Eggplant treats high blood pressure

Eggplant can be peeled, boiled, grilled, stir-fried, cooked, mixed... with other things without any loss of its food quality.

Eggplant is also known as goat testicle eggplant, long eggplant, goat eggplant. Not to be confused with eggplant, coconut eggplant, purple-skinned eggplant. The Chinese name for eggplant is Nuy qua. Scientific name: Solanum melongema, family Solanum.

Among the eggplants, especially the long eggplant, is a food that has been around since 2000 BC in many tropical regions of Asia and Africa. It is popular because it contains many vitamins and few calories. Eggplants can be boiled, boiled, grilled, fried, cooked, mixed... with other things without any loss of its food quality.

Eggplant is used as a food to prevent and cure diseases if the fruit is ripe.

According to Oriental medicine, eggplant has been recorded in the Materia Medica and ancient medical literature as having the properties of cooling the liver, reducing heat, diuretic, laxative, stopping bleeding, dissolving phlegm, clearing heat, and detoxifying.

Some medicinal recipes using eggplant:

Stir-fried eggplant with plantain:200g eggplant, 15g plantago, 10g onion, 5g ginger, 10g garlic, sesame oil, appropriate amount of soy sauce. Wash eggplant, cut into pieces, clean plantago; cut onion into pieces, slice ginger; peel garlic, dry cut. Heat the pan, add oil, wait for the oil to heat up, add ginger, onion and sauté until fragrant; then add eggplant, plantago and mix well, add salt and a little water and stir-fry until cooked. Eat once a day. Has the effect of clearing heat, detoxifying, diuretic, and lowering blood pressure.

Chicken and eggplant soup:1 chicken, 200g eggplant, 15g hawthorn, 5g ginger, 10g onion, oil, and appropriate amount of salt. Clean the chicken, remove the organs; wash the eggplant, cut into pieces, slice the ginger, and cut the onion into pieces. Heat the pot, add oil, add ginger and onion, sauté until fragrant, then add the chicken and stir-fry briefly. Next, add water, add eggplant, hawthorn, and salt, bring to a boil over high heat, then turn down the heat and cook for about 30 minutes. Eat once a day, use as a substitute for food. Helps digest food, reduce fat, and lower blood pressure.

Reduce blood pressure with vegetarian dishes:Many vegetarian dishes use eggplant. For example: Braised stuffed eggplant - 3 small long eggplants. 300g vegetarian meat filling, 15ml tomato sauce, 2 tablespoons sesame oil, spices. Cut eggplant lengthwise into 2 halves, remove seeds, soak in salt water, take out and squeeze lightly to drain. Stuff with vegetarian meat mixed with spices, fry the stuffed side until golden brown, place in a pot. Next, stir-fry onions, flour and tomato sauce to braise.

Help quit smoking: Scientists at the University of Michigan (USA) have discovered that eggplant also contains nicotine and found in an experiment that eating 10g of eggplant has the same effect as smoking for 3 hours. So, when craving a cigarette, the advice is to eat delicious, cool, nutritious eggplant dishes to avoid toxicity.

Prevention and treatment of bleeding in the digestive, respiratory and urinary tracts:Eating eggplant has a lot of vitamin P, C which helps strengthen blood vessels to prevent bleeding in general. If combined with lemon, lotus root, celery, the effect will increase, stronger and faster.

Treatment of hematuria:Boil eggplant with stem to drink.

Prevention of purpura in the elderly:At the age of 60 - 70, the elderly often have blood stasis on the face and hands, causing purple rashes or spots, sometimes you have to look closely to see. To overcome this condition, you should eat eggplant. Eggplant is soft, so it is easy for the elderly to eat and digest.

Acute bronchitis:500g eggplant, 4 slices of fresh ginger, 3 garlic bulbs. Cut eggplant lengthwise. Slice ginger, crush garlic, mix with soy sauce, oil, salt, sugar. Steam. Has the effect of clearing heat and phlegm.

Hepatitis jaundice:Use a few chopped eggplants mixed with rice to cook eggplant rice, eat continuously for many days.

Protect teeth strong, clean, prevent bad breath:Eggplant cream: Mix eggplant with salt in a ratio of 5 eggplants - 1 salt, soak for at least 3 days with hot water to cover, press on a bamboo tray, leave in a dark place. Take out the eggplants, drain, dry in the shade, put in a pan to roast until burnt, grind into powder. Store for later use. Each time you use, take a wet toothbrush, use a clean spoon to scoop the eggplant powder and pour it onto the toothbrush to brush your teeth (Japanese folk experience).

Americans use a mixture of pickled eggplant to effectively treat tooth decay and pus-filled gums by using clean hands or a cotton swab dipped in powder to rub on the affected area. To treat this disease, you can also use only the stem of the eggplant, burned as is, to dab on the tooth.
Urinary retention: Use decoction of seeds to drink as diuretic.

Cure constipation:Use eggplant, take about 100 - 200g every day to cook simple dishes to eat with rice.

Taboos:According to ancient books, eggplant is very cold, should not be combined with other cold foods, but should also add a few slices of ginger to reduce the coldness. People with cold constitution or loose stools should be more careful when using it. Do not use when the eggplant is crushed! The fresher the better.

According to Dr. Pho Thuan Huong - Health & Life-NT