bitter in taste, cold in nature, and enters the lung and bladder. It has the effects of clearing dryness, moistening the lungs, resolving phlegm and stopping cough, and promoting urination. It is a health-care vegetable that benefits the brain and strengthens the body.
At the same time, it can prevent cancer and macular degeneration. Watercress can prevent cancer and macular degeneration and enhance immunity. The phytochemicals it contains can protect healthy cells from the effects of carcinogens. If conditions permit, it can be eaten every day, and it is best eaten raw.
Cured Meat and Watercress Porridge
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6 Carrots
Carrot is a common vegetable with crisp taste, delicious flavor, and rich nutrition. Traditional Chinese medicine believes that it can tonify the middle qi, strengthen the stomach and aid digestion, strengthen the original yang, and calm the five organs. It has a good therapeutic effect on indigestion, chronic dysentery, cough, night blindness, etc., so it is known as "Oriental ginseng". After being stir-fried with oil and eaten, it can be converted into vitamin A in the human body, improve the body's immunity, and indirectly kill cancer cells. The latest research by American scientists has confirmed again: eating two carrots a day can reduce blood cholesterol by 10% to 20%; eating three carrots a day helps prevent heart disease and tumors.
The main nutrient in carrots is β-carotene, which exists in the cell wall of carrots. The cell wall is composed of cellulose, which the human body cannot digest directly. Only by chopping, cooking, and chewing can the cell wall be broken, so that β-carotene can be released and truly digested, absorbed, and utilized by the body. The complete preservation of nutrients such as β-carotene is greatly related to our eating and cooking methods.
A diet rich in carotenoids can reduce the risk of bladder cancer, cervical cancer, prostate cancer, laryngeal cancer, and esophageal cancer. In addition to preventing cancer, the nutrients in carrots can also enhance immunity and promote the health of ears, eyes, and stomach.
Carrot and Bean Thread Salad
7 Onion
Onion is one of the few vegetables containing prostaglandin A. Prostaglandin A is a strong vasodilator that can soften blood vessels, reduce blood viscosity, increase coronary blood flow, and promote the excretion of substances that cause blood pressure to rise, such as sodium salt. Therefore, it can not only regulate blood lipids, but also lower blood pressure and prevent thrombosis.
Onion is more effective than drugs for osteoporosis: Housewives don't like to cook with onions because they make people cry when handled, and many people are afraid of the smell of onions. Unless it is a masterfully prepared onion dish, it is really hard to find onion lovers. It is best to pinch your nose and eat onions obediently.
Onion scrambled eggs, or onion stir-fried beef, are delicious and healthy dishes; onions can also be eaten raw or juiced. According to medical experiments, it can exert more kinds of magical therapeutic effects.
Onions can prevent high cholesterol: Eating half a raw onion a day, or drinking an equal amount of onion juice, to protect the heart, this was originally a folk remedy. Dr. Kedo experimented with patients in his clinic and proved that onions do have the effect of increasing good cholesterol. However, the more cooked the onion, the less effective it is.
Onions can break down fat: Dr. Kedo had the heart disease patients in his clinic eat onions every day, and as a result, found that the compounds contained in onions can also prevent platelet aggregation and accelerate the dissolution of blood clots. Therefore, when you enjoy high-fat foods, it is best to match it with some onions, which will help offset the blood clots caused by high-fat foods. Therefore, it is very reasonable that steak is usually eaten with onions.
Onions can prevent stomach cancer: Onions, garlic, green onions, and leeks are all allium vegetables. Because they contain anti-cancer chemicals, according to a study conducted by researchers in a place in Shandong Province, China with a high incidence of stomach cancer, the more onions are eaten, the lower the chance of getting stomach cancer.
Beef and Onion Stir-fry
8 Cabbage
Cabbage, also known as cabbage, its scientific name is heading cabbage, is a common vegetable. About 90% of its composition is water, it is rich in vitamin C, and it ranks third in the best foods recommended by the World Health Organization.
(1) Cabbage is rich in vitamin C, vitamin E, β-carotene, etc. The total vitamin content is 3 times more than that of tomatoes, so it has strong antioxidant effects and anti-aging effects.
(2) Cabbage is rich in folic acid, and folic acid has a good preventive effect on megaloblastic anemia and fetal malformation. Therefore, pregnant women and children and adolescents in the growth and development period should eat more.
(3) Fresh cabbage has the effect of sterilization and anti-inflammation. When you have a sore throat, swelling from trauma, stomach pain, or toothache, you can squeeze the cabbage juice and drink it or apply it to the affected area.
(4) Cabbage is rich in isothiocyanate propyl ester derivatives, which can kill abnormal cells in the human body that cause leukemia.
(5) Cabbage is rich in vitamin U. Vitamin U has a good therapeutic effect on ulcers, can accelerate the healing of ulcers, and can also prevent the malignant transformation of gastric ulcers.
Spicy and Numbing Cabbage
9 Broccoli
Anti-cancer
Cauliflower contains trace elements that prevent cancer and has antioxidant effects. Long-term consumption can reduce the incidence of breast cancer, colorectal cancer, and stomach cancer. According to the American Cancer Society, among the many fruits and vegetables, cauliflower and Chinese cabbage have the best anti-cancer effects.
Cleaning blood vessels
Cauliflower is one of the foods with the most flavonoids. In addition to preventing infection, flavonoids are the best blood vessel cleansers, which can prevent cholesterol oxidation and prevent platelets from clumping together, thereby reducing the risk of heart disease and stroke.
Rich in vitamin K
Some people's skin becomes bruised and purple from minor bumps and injuries. This is because of a lack of vitamin K in the body. The best way to supplement it is to eat more cauliflower.
Detoxifying the liver
Eating more cauliflower will also strengthen the blood vessel walls, making them less likely to rupture. The rich vitamin C content in cauliflower can enhance the liver's detoxification ability and improve the body's immunity, preventing colds and scurvy.
Vitamin C Messenger
The vitamin C content of cauliflower is extremely high. It is not only beneficial to human growth and development, but more importantly, it can improve human immune function, promote liver detoxification, enhance human physical fitness, increase disease resistance, and improve human immune function. It is especially effective in preventing and treating stomach cancer and breast cancer. Studies have shown that when suffering from stomach cancer, the level of serum selenium in the human body decreases significantly, and the concentration of vitamin C in gastric juice is also significantly lower than that of normal people. Cauliflower can not only supplement a certain amount of selenium and vitamin C for people, but also supply rich carotene, which plays a role in preventing the formation of precancerous cells and inhibiting tumor growth.
Broccoli and Sausage Stir-fry
10 Dandelion
Natural diuretic. As a natural diuretic, dandelion is beneficial to the entire digestive system, increases urine output, helps the body excrete excess salt and toxins, but does not cause potassium loss like other diuretics. It can also increase calcium absorption and help stabilize blood sugar, making it suitable for regular consumption by diabetic patients.
Garlic Mashed Dandelion