Malabar spinach is not only eaten for cooling.

A dish cooked from Malabar spinach with black chicken and stewed black beans will help mothers produce more milk, recover quickly, and have rosy skin and smooth hair.

Malabar spinach is a vegetable that has been used as medicine for a long time. According to oriental medicine, Malabar spinach has a sweet and sour taste, is cold, and is non-toxic; has the effect of clearing heat, activating the intestines, cooling blood, and detoxifying...; and treats bloody stools, urinary incontinence, frequent urination, dysentery, rash, boils...

Both Eastern and Western medicine confirm that this vegetable has a laxative effect. Studies also show that it helps eliminate fat, good for people with high blood fat and sugar. In addition to being used in daily meals, Malabar spinach is also used in some remedies to treat constipation, chronic bloody stools, urinary retention, frequent urination, restless chest, stop bleeding and help wounds heal quickly. People often use Malabar spinach as a vegetable to cool and prevent constipation. Some places also use Malabar spinach fruit to dye jams red.

* Treatment of erectile dysfunction:Using Malabar spinach, Malabar spinach, pennywort, chicken or duck offal, cooking hot soup will help treat erectile dysfunction in men quite effectively.

* Treatment of nocturnal emission and spermatorrhea:Cook a handful of Malabar spinach, soybeans, and peanuts with 1-2 kg of pork bones (tiller bones are better). Simmer the pork bones in a pressure cooker, then add the peanuts. Finally, add Malabar spinach and cook for another 10 minutes. Serve hot.

Folklore often uses Malabar spinach as a vegetable to cool down and prevent constipation (Photo: Son Nhung)

* Cure spermatorrhea:In case of premature ejaculation and after intercourse, you often feel tired, weak, pale, take a handful of Malabar spinach, a handful of red amaranth, cook with a pair of testicles (keep the fat and shell intact), eat hot. After eating, drink hot ginger tea. Before going to bed, eat 1 spoon of roasted black sesame seeds, chew thoroughly and swallow, then drink 1 cup of rice wine.

* Increase milk for postpartum mothers:Women who have little milk after giving birth should eat Malabar spinach to produce more milk. Malabar spinach contains vitamins A3, B3, saponin, mucus and iron, so it is good for pregnant women. A dish made from Malabar spinach with black chicken and black beans, stewed until soft and eaten hot, will help mothers produce more milk, recover quickly, and have rosy skin and silky black hair.

* Helps skin to be fresh and rosy:Malabar spinach leaves also have skin care effects. Eating Malabar spinach helps blood circulation, laxative, helps skin smooth and youthful. Pick a few young Malabar spinach leaves, pound to get the juice, add a few grains of salt, apply evenly on the face a few times before going to bed can nourish the skin, smooth wrinkles on the face, prevent rough skin.

* Treatment of vaginal discharge and weakness:1 black chicken, 1 handful of Malabar spinach leaves, 1 handful of black beans, simmer until soft, eat hot with both the water and the solids, 1-2 times a week. When you see results, add a handful of soybeans and 2 handfuls of peanuts. This dish helps women recover after giving birth and makes the skin rosy and the hair black and silky. It is also good for people with stomach pain and heartburn.

* Treatment of constipation:Eating Malabar spinach every day is very good for bowel movements. If you are constipated, you can use the following remedy: Take 500 grams of Malabar spinach, add fish sauce, soy sauce, and vinegar, cook into a soup and eat with rice every day. Use for a few days and you will see the results.

* Treatment of painful urination:Pick Malabar spinach leaves early in the morning, clean them, pound them in a mortar, squeeze out the juice, add a little boiled water to cool, add a few grains of salt and drink. Use the pulp to apply to the lower abdomen (bladder area) and after just a few times it will be cured.

* Treatment of hemorrhoids:If you have mild hemorrhoids, take a handful of Malabar spinach leaves, wash them, crush them with a few grains of salt and apply them to the swollen hemorrhoids. At the same time, cook Malabar spinach soup and eat it with crucian carp (eat both the water and the flesh). This is very effective.

* Treatment of nosebleeds due to blood heat:Crush fresh Malabar spinach and use cotton to soak the juice and insert it into the bleeding nostril.

* Treatment of bloating:50g Malabar spinach, 50g jute leaves, 1 taro root (peeled and chopped) cook soup to eat for a few days. Or use the following 4 types of vegetables in equal amounts to cook soup: Malabar spinach, jute leaves, taro leaves, pennywort.

Attention:Malabar spinach is cool in nature so it should be used with caution by people who often have cold stomach and diarrhea. To reduce the coldness, cook thoroughly or combine with other foods of animal origin.

In Indonesia, people often use Malabar spinach as medicine to treat constipation in children and difficult childbirth in women; use fruit juice to treat sore eyes. In China, some places use crushed Malabar spinach to treat swollen and cracked breasts and detoxify.

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