Nutritious and healthy dishes from potatoes

There are few foods as simple and rustic as potatoes. For a long time, potatoes have been considered a food for the poor.

There are many ways to prepare potatoes. In addition to boiled potatoes, there are also potato soup, fried potatoes, etc. Although not classified as a main dish, each simple potato contains a lot of starch, fiber, and vitamins that are good for the body. That is why many doctors call potatoes ginseng.

Sweet potato

This is a very popular potato in our country. You can find it at any market, in all seasons of the year, at a very cheap price. In oriental medicine, sweet potatoes are neutral, sweet, cool, non-toxic, good for the digestive system, kidney tonic, detoxification. Sweet potatoes contain many vitamins A, B, C, E, protein, starch, resin, amino acids and trace elements necessary for the body's health such as: calcium, zinc, iron ...

Sweet potato dishes such as boiled, soup, sweet potato cakes… all have laxative effects, cure constipation. To cure dysentery, diarrhea: eat baked sweet potatoes dipped in honey continuously until cured.

Cure gastritis: Mash 500g sweet potato, squeeze out the juice, boil, drink three times a day, about 50ml each time. Drink in batches, each batch lasts 20 days.

If you want to detoxify your body, drink raw potato juice until you feel nauseous, to vomit out all the toxins. Sweet potato porridge with ingredients: 400g sweet potato, 200g rice, 4 Chinese yams, 100g white radish, 150g chicken, 70g shrimp, 50g green beans, 3 cloves of garlic, spices cooked until soft has the effect of clearing heat and detoxifying.

You can also use sweet potatoes to replace acne medications: 40g sweet potatoes, 40g dandelions, 20g crushed sugar. Wrap this mixture in a clean cloth, apply to the acne 2-3 times a day until the acne subsides.

Potato

Potatoes are one of the medicines that are effective for people with stomach diseases.

To treat stomach and duodenal ulcers, use one of the following two remedies: fresh potatoes with the skin on, squeeze out the juice, mix with honey, drink 2-3 teaspoons per day. If you don't have time, you can make potato paste for gradual use as follows: use potato juice with the skin on, simmer until the water thickens, add honey (in the ratio: 2 parts potato juice, 1 part honey), continue to simmer until the mixture thickens like paste, put in a jar, use gradually, drink twice a day, 1 teaspoon each time. You should note, during the time of using the paste, you should avoid spices with sour, spicy flavors such as vinegar, chili, stimulants.

In addition, potatoes are also used to treat a number of other diseases:

- Stimulates digestion: 100g raw potato, 10g fresh ginger, 1 squeezed tangerine, drink before each meal.

- Cough due to weather: Bake 25-50g of sweet potato (peeled) until burnt black. Eat with 1 spoon of honey and the cough will go away.

- Cure headache: slice fresh potatoes and rub on the painful area.

- Cure boils: crush potatoes and bandage on the swollen skin area, change the bandage twice a day.

Taro

Taro is a tuber that contributes to the deliciousness of crab and water spinach soup. With a chewy, rich, easy-to-eat taste, taro is also present in many other nutritious dishes.

- Taro soup: 100g taro, 50g lean meat loin or snakehead fish, crucian carp cooked in soup and eaten daily has the effect of nourishing yin, fighting fatigue, and restoring health to sick people.

- Taro sweet soup: 250g taro cut into small pieces, 50g jujube, 50g brown sugar, cook until soft, eat 3 times a day to treat physical weakness.

- Taro porridge: Cook 60g taro and 100g porridge, add brown sugar when eating, it is good for people with chronic nephritis and stomach pain.

In addition, crushed taro mixed with a few grains of white salt, applied to the skin can cure boils and pus-filled pimples.

Taro

Taro has a cool taste, neutral properties, and helps to cool the body very well. Taro contains vitamins A, C, B... which are natural medicines that help the human body fight against substances that cause skin aging, increase eyesight, strengthen resistance, and are laxatives... Although it contains a lot of starch, it has very little fat, sugar, and protein, so taro is a suitable food for people with diabetes and kidney disease. Taro stewed with snakehead fish and Vietnamese coriander eaten hot can cure arthritis. Crushed taro applied to burn wounds helps the wound to quickly form new skin and heal scars./.

According to Giadinh.net