Liu Li (not her real name), a 42-year-old from Jiangsu, works in sales for a company and has been under pressure for a long time. During a check-up at the end of last year, she was found to have thyroid nodules in her body, which scared her and worried that she would have cancer.
So I searched for ways to remove nodules on the Internet, and by chance I came across an article saying that dandelion soaking in water and drinking can eliminate nodules, so she went directly to the pharmacy and bought some dandelion soaked water. After drinking for more than 3 months, the nodules disappeared, but she had symptoms such as decreased appetite, diarrhea, and abdominal pain.
I went to the hospital to check and found that she had damaged her spleen and stomach because of drinking dandelion for a long time, and these symptoms on her body were signals of spleen and stomach discomfort. This made Liu Li very surprised, how to drink dandelion water and drink other problems?
1. Dandelion not only eliminates thyroid nodules, but also kills cancer cells?
There are many rumors about dandelion on the Internet, including eliminating thyroid nodules and killing cancer cells, but are these claims true?
According to the "Chinese Pharmacopoeia", dandelion has a bitter, sweet, cold, and return to the liver and stomach meridians, and has the functions of clearing heat and detoxifying, reducing swelling and dispersing knots, diuretic and drenching, and has therapeutic effects on cradle carbuncles, scrofula, eye redness, sore throat, damp heat jaundice, and hot drenching and astringency pain.
Many people see that dandelion has the effect of reducing swelling and dispersing knots, and think that they can treat thyroid nodules with its soaking in water, in fact, this is a misunderstanding, the "knot" here does not refer to thyroid nodules, but refers to boils and swollen poison, such as boils and swollen patches on the skin.
Fei Mengjia, Department of Head and Neck Surgery, Renji Hospital, Shanghai Jiao Tong University School of Medicine, pointed out that dandelion does not help to eliminate thyroid nodules, and there is currently no traditional Chinese medicine or Western medicine that has the effect of treating thyroid nodules.
In addition, regarding the rumor that dandelion can kill 98% of cancer cells in 48 hours, Sun Duan, a traditional Chinese pharmacist deputy director of the Chinese medicine pharmacy of Hangzhou First People's Hospital, pointed out that this is actually from a study with the team of Siyaram Pandey, a professor of biochemistry at the University of Windsor, Canada.
The study was conducted on only 2 types of melanoma cells, and not on all cancer cells. The experiment uses dandelion extract, which is completely different from eating dandelion directly, the study is carried out on in vitro cell experiments, and the results obtained cannot be directly extrapolated to the human body, the structure of the human body is much more complex than cells, and these problems are comprehensive, this study is not credible, and you can't blindly drink dandelion water to eliminate nodules every day.
2. "Queen of Herbs" Dandelion: The real role is these 4
Dandelion is known as the "Queen of Herbs" in the field of traditional Chinese medicine, which can not only be used in medicine, but also has been widely used, but its main role is the following 4:
1. Clear away heat and detoxify
Patients who have symptoms such as sore throat, dry mouth and bad breath on a daily basis, and at the same time have unformed stools, fatigue and fatigue, poor appetite and other manifestations, the consumption of dandelion can play a role in clearing heat and not hurting the body.
2. Reduce swelling and dissipate knots
For some carbuncles, boils, nucleomas, and sores that are red, swollen, hot and painful caused by heat and blood coagulation, eating dandelion can play a good role in relieving it. Especially for female patients with acute purulent mastitis, eating dandelion can improve symptoms and also clear breasts.
3. Dampness and drenching
Dandelion has a good diuretic effect, which can play a good role in relieving some patients with hot drenching pain and damp heat jaundice, and can also treat eye redness and pain caused by liver fire.
4. Treatment of cradle carbuncle
In ancient times, dandelion was used to treat breast diseases, which can clear heat and detoxify, and can play a good role in the treatment of mastitis caused by heat poisoning.
Although the medicinal value of dandelion is high, it is best not to dig it to eat, especially when the wild vegetables are in season, many people will boil the freshly picked dandelion directly to drink, in this regard, Liu Liming, director of the Department of Hepatology of the Third People's Hospital of Hubei Province Integrated Traditional Chinese and Western Medicine, said: "This statement is very undesirable, there is a lot of oxalic acid in fresh dandelion, and it is difficult to soak the active ingredients in dandelion directly in water, and it must be strictly processed if you want to make dandelion exert its medicinal effect."
In addition, dandelion itself is not suitable for everyone, for people with spleen and stomach deficiency and allergies, eating dandelion is easy to aggravate their own discomfort symptoms. And dandelion is cold and cannot be eaten for a long time, otherwise it is easy to cause diarrhea and other discomforts. ”
3. Radish is the catalyst for thyroid nodules? These three foods should be eaten less
It is rumored on the Internet that people who are diagnosed with thyroid nodules cannot eat cruciferous vegetables such as radish, and the glucosinolate substances in radish will be converted into thiocyanate when they enter the body, resulting in the thyroid gland affecting the absorption of iodine, which is easy to accelerate the development of nodules, is this true?
The answer is no, thiocyanate does inhibit the absorption of iodine by the thyroid gland, resulting in insufficient thyroid hormone production, resulting in hyperplasia and enlargement of thyroid tissue. However, goiter and thyroid nodules are not the same thing, the former is diffuse enlargement of the thyroid gland due to iodine deficiency, and the latter refers to a local solid mass, which can be divided into benign and malignant.
And we can't talk about toxicity regardless of dose, the amount of thiocyanate in the blood needs to reach 4.8~6.4mg/L before goiter appears. If you want to achieve this dose, you need to eat more than 2 catties of cruciferous vegetables with high glucolate content for several months, I believe that no one will eat like this every day, so there is no need to worry too much.
Thyroid nodules really need to eat less of the following 4 foods.
Seaweed/shellfish: Algae foods such as kelp, seaweed, and wakame have high iodine content, while shrimp and shellfish are medium iodine-containing foods, and thyroid patients should pay attention not to eat a large amount of them.
Iodized salt/chicken essence: The average iodization amount of iodized salt in mainland China is 100g: 2000~3000μg, and the iodine content of 100g chicken essence is about 766μg, which is a high-iodine food.
Preserved foods: such as ham, salted fish, bacon, sausages, etc., a large amount of iodized salt will be added when marinating, which is not suitable for patients with thyroid nodules to eat in large quantities.
Egg yolk: The iodine element of egg food is mainly concentrated in the egg yolk, and the iodine element of egg yolk is about 27.2μg/100g, and patients with thyroid nodules cannot eat more.
Nodules are common benign diseases, and after being discovered, we should pay attention to regular follow-up and reexamination, and do not blindly listen to home remedies to eliminate nodules, otherwise it is easy to have the opposite effect.
Resources:
[1] "Killing 98% of cancer cells in 2 days? Health Zhejiang 2023-04-24
[2] "Little Wildflowers" on the Roadside, It Clears Heat and Detoxifies Without Hurting the Spleen and Stomach. Guangdong Traditional Chinese Medicine 2021-05-01
[3] "@甲状腺疾病患者: These foods should be eaten in moderation", China Food News official platform 2024-04-08
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