Prevent disease from green papaya

Green papaya is packed with nutrients and enzymes that are essential for promoting digestive health. Since the amount of digestive enzymes decreases as papaya ripens, eating green papaya will provide high-quality enzymes.

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Eating papaya can cure skin wounds and skin diseases. It helps fight acne, pimples and other skin infections. Papaya is often used in facial masks to help unclog pores and prevent acne. Fresh papaya also has the ability to exfoliate dead skin cells to give you a bright skin.

Papaya leaf water can be used to treat menstrual cramps. You can boil chopped papaya leaves with a little tamarind and salt. When the water boils, reduce the heat and leave the pot uncovered until the amount of water is reduced to half of the original amount. Then, drink this mixture whenever you suffer from menstrual cramps.

Controls bowel movements. Papaya and its seeds have anti-amoebic properties that can help control bowel movements. It cures conditions like indigestion, constipation, acid reflux, irritable bowel syndrome, stomach ulcers and other stomach problems.

Healthy heart thanks to papaya. Eating papaya helps control blood circulation, maintaining appropriate blood pressure. Papaya also helps regulate the use of sodium (a substance in table salt) in the body. Therefore, experts say eating papaya can help prevent cardiovascular diseases.

If you want to lose weight, you need to include papaya in your daily diet because it burns calories and excess fat. Papaya provides only 39 calories/100 grams but adds a lot of vitamins C, E, A and folate to the body. The presence of antioxidants in papaya helps burn calories and excess fat.

According to Thanh Nien Online