The 65-year-old Uncle Zhang went out early in the morning to take the morning luck, just on his way home, he saw someone selling leeks near the vegetable market, the price was one dollar a pound, seeing such cheap leeks, Uncle Zhang bought a big pound of leeks to go home.
When Uncle Zhang carried the big bag of leeks home, and told his wife that this leek was good and cheap, only a pound a pound, I thought that my wife would praise him, but I didn't expect my wife to say to him: "This leek can't be eaten casually, especially like you, the spleen and stomach itself is not good, the leeks are difficult to digest, and it is easy to cause gastrointestinal discomfort when eaten." With that, Uncle Zhang's wife threw the bag of leeks into the trash.
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As a common vegetable in daily life, people in the north like to use leeks to wrap dumplings, while people in the south like to use leeks to scramble eggs or fried shrimp. So, such a seemingly ordinary and ordinary leek, why does someone say that you can't eat it casually? What are the benefits of eating leeks regularly for the body? Who is not suitable for eating it? Below, the left-hander will talk to you about the relevant knowledge of leeks.
First, what are the benefits of regular eating leeks for the body?
Leeks have a title of "Yang Grass" in the folk, and many people think that eating more leeks can aphrodisiac, but is this really the case? To understand whether it has this effect, we may wish to first look at how leeks are recorded in mainland medical books, and what are the medicinal effects? #Health Science Contest#
The Dictionary of Chinese Medicine records: "Leeks have a spicy and warm taste, enter the liver, stomach, kidney meridians, warm, line qi, disperse blood, detoxify." Cure chest palsy, choking, nausea, vomiting blood, blood in the urine, dysentery, quenching thirst, hemorrhoidal leakage, prolapse, fall injuries, insects, scorpion stings. ”
From the records in the "Dictionary of Chinese Medicine", we can see that it is not pointed out that leeks have the effect of aphrodisiac, so let's look at the records of other medical books, "Materia Medica" records that leeks have the effect of "warming, lowering the qi, replenishing weakness, reconciling the internal organs, making people edible, and yiyang". Seeing this, many people see the two words "Yiyang" and think that this is the meaning of "aphrodisiac".
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In fact, "Yiyang" is not "aphrodisiac", leeks have the meaning of Yiyang, mainly refers to leeks can benefit the kidneys, because leeks can enter the kidney meridian, and the medicinal properties belong to the warm, for the kidney yang deficiency can play a good warming effect, so for some health problems caused by kidney yang deficiency, it can play a certain role, but in fact there is no aphrodisiac effect.
Although eating more leeks does not have the effect of aphrodisiac, eating more leeks can have the following effects:
❶ Warm appetizer: Because leeks are warm, you can get rid of stomach cold. In addition, leeks can also remove the heat in the stomach, "Materia Medica" said that "the stomach is hot, but there is stasis in the stomach and fever, stasis blood line, heat self-removal", that is to say, leeks taste spicy and can be dispersed, can be qi, blood, so can scatter blood, then the stomach heat caused by stasis can be eliminated by itself, so it has a better effect on the stomach.
Also, eating more leeks can make people increase their appetite, as long as it is because the leeks emit a unique spicy smell, which contains special ingredients such as volatile essential oils and sulfides, which can play a role in enhancing appetite and enhancing digestive function, which is also the "edible" mentioned in "Materia Medica". For example, making leek boxes, scrambled eggs with leeks, dumplings with leeks, fried shrimp with leeks, etc., are all particularly popular dishes.
Leek box
❷Xing Qi Rational Blood: It is mentioned in the "Materia Medica" that "leeks are slightly acidic, so they enter the liver and the main blood is divided, xin wen can scatter, and all blood coagulation can be done, and it is also the blood that does qi medicine." "Therefore, eating more leeks can play a role in dispersing stasis and activating blood, conducting qi stagnation, which has a good effect on liver qi depression or blood stasis, and also has the effect of blood stasis when used externally, and also has a certain effect on bruises."
❸Running intestinal laxative: Leeks contain a large number of vitamins and crude fiber, which can not only play a role in improving gastrointestinal peristalsis, but also absorb more water in the intestine, so it can play a laxative role, which can effectively prevent constipation, and the crude fiber in leeks can also absorb some harmful substances, which can avoid the accumulation of toxins in the intestine, which also has a certain positive effect on the prevention of bowel cancer.
Laxative
In addition to the above 3 benefits, in fact, leeks themselves belong to a relatively nutritious food, leeks not only contain protein, fat, sugar and other three major nutrients, but also rich in fiber, as well as vitamin C, vitamin B1, vitamin B2, niacin, carotene, calcium, phosphorus, iron, potassium and other nutrients, but also contain volatile essential oils, glycosides and sulfides and other special ingredients. Therefore, regular consumption of leeks is very good for the human body.
Second, when eating leeks, it should be noted that these 5 types of people should not be eaten
Although eating more leeks has many benefits for the human body, but leeks are not suitable for anyone to take, because leeks are warm, easy to produce heat, and contain a lot of dietary fiber, not easy to digest, so leeks can not be eaten casually, especially the following 5 types of people, not suitable for eating leeks:
Yin deficiency internal heat
❶ Yin deficiency internal heat people: Yin deficiency internal heat people themselves have heat in the body, and the medicinal properties of leeks are warm, and temperature helps yang to produce heat, therefore, for people with yin deficiency and internal heat, if you eat leeks, then it will undoubtedly produce more people in the body, which can aggravate the symptoms of yin deficiency, making people have dry mouth, dry tongue, dry and other discomfort.
❷ People with eye diseases: sores taste spicy and warm, eat more easy to produce heat, for some people with eye diseases such as conjunctivitis, keratitis, xerosia and other eye diseases, it is not suitable to eat leeks, otherwise it is easy to aggravate eye discomfort symptoms.
❸ acne patients or people with sores and boils in the body: sores taste spicy and warm, belong to a kind of hair, if acne patients or people with sores and boils in the body eat leeks, it will aggravate the symptoms of physical discomfort, and even make the wound itchy, inflamed, pus, etc., "Materia Medica" has pointed out that "sores are poisonous to eat, more and more painful and itchy, boils and swelling to eat, people turn dramatic."
Acne patients
❹ People with weak stomach: Because leeks contain a large amount of dietary fiber, although they can promote gastrointestinal peristalsis and play a role in moisturizing and laxative, but leeks themselves are not easy to digest. If people with weak stomach eat leeks, then their own gastrointestinal digestion ability is relatively weak, after eating can not only digest, but also easy to stimulate the intestinal wall, can cause diarrhea, vomiting, bloating and other uncomfortable symptoms.
❺ People with gastrointestinal diseases: leeks are spicy and warm, can cause certain irritation to the gastrointestinal tract, if it is a person with gastrointestinal diseases, such as gastritis, gastric ulcer, duodenal ulcer, inflammatory bowel disease, dyspepsia, etc., not only easy to stimulate the gastrointestinal tract, but also easy to produce heat, will aggravate the symptoms of gastrointestinal discomfort.
III. Conclusion
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In general, although eating more leeks has many benefits for the body, leeks are not suitable for anyone to eat, especially the 5 types of people mentioned above, it is best not to eat. In addition, although leeks are good, they should not be eaten more, and the "Compendium of Materia Medica" has been recorded: "Leeks eat more, they are dizzy, especially after drinking" Plus leeks are not easy to digest. Therefore, you can't eat too many leeks at a time, it is best to control the amount of a meal at about 100 to 200g, not more than 400g. #Health Star Program#
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