Effective treatment of shingles with sweet potatoes

Sweet potato is one of the important food crops, containing many nutrients necessary for human health.In particular, sweet potatoes are a valuable medicine for treating constipation, diabetes, osteoporosis, shingles and fatty liver.

Our country has many types of sweet potatoes such as white flesh, red skin purple flesh, red skin yellow flesh and are often used to boil, grill, cook hot pot, stew meat and bones, fry flour, make jam, dry, make cakes, cook sweet soup... Sweet potato leaves are often eaten boiled or stir-fried with garlic fish sauce, very delicious... Sweet potatoes contain starch, glucose, protein, fat, diattaza; Mn, Ca, Cu; vitamins A, B, C, tannin, pentozan. Sweet potato leaves contain calcium, magnesium, iron, manganese, vitamin C.

According to Oriental medicine, sweet potato tubers and leaves are sweet, neutral, and non-toxic. They have the effect of strengthening the spleen, benefiting the kidneys, laxative, anti-inflammatory, benefiting the liver and gallbladder, and improving eyesight. Sweet potatoes treat the following symptoms:

Treatment of constipation and hemorrhoids:Sweet potatoes contain a lot of fiber which helps regulate intestinal motility. Fiber also helps quickly remove waste from the digestive tract.

Diabetes treatment:Sweet potato leaves and shoots are rich in magnesium, which is essential for preventing and treating diabetes.

Treatment of osteoporosis, muscle and joint pain, and children with orange accumulation:Potato leaves, shoots, and tubers all contain a lot of calcium, so eating potatoes is a natural source of calcium to prevent osteoporosis in adults and stunted children.

Recent documents also show that sweet potato tubers and leaves contain phytosterols adenine and betaine choline, which help the body metabolize fat and prevent fat accumulation in the heart and liver. People who are overweight and at risk of heart disease and high blood pressure should eat sweet potatoes.

Some medicinal dishes from sweet potatoes:

Treatment of hemorrhoids, constipation:Each time, use a large sweet potato with red skin and yellow flesh. Cut the potato in half, put 2-3 onions in, wrap it in banana leaves, and bake until cooked. Then eat both the potato and onions, 2-3 potatoes a day, for many days.

Diabetes treatment:100g young sweet potato shoots or leaves, boiled and dipped in tomato sauce, eaten several times a week (best to use purple sweet potato leaves).

Treatment of bone and joint pain:Sweet potato stew with pig's feet or pig's tail eaten a few times a week.

Cure children with indigestion:100g young sweet potato leaves, 10g chicken gizzard membrane, boil in water to drink.

Treatment of night blindness:Young sweet potato leaves stir-fried with pork liver, add enough spices to eat a few times a week.

Cure motion sickness:chew raw potato and swallow the juice

Treatment of shingles:Crushed taro leaves are applied externally, boiled internally and eaten with both the leaves and the liquid.

Note:Sweet potatoes are rich in calcium so people with kidney stones should not use them for a long time. People with hot stomachs (high acid) should not eat too much as it can cause a hot throat.

According to SK&DS