Bitter greens contain 91 grams of water per 100 grams of young leaves, 1.8 grams of protein, 0.5 grams of fat, 4 grams of carbohydrates, 120 milligrams of calcium, 52 milligrams of phosphorus, 1.79 milligrams of carotene, vitamin B20.18 milligrams of vitamin B, vitamin C12 milligrams of vitamin C and so on.
Bitter greens are bitter and cold in nature, with the effect of clearing heat and detoxification, cooling the blood. It is used to treat dysentery, jaundice, hemorrhagic drenching, hemorrhoidal fistula, and healing swelling. Diannan Materia Medica" in "cool blood heat, cold stomach, hair belly in the abdomen, please accumulate water." Compendium of Materia Medica, "treatment of hemorrhoids and rashes". The person who is cold in the spleen and stomach should not eat.
Bitter cabbage, also known as endive, bitter pods, Gan Ma Cai, the old stork cabbage, no incense and so on. For the chrysanthemum family plant bitter set the young leaves of the vegetable. Li Shizhen in the "Compendium of Materia Medica" is also recorded. It is a perennial herb, 10-40cm high, glabrous. It is cold in nature, bitter in taste, and has the effect of clearing heat and detoxification, cooling blood, activating blood circulation, breaking blood stasis, draining pus and astringency. The young roots and young stems and leaves are edible, mostly born in the mountains and wilderness. mg, zinc 0.86 mg, 41 mg of phosphorus, but also contains 17 kinds of amino acids, including arginine, histidine, glutamic acid content is the highest, accounting for 43% of the total amino acids. In addition, it also contains dandelion autohol, mannitol, wax alcohol, choline, tartaric acid and other ingredients. Bitter cabbage has heat detoxification, cool blood, dysentery and other effects, the main treatment of dysentery, gangrene, hemorrhoids, hemorrhoids and fistula and other diseases.
(1) Prevention and treatment of anemia, summer health care. Bitter cabbage is rich in carotene, vitamin C and potassium salts, calcium salts, etc., on the prevention and treatment of anemia, to maintain the body's normal physiological activities, promote growth and development and summer health care has a better role.
(2) Clearing heat and detoxification, sterilization and anti-inflammatory. Bitter cabbage contains dandelion sterol, choline and other components of Staphylococcus aureus drug-resistant strains, hemolytic streptococcus has a strong bactericidal effect on the pneumococcus, meningococcus, diphtheria bacillus, Pseudomonas aeruginosa, dysentery bacillus and so on also have a certain killing effect, so jaundiced hepatitis, pharyngitis, bacterial dysentery, cold and fever, and chronic bronchitis, tonsillitis and so on have a certain effect on the treatment of jaundice, pharyngitis, bacterial dysentery, colds and fever and chronic bronchitis, tonsillitis, etc.. It has anti-inflammatory and detoxification effects. Apply to appendicitis, enteritis, women's cervicitis, mastitis, and pharyngitis, tonsillitis suppurative appendicitis (intestinal carbuncle), carbuncle, cellulitis, anasarca, women's carbuncle, etc.: women's endometritis, cervicitis, cervical erosion, leukorrhea, and uterine adnexitis, etc.: Influenza, epiglottitis, acute pharyngitis and tonsillitis: biliary tract infections, cholecystitis:
(3) Prevention and control of cancer . Bitter cabbage decoction on acute lymphoblastic leukemia, acute and chronic granulocytic leukemia patients with blood cell deoxygenase has a significant inhibitory effect, but also for the prevention and treatment of cervical cancer, rectal cancer, anal cancer.