Water spinach - Heat-clearing and blood-cooling medicine

Water spinach contains a substance similar to insulin, so for people with diabetes, eating red water spinach regularly is very good, can improve the disease...

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Morning glory has the scientific name Ipomoea aquatica Forsk, belongs to the sweet potato family, some documents call it the morning glory family (Convolvulaceae).

People have analyzed the nutritional composition of 100g of water spinach and found that water accounts for 78.2g, protein 2.7g, calcium 85mg, phosphorus 31.5mg, iron 1.2mg, vitamin C 20g, vitamin B2, carotene, nicotic acid, nicotic, especially in the red water spinach variety contains a substance similar to insulin, so for people with diabetes, eating red water spinach regularly is very good, can improve the disease...

For reference, and to be able to choose to apply appropriately, safely and effectively, below are some typical remedies from water spinach.

- Treat children with heat and sweat in summer: Take 100g of water spinach and 500g of Chinese clematis, boil to get the water and give it to the child to drink instead of water during the day.

- Clears heat, cools blood, stops bleeding, cures anxiety, nosebleeds, red tongue with yellow coating, thirst, tinnitus and dizziness: 150g water spinach, 12g chrysanthemum, boil for 20 minutes, filter to get the water (can add a little sugar and drink during the day).

- Cure summer dysentery: Take 400g fresh water spinach stems, a little old dried tangerine peel, simmer for several hours, drink the water during the day.

- Food poisoning: Take a handful of water spinach, crush it and squeeze out the juice to drink. If severe dehydration or poisoning occurs, go to the emergency room immediately.

- Treat stomach pain, heartburn, heartburn, dry and bitter mouth: 20g water spinach, 20g pennywort, 16g purslane, 20g eclipta prostrata, 12g tangerine peel, stir-fry all, put in a pot, add 500ml of water, simmer until 250ml remains, divide into 2 doses and drink on an empty stomach.

- Treat diabetes: 60g red spinach, 30g corn silk, boil to get water to drink during the day, need to drink for a long time.

- Treating mouth ulcers or mouth sores in children: 100g fresh water spinach, 50g fresh green onion, cook soup and take the water for children to drink.

- Skin itching, shingles: Take a handful of morning glory shoots and trumpet tree leaves, crush them with a little salt and apply to the wound.

- Prickly heat, rash, chickenpox: A large handful of fresh water spinach, wash and boil to get the water to rub, wash, and bathe.

- Treat mumps: Take 200 - 400g of water spinach, boil and eat both the water and the stems. You can mix a little sugar into the water and drink.

- Headache, ear discharge: 100g water spinach, 100g dog meat, put both in to stew until the dog meat is tender. Eat dog meat, water spinach, drink vegetable juice. Need to eat for several days in a row.

- Treat toothache: 100g water spinach root, half vinegar, half water, boil to get the water and gargle several times a day.

- Blood in urine and stool: Take a sufficient amount of water spinach, wash it, crush it, squeeze out the juice, add honey and drink. 1-2 times a day.

- Treatment of bloody stools, bloody urine, cloudy urine: Crush fresh water spinach, squeeze out the juice, add honey and drink, 30 - 50ml each time.

- Treatment of nosebleeds: 100g fresh water spinach, enough brown sugar, then crush and add boiling water to drink.

- Stomach and intestines have low heat (hard stools): Eat stir-fried or cooked water spinach soup every day.

- Treat hemorrhoids: Take 100g of water spinach, cook until soft, filter the water, add 120g of white sugar, cook until it thickens like malt candy, drink 2 times a day, 100g each time.

- Treating boils and pus: Take fresh water spinach, wash it, mash it, mix it with a little honey, then apply it to the boils.

- Treat cassava poisoning: Take a handful of water spinach, crush it, squeeze out the juice and give the person a bowl of about 100-150ml to drink. If it is severe, go to the emergency room.

According to Health and Life