Uses and wonderful remedies from Malabar spinach

Malabar spinach is cool and sweet, has the ability to clear heat, detoxify, diuretic, increase saliva secretion, promote blood circulation, nourish blood, stop bleeding, laxative, antiseptic, anti-inflammatory, and regenerate tissue...

Effects of Malabar spinach

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

Treating heatstroke causing cough and asthma: Malabar spinach has a cool taste, has a cooling effect, and contains ephedrine which is very good for people with flu causing cough and asthma.

Weight loss: This vegetable has low heat generating ability (100g has only 36 calories), low in glucid and lipid but high in protein, so it is very suitable for the menu of people who want to lose weight such as obesity, cardiovascular disease and diabetes. Should cook spinach soup with lean pork and tofu.

Support for 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.

Malabar spinach is a healthy and nutritious vegetable. Illustration photo.

Treating constipation: Malabar spinach nourishes yin, produces body fluids, and is rich in fiber, so it prevents constipation. Women after giving birth should use Malabar spinach to both nourish yin and produce body fluids, and to compensate for yin and body fluids lost along with blood during childbirth.

Nosebleed: Crush Malabar spinach, add water and a little sugar to drink, wrap the pulp in cloth and place on the nose.

Medicine from Malabar spinach

Cure retained placenta: Take 40g of fresh Malabar spinach leaves, wash them, crush them, add about 100ml of boiled water to cool, divide into 2 doses, each dose 10 minutes apart. After about 15 minutes, the placenta will come out. Or use 15 castor beans, crush them, apply them to the soles of the feet for 15 minutes, the placenta will come out, then wash the soles of the feet with warm water.

Treating thrush in children: Take 5-10g of fresh Malabar spinach, crush it, squeeze out the juice, then roll a cotton ball into a ball, wrap it around the tip of a toothpick/chopstick, then soak it in the crushed vegetable juice, and apply it to the child's tongue and mouth (if the child is breastfeeding, use it for about 2 days, the child will be able to breastfeed).

Cure for bone stuck in throat: Take fresh Malabar spinach, crush and squeeze out the juice to gargle.

Cure bedwetting in children: Take 40g of fresh Malabar spinach, wash, crush, add a little boiled water to cool, divide into 2 doses, each dose 10 minutes apart.

Red, painful, and uncomfortable eyes: 50g Malabar spinach leaves, 30g Chinese clematis root, 30g mulberry leaves, 30g bamboo leaves, 30g pennywort, 10g lemon leaves. Use all fresh, boil to concentrate, strain and drink the water several times a day.

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

Bedwetting in children: Wash 40g fresh Malabar spinach, crush, 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 doses to drink, each time about 10 minutes apart.

According to Health and Life