Surprised with the uses of eggplant to treat toothache and reduce swelling

Since ancient times, eggplant has been a traditional dish in every Vietnamese family meal. Not only delicious, if used properly, eggplant can also become a medicine that helps with bowel movements, diuresis, treating toxic edema, eliminating lumps in the stomach, and tuberculosis.

According to Oriental medicine, eggplant has a sweet taste, cold properties, and has the effect of dispersing blood, reducing inflammation, relieving pain, laxative, diuretic, treating toxic edema, eliminating abdominal lumps, and tuberculosis. Eggplant is also called white-flowered eggplant, scientific name is Solanum torum. It is a small plant with shallowly lobed leaves and thorns. The flowers are white, the white fruit turns yellow when ripe. The whole plant can be used as medicine.

Pickled eggplant is a traditional dish on Vietnamese family dinner tables.

Eggplant is often used to treat pain in the lumbar region, injuries from falls; stomachache, toothache; amenorrhea; chronic cough. Use 10 - 15g of root, in decoction form. Green eggplant fruit can be boiled, made into salad, or stir-fried. Old fruit can be salted to eat gradually; if salted, it can be kept for years, and is crispy and pops in the mouth.

Eggplants can be cut into pieces and eaten raw like vegetables, dipped in shrimp paste or fish sauce: the eggplants are crispy and crunchy, and when chewed with salty fish sauce, they are very delicious, but you need to be careful, eating too much can cause aches and pains due to the toxic solanin. In “Hai Thuong Y Tong Tam Linh” it is written that you should not eat too much raw eggplant.

Pickled eggplant is more popular than raw eggplant. Soaking the eggplant in a jar of salt water requires pressing the tray tightly, not letting it float, so it is called pressed eggplant and there is a saying “young people pickle eggplant, old people pickle cucumbers”. Pickled eggplant can be eaten after just a few days, eating pickled eggplant does not cause pain or fatigue, perhaps pickling reduces the toxicity.

Some people in the countryside often cut the eggplant into pieces, put them in a plate, and steam them when cooking rice. When cooked, they add a little seasoning. This method not only retains the original flavor of the eggplant, but also tastes better than other cooking methods. Even if you eat a lot, it will not affect the low heat in the stomach.

The Japanese eat eggplant, usually raw, cut into pieces marinated with salt for about three hours, then add spices to make a dish. They believe that eating like this will be good for the stomach, the juice of the eggplant, eating it raw is even more effective in detoxification.

Dry eggplant, roast it, grind it into powder to drink to treat bloody stools.

The uses

Treatment of bloody stools, bloody urine, hematemesis (vomiting blood): dry eggplant, roast it, grind it into powder to drink, has quite good effect.

Treating bloody stools and urination: roast old eggplant until golden brown, grind finely, use 8g each time, mix with water, diluted vinegar to drink, 3 times a day. Or use 40g of dried eggplant roots and plants, boil to drink.

Treatment of dysuria: brew water from fresh leaves of white-flowered wild eggplant, combined with branches and leaves of the single-cold plant.

Cure toothache, gingivitis: burn old pickled eggplant until it remains, rub this charcoal on teeth and gums.

Treat toothache, loose teeth, painful and uncomfortable boils: crush fresh eggplant, add a little sugar and apply directly to the painful area. This can reduce swelling and relieve pain.

Treating poisonous insect and ant bites: fresh eggplant, crushed and applied to reduce swelling and prevent pus.

Treatment of bee (wasp) stings, cracked feet and toes: crush the fruit with betel leaves, apply the juice.

Treating boils and ulcers: Boil the eggplant ear and drink it, it is very good. Treating cracked and cold hands and feet: Boil the roots and dried eggplant plant in water to soak and wash.

According to SK&DS