Medicinal properties of spinach

Spinach, in Oriental medicine called ba thai, rau chan dam. Sweet taste, cool properties. In addition to being a daily food, spinach also has many good effects in medicine. Here are some prescriptions using spinach.

Spinach, scientific name Spinacia oleracea L. Chenopodiaceae. Oriental medicine calls it ba thai, rau chan dam. Sweet taste, cool properties. Enters the digestive and stomach meridians. In addition to being a daily food, spinach also has many good effects in medicine. Here are some prescriptions using spinach.

Spinach.

Anti-anemia, lower blood pressure:80g spinach, wash, chop, add ¼ teaspoon salt (or 1/2 teaspoon seasoning powder), 3g sliced ​​onion. Cook 3 cups of water until 1 cup remains. Eat the residue, drink the water twice a day. You can add 50g goat meat and 3 tablespoons of roasted rice to cook with 100g spinach. Cook 3 cups of water until 1.5 cups remain. Eat twice a day. Continuously for 3-5 days.

Anti-septic:150g spinach, wash, cut into thin strips, soak with 1/3 teaspoon salt for about 1 hour. Stir-fry, remove soil, grind. When thirsty, mix 1 tablespoon in 30ml boiled water and let cool. Drink 1-4 times/day. Continuously for 7 days.

Heart failure support:250g spinach, 150g Chinese knotweed, 5g licorice, roast all 3 together, grind finely. Drink whenever thirsty. Continue until you feel sleepy, eat well, and stop feeling nervous or suddenly tired.

Increased secretion of pancreatic bile and endocrine glands:Wash and thinly slice 250g spinach, 50g pork kidney, 50g beef liver, 3g onion. Cook all in 500ml water, season with 1/3 teaspoon of seasoning powder, add 3 stalks of green onion when there is 150ml left. Eat for breakfast, lunch, and dinner for 2 consecutive weeks.

Anti-aging cells, rickets, body weakness:200g spinach, 30g purple yam, 30g pumpkin, 150g clams or mussels, 100g lotus root. Wash the spinach, yam, and pumpkin, dice them or puree them. Boil the clams until they are shelled, take out the meat, and add 1/3 teaspoon of seasoning powder. Stew the washed lotus root in 500ml of water, add pumpkin, yam, and clam meat to the remaining 300ml, and add 3g of rock sugar. Add the remaining 150ml of spinach until cooked. Eat once in the evening before going to bed. Do this for 10 consecutive days.

Elderly people and children with acute gastrointestinal inflammation, constipation, dysentery:100g spinach, 1/3 teaspoon salt, cook with 3 cups of water until 1 cup remains. Adults drink once at noon. Children drink in the morning and afternoon.

Prevent high blood pressure, difficult bowel movements or chest pain:250g fresh spinach, soak in boiling water for 3 minutes, then remove and mix with salt and sesame oil. Eat twice daily.

Laxative, bowel movement:100g spinach, 100g rice. First, cook the rice into porridge, then add the spinach and bring to a boil again. This dish is often used by people to treat hemorrhoids, difficult bowel movements, frequent constipation, and constipation in the elderly.

Treatment of night blindness:500g fresh spinach, crushed to get the juice, drink one liter a day, divided into 2 times. 250g fresh spinach, 120g pork liver, boil them together and eat blandly. Or take equal amounts of spinach and pork liver. Soak the spinach in boiling water, then squeeze to get the juice, add water to boil the pork liver. When eating, drink only the water.

Treatment of red eyes due to wind, red and swollen eyelids:Use 60g spinach, 15g wild chrysanthemum (wild chrysanthemum), boil to get water to drink.

Treats constipation, hemorrhoids, blood loss and anemia: 250g pig's blood, add water and simmer until cooked, then remove, slice or cut into long pieces, put back into the pot with 500g spinach, cook into soup, after cooked add a little oil and salt and it can be eaten. This recipe has the effect of laxative, bowel movement, and blood tonic.

Treat diabetes, diabetes, drink lots of water: 60 - 120g spinach, 15g dried chicken gizzard (chicken gizzard lining), add water and boil to drink, 2 - 3 times per day.

Physician HOANG DUY TAN

(According to Health and Life)