Mistakes to avoid when eating Malabar spinach

Malabar spinach is a nutritious food, very beneficial for everyone. However, pregnant women in the early stages should avoid using Malabar spinach.

Among vegetables, Malabar spinach is the one with the most nutrients. In addition to providing the body with many vitamins and minerals, calcium, phosphorus, vitamin C, Malabar spinach also has a significant amount of protein.

According to oriental medicine, Malabar spinach is a herb with cooling, heat-relieving properties and is especially benign. In terms of cuisine, Malabar spinach is also a vegetable that is very easy to eat and combine with other dishes. This vegetable contains many vitamins, potassium, calcium, magnesium, B1, B2, B6. Therefore, Malabar spinach is especially good for the elderly and children. If eaten incorrectly, Malabar spinach will be harmful to health. The following people absolutely should not eat Malabar spinach because:

Malabar spinach causes miscarriage

Malabar spinach is a nutritious food, very beneficial for everyone, especially for women. However, for pregnant women, dishes made from Malabar spinach are warned to be dangerous if used in large amounts.

Therefore, pregnant women, especially those with a history of consecutive miscarriages, premature births, or in vitro fertilization, should limit eating Malabar spinach, especially drinking raw Malabar spinach juice in high doses.

According to the Health and Life newspaper, the 2002 Vietnamese Pharmacopoeia clearly states the recommendation: “Do not use papaverine for pregnant women”. Malabar spinach contains Papaverine, a substance found in opium poppies, which has the effect of relaxing the smooth muscles of blood vessels to relieve pain and lower blood pressure. If you use more than 30mg of fresh Malabar spinach, it can cause uterine contractions and easily lead to miscarriage. Therefore, pregnant women in the early stages of pregnancy should limit the use of this vegetable.

Causes insomnia

Eating Malabar spinach can also cause insomnia, so the elderly and people who sleep little should not eat too much of this vegetable. However, these symptoms disappear after 1 day of stopping consuming Malabar spinach juice.

However, Malabar spinach also has great uses such as:

Weight loss: Malabar spinach has low heat generation, low calories, low carbohydrates and lipids but high protein, so it is very beneficial for those who want to lose weight. It will help you not only feel full but also not need to absorb many calories into the body.

Treat melasma

Malabar spinach (after washing) put in a blender to blend and drink the juice every day. Another way is to crush Malabar spinach with a little sugar, then apply them on the pigmented skin area for about 20 to 30 minutes and rinse with cold water. This method, if applied regularly, will bring you surprises.

Treating erectile dysfunction: Compounds in Malabar spinach can stimulate the synthesis of steroid hormones such as progesterone, estradiol, testosterone, glucocorticoids... These are compounds that help increase the quality and quantity of sperm, including arousing sexual potential and ability.

Treat constipation

Malabar spinach nourishes yin and contains a lot of fiber, so it effectively prevents constipation. Women after giving birth should use Malabar spinach to both nourish yin and replenish yin and fluids lost with blood during childbirth.

Cooling, detoxifying

Malabar spinach is used to cool the body, reduce fever, and treat coughs caused by lung heat. Use fresh Malabar spinach leaves in the form of leaf juice or cook Malabar spinach soup.

Lower blood pressure

Malabar spinach contains papaverine, a substance that dilates blood vessels and prevents smooth muscle spasms. Therefore, it is effective in reducing blood pressure. This remedy can be applied to people with high blood fat (atherosclerosis), stroke due to vascular occlusion, and embolism.

Diabetes treatment

Diabetics should eat less rice so that blood glucose does not increase much after meals. Malabar spinach contains inulin which helps slow down the absorption of sugar (sugar and rice are fast sugars). On the other hand, the heat-generating ability of inulin is only 1/9 of fat.

Treating thrush in children

Take 10g of fresh leaves, wash, crush and squeeze out the juice, soak in a soft, clean gauze, and apply on the child's tongue (white thrush), gums, and palate. Apply gently until the white thrush is gone.

Treatment of bedwetting in children

Wash and crush 40g of fresh Malabar spinach, then add a little cooled boiled water to the crushed Malabar spinach, stir well, let it settle and filter the water to drink. Divide the filtered water into two doses to drink, each time about 10 minutes apart.

Children have fever, increased body temperature

Folklore still uses washed, crushed, filtered Malabar spinach leaves for children to drink, and the pulp applied to the fontanelle will be effective.

Red, sore, painful eyes

50g Malabar spinach leaves, 30g Chinese clematis root, 30g mulberry leaves, 30g bamboo leaves, 30g pennywort, 10g lemon leaves. All are used fresh, boiled to concentrate, strained to get the liquid and drink several times a day.

Treatment of retained placenta

Wash and crush 40g of Malabar spinach leaves, add a little boiled and cooled water. Squeeze about 100ml of water, divide into two doses, drink 10 minutes apart. After about 15 to 20 minutes, the placenta will come out./.

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