The wonderful uses and remedies of Malabar spinach

In addition to providing the body with many vitamins and minerals, calcium, phosphorus, vitamin C, Malabar spinach also has a significant amount of protein.

1. Treat constipation

Malabar spinach nourishes yin and contains a lot of fiber, so it effectively prevents constipation. Women after giving birth should use Malabar spinach to both nourish yin and replenish yin and fluids lost with blood during childbirth.

2. Cooling and detoxifying

Malabar spinach is used to cool the body, reduce fever, and treat coughs caused by lung heat. Use fresh Malabar spinach leaves in the form of juice or cook Malabar spinach soup.

3. Lower blood pressure

Malabar spinach contains many vitamins and has cooling properties for the body. Photo: blogspot.

Malabar spinach contains papaverine, a substance that has the effect of dilating blood vessels and preventing smooth muscle spasms. Therefore, it is effective in reducing blood pressure. This remedy can be applied to people with high blood fat (atherosclerosis), stroke due to blockage of blood vessels, and embolism.

4. Diabetes treatment

Diabetics should eat less rice so that blood glucose does not increase much after meals. Malabar spinach has inulin which helps slow down the absorption of sugar (sugar and rice are fast sugars). On the other hand, the heat-generating ability of inulin is only 1/9 of fat.

5. Good for postpartum women

Malabar spinach is very good for women after giving birth, because of its coolness, sweetness, detoxification, purification, diuretic, low fat, cholesterol regulation, abundant vitamin C (more than oranges and guavas), rich in fiber, high in vegetable protein, nutritious. For women after giving birth, Malabar spinach is indispensable in daily dishes because in addition to being nutritious, promoting milk production, it also has the effect of effective weight loss without affecting health.

Medicinal recipes from Malabar spinach:

1. Night sweats and constipation in children

Take 30g of Malabar spinach, 30g of squash, 1 pig's testicle and cook soup for the child to eat. This is not only a delicious, nutritious soup with medicinal properties, but it is also a medicine to stimulate appetite for children with anorexia.

In particular, spinach soup cooked with lean pork or raw pork... is not only good for children but also very good for adults because it is a tonic, helping to improve health for people who have just recovered from illness, the elderly or women after giving birth.

2. Treating thrush

Take 10g of fresh leaves, wash, crush and squeeze out the juice, soak in a soft, clean gauze, and brush on the tongue (white thrush), gums, and palate of the child. Brush gently until the white thrush is gone.

3. Bedwetting in children

Wash and crush 40g of fresh Malabar spinach, then add a little cooled boiled water to the crushed Malabar spinach, stir well, let it settle and filter the water to drink. Divide the filtered water into two portions to drink, each time about 10 minutes apart.

4. Children have fever, increased body temperature

Folklore still uses clean, crushed, filtered Malabar spinach leaves for children to drink, and the pulp applied to the fontanelle will be effective.

5. Red, painful, and uncomfortable eyes

50g Malabar spinach leaves, 30g Desmodium styracifolium root, 30g mulberry leaves, 30g bamboo leaves, 30g pennywort, 10g lemon leaves. Use all fresh, boil to concentrate, filter the water and drink many times a day.

6. Treatment of retained placenta

Wash and crush 40g of Malabar spinach leaves, add a little boiled and cooled water. Squeeze out about 100ml of water, divide into two doses, drink 10 minutes apart. After about 15 to 20 minutes, the placenta will come out.

7. Treating melasma

Malabar spinach (after washing) put in a blender to blend and drink the juice every day. Another way is to crush Malabar spinach with a little sugar, then apply them to the pigmented skin area for about 20 to 30 minutes and rinse with cold water. This method, if applied regularly, will bring you surprises.

8. Swollen and painful feet

Crush the Malabar spinach leaves, add diluted salt water, then apply to the swollen and painful feet.

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