Spinach is a green leafy vegetable consumed in fall and winter. According to the motherland medicine, spinach is cool in nature, sweet in taste, into the lungs, intestines, stomach meridian, has the function of detoxification of heat and wine, clearing heat and removing annoyance, convergence of yin and moistening dryness, nourishing the blood and stopping the bleeding, strengthening the spleen and the middle, and facilitating the intestines and stomach, etc., and it is suitable for the pelvic blood, blood in the stool, hypertension, diabetes mellitus, pulmonary tuberculosis, dysuria, astriction of the stools, drunkenness, night blindness, bruises and other diseases.

Research in recent years has found that spinach contains coenzyme Q10 and is rich in vitamin E, and thus has the role of anti-aging and youthful vigor. In addition, spinach contains substances that can promote the secretion function of the pancreas, secretion of insulin, can help digestion, can also be used in the adjuvant treatment of diabetes.

Spinach is cold, can stimulate pancreatic secretion, the calcium contained in it, easy to form calcium oxalate, thus suffering from intestinal cold diarrhea, pancreatitis, urinary stones should not be eaten.