Malabar spinach - A medicinal herb that increases resistance

Sweet potato is one of the rare plants that contain vitamin K. According to the American of clinical nutrition, eating vegetables with natural vitamin K reduces the risk of bone fractures in the elderly.

Malabar spinach, in folklore, is called by many names: Bồ ngot, bù ngot, and Bồ Ngọt, Bông Ngọt (because it is sweet). The Chinese name is Hắc Hiển Thần (some books record its effectiveness as a god). The book Bản thảo calls rau ngot Đông phong đại. Because when the east wind comes, this vegetable sprouts and grows. Scientific name: Sauropus androgynus. (L) Meer. To make medicine, use plants that are 2 years old or older.

According to Oriental medicine, Malabar spinach is cool (it will be less cold when cooked) and has a sweet taste. It has the ability to clear heat, detoxify, diuretic, increase salivation, promote blood circulation, nourish blood, stop bleeding, laxative, antiseptic, anti-inflammatory, and regenerate tissue.

Malabar spinach is nutritious for diabetics.

Malabar spinach is a medicine that is both "contributing and nourishing" and "supporting the body's vital energy and eliminating evil energy" while increasing the body's resistance and fighting against external causes of disease that invade the body.

Malabar spinach is used to treat the following diseases:

Newborn baby has thrush, white blistered tongue, refuses to breastfeed:Apply fresh spinach juice on the damaged tongue. Can be mixed with honey.

Retained placenta after giving birth, abortion: give the mother a bowl of fresh spinach juice to drink.

Postpartum care:Malabar spinach soup is cooked with lean pork or minced pork. Some places often cook Malabar spinach soup with shrimp eggs, crab eggs, perch, snakehead fish... but lean pork is more safe for the health of breastfeeding mothers.

Summer heat-relieving soup:Malabar spinach soup with mussels, cool and sweet. This combination is cold so add ginger slices or avoid for people with cold condition.

Cure bone pain (pain in the bones, not joint pain and swelling):Cook Malabar spinach with pork bones (don't use pork ribs as the ancients said, maybe there must be marrow...).

Children with yin deficiency sweat at night and are always hot.: 30g Malabar spinach, 30g ground squash, cook with pig's testicles.

Swollen and painful feet: Crush Malabar spinach leaves with salt water and apply.

Persistent shin (lower leg) sores:2 parts Malabar spinach, 1 part lime, crushed and applied once a day.

Nosebleeds:Pound Malabar spinach, add water and a little sugar to drink, wrap the pulp in cloth and place on the nose.

Detoxify alcohol, alcohol with pesticides, alcohol soaked with Strychnos nux-vomica, and seafood allergies: Drink raw Malabar spinach juice.

According to some studies on the chemical composition of Malabar spinach:

In 100g of vegetables, there are 6.5g of protein, 0.08g of fat, 9g of sugar, 503mg of potassium, 15.7mg of iron, 13.5mg of manganese, 0.45mg of copper, 23,300IU of beta-carotene, 85mg of vitamin C, 0.033mg of B1, 0.88mg of B2. This shows that Malabar spinach (compared to other leafy vegetables) has a lot of protein, iron, manganese and provitamin A.

Malabar spinach is also rich in magnesium, copper, potassium, vitamin C and PP. Regarding amino acids, 100g of Malabar spinach contains 0.34g threonine, 0.25g phenylalanine, 0.24g leucine, 0.23g isoleucine, 0.16g lysine, 0.13g methionine, 0.05g tryptophan.

With such high quality vegetable protein, Malabar spinach is recommended to replace animal protein to limit calcium metabolism disorders that cause osteoporosis and kidney stones. Malabar spinach is recommended for people who are losing weight and people with high blood sugar.

In addition, Malabar spinach is one of the rare plants that contain vitamin K. According to American of clinical nutrition 1/1999 and Berkeley University document 7/1999, eating vegetables with natural vitamin K reduces the risk of bone fractures in the elderly, because it protects the cartilage structure against erosion...

Since 1973, Pareira and Ifafar discovered that in Malabar spinach there is a lot of papaverine, a substance previously only found in opium. In treatment, papaverine is used to relax the smooth muscles of blood vessels, reduce visceral pain, lower blood pressure and cause penile erection.

Every 100g of Malabar spinach contains 580mg of papaverine, so if you eat too much Malabar spinach in one meal, you may theoretically experience side effects caused by papaverine (drowsiness, dizziness, constipation...).

According to Health and Life