Folk dishes to prevent disease when the environment is polluted?
Wood ear is the top dish that has been used by Eastern peoples for a long time for people in mining areas. Wood ear is a popular and cheap dish that needs to be popularized for its function of preventing dust-causing diseases.
Dust Poison Prevention
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Black fungus:Because it contains many types of enzymes and plant alkaline substances, wood ear can affect foreign objects that enter the body and cause diseases, especially in the respiratory system (rhinitis, pharyngitis, bronchitis, pneumonia) and cardiovascular diseases for people living and working in dusty environments (construction sites, coal mines, brick factories, cotton textiles, wool, carpets...).
Wood ear is the top dish that has been used by Eastern peoples for a long time for people in mining areas. Wood ear is a popular and cheap dish that needs to be popularized for its function of preventing dust from causing diseases. Wood ear can be used in many ways such as stir-frying, cooking food, porridge, sweet soup, cake filling, fried ham...
Snow jelly soup: Use 30g jellyfish, 150g fresh horsetail. Cook with water. Effective for dusty environments that cause dryness, itching, sore throat, sore throat, cough with yellow phlegm.
Lily, Codonopsis pilosula, and pig lung soup: 15g lily, 20g Codonopsis pilosula. Cook until soft and eat to treat coughs in people working in dusty environments who have shortness of breath, fatigue, and weakness.
Prevention of chemical poisoning
- Due to lead:Lead is found in paint, ceramic decoration, and in leaded gasoline and battery manufacturing...
Garlic: Eat a few cloves of raw or cooked garlic every day. Crush garlic and eat it fresh. Store garlic to eat whole cloves or sliced and soaked in vinegar every day. To get rid of the smell, after eating, eat candy or chew a few dried tea leaves.
Vegetables and fruits: Rich in vitamin C such as oranges, lemons, tangerines, grapefruits...
Animal foods: Meat, eggs, and fish convert lead into easily soluble phosphate 3 for excretion.
Cow's milk: Milk protein combines with lead to form an insoluble substance, limiting lead absorption. In addition, calcium in milk prevents lead from entering the bones and being excreted.
Others: Seaweed, horseradish, all kinds of vegetables, especially cabbage, all kinds of beans, especially green beans.
- Due to benzene:Unleaded gasoline contains benzene, which is also toxic to anyone who comes into contact with gasoline, paint, plastics, rubber, and colored inks.
60g green beans, 20g red dates (seeds removed), 6g raw licorice (wrapped in cloth). Cook the beans and dates until soft, then add licorice and eat both the liquid and the solids.
20g lotus seeds, 20g coix seeds, 50g molasses. Cook until thick. Take out a teaspoon each time you eat and mix with water to drink.
Red apple 30g, Anemarrhena 10g, boil and drink daily.
Ginseng 1.5g, red apple 10g (remove seeds), boil until soft, eat both the liquid and the solids.
- Due to mercury:There have been warnings about mercury pollution, especially in gold mining areas. Workers who directly use it are exposed. In addition, mercury can also contaminate places such as battery production, dyes, wood pulp, fungicides, and dental drugs.
Food for this subject is plants rich in pectin (glue) such as carrots, pulp in fruits such as grapefruit, tangerine, orange, lemon...
Radiation protection
Radiation often infects people working in radiation environments such as nuclear power plants, radiation therapy rooms, X-ray rooms, working with photocopiers...
Seaweed is a radioactive substance. Helps the body excrete it. There are also vegetables such as cabbage, carrots. Drink green tea (fresh tea) every day.
Side effects of radiation therapy: If hair loss occurs, use crushed mustard flowers, squeeze the juice, boil, add cane sugar and drink. In addition, this subject is also prescribed to use honey daily to compensate for the reduced glucose level.
Oriental medicine often uses yin-nourishing, body-fluid-generating medicines such as turtle, soft-shelled turtle, eel, pear, and wood ear.
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Prevention of harmful effects of noise
Use nutritious foods such as eggs, milk, beans, fresh fruits and vegetables. Be sure to use foods rich in vitamin B1 and magnesium.
Anti-poison food
In Oriental medicine, some foods are often used to prevent poisons that have not been classified as specific.
Green beans: According to folk experience, green beans detoxify all toxins that enter the body. Summer is the season of heavy pollution, so eating green bean porridge, soup, and green bean tea is very suitable. Green beans are often used to treat arsenic poisoning.
Licorice: This is a familiar medicinal herb that is also often used as food and drink. It also has the effect of detoxifying.
Use licorice wrapped in a cloth bag and cook with soybeans until soft. You can add spices and eat.
Do not abuse licorice, drink it regularly every day for a long time because it can cause edema due to water retention and can cause sexual dysfunction.
Alkaline: Alkaline is found in fruits and vegetables. In addition to their nutritional benefits, they also help clean the body's internal environment. They maintain alkalinity in the blood, break down toxins, and excrete them to keep the internal environment clean and harmless.
According to SK&DS