Malabar spinach helps relieve insomnia

Malabar spinach is also called peanut, has laxative, body-renewing, blood-cooling effects, is often cooked in crab soup, eaten with crispy salted eggplant, very delicious, cool, nutritious.

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According to traditional medicine, Malabar spinach has a sour taste and cold properties. It has the effect of laxative, producing new fluid, cooling the blood. It often treats hemorrhoids, constipation, and internal heat and thirst. According to the book Tue Tinh, Malabar spinach has the effect of activating the fetus and making it easier to give birth. Calculating the nutritional composition in 100g of Malabar spinach, there is 93.2g of water; 2g of protein; 1.4g of glucid; 0.9g of ash, 3.6mg of carotene; 7.2mg of vitamin C.

Recent documents show that the pectin in Malabar spinach has a laxative effect, eliminating fat, very suitable for people who need to lose weight, obesity, diabetes, constipation, people who often have to work in the hot sun. Below are some dishes and medicines with Malabar spinach that are both easy to make and effective.

* Cure constipation, dry and rough skin: Malabar spinach combined with black sesame, boil water to drink, or cook soup to eat regularly. Dry and grind the seeds, rub on dry and rough skin rash very well.

* Treatment for cracked nipples in postpartum women: Boil Malabar spinach leaves in water, drink, wash and apply externally several times a day.

* Cure hot heart, restlessness and insomnia: Use purple Malabar spinach to cook soup with copper bottle gourd.

* Cure red eye: 20-30g of Malabar spinach, pennywort, and Plantago each, decoct and drink. Drop the juice of ripe Malabar spinach into the eyes to treat dry eyes.

* Helps lose weight: Malabar spinach has a lot of water so it is very good for people who want to lose weight and avoid obesity.

* Helps increase resistance, cool the body: The amount of vitamin C in Malabar spinach is quite large, so it has the effect of cooling the body, increasing resistance for sick people, especially people with fever and fatigue due to overexertion.

Note, Malabar spinach is cold in nature so it should not be used by people with cold stomachs and loose stools.

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