Malabar spinach helps to relieve insomnia

Malabar spinach is also called peanut, has laxative, body-renewing, blood-cooling effects, 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 laxative, body-renewing, and blood-cooling effects. 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 birth easier. Calculating the nutritional composition in 100g of Malabar spinach, there is 93.2g water; 2g protein; 1.4g glucid; 0.9g ash, 3.6mg carotene; 7.2mg 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 can be boiled in water to drink, or cooked into soup and eaten regularly. Dry and grind the seeds and apply to the skin to treat prickly heat, dry and rough skin 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 heart heat, restlessness and insomnia: Use purple Malabar spinach to cook soup with copper bottle gourd.

* Cure for pink eye: 20-30g of Malabar spinach, pennywort, and Plantago each, decoct and drink. Juice of ripe Malabar spinach, drop into eyes to treat sore and 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 those with fever and fatigue due to overexertion.

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

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