Cabbage is rich in crude fiber, which can not only moisten intestines and detoxify, but also stimulate gastrointestinal peristalsis, promote defecation and help digestion. It has a good effect on preventing intestinal cancer.
Chinese cabbage is not only used as a vegetable for people to eat, but also has medicinal value. Chinese medicine believes that Chinese cabbage is sweet and flat, and it has the effects of clearing away heat, relieving annoyance, quenching thirst and diuresis, and dredging the stomach. Eating Chinese cabbage regularly can prevent vitamin C deficiency (scurvy). Wash Chinese cabbage, chop it up and fry it in thick soup. Wash the frostbite area before going to bed every night for several days. White rapeseed can relieve alcoholism. For people who are drunk and not awake, it can be used to grind and adjust the "Jinghua water" (that is, the well water just pumped from the well), and the effect is good. For people with qi deficiency and stomach cold, it is not advisable to eat more cabbage to avoid nausea and vomiting. Eating too much can be solved with ginger. Chinese cabbage can reduce the incidence of female breast cancer.
There are some trace elements in Chinese cabbage, which can help to decompose estrogen related to breast cancer. The cellulose in Chinese cabbage can not only moisten intestines and detoxify, but also promote the absorption of animal protein by human body. Chinese medicine believes that Chinese cabbage is slightly cold and sweet, and it has the functions of nourishing the stomach, promoting fluid production, quenching thirst, promoting diuresis and relaxing bowels, and clearing away heat and toxic materials.
Eating cabbage in winter can beautify and protect skin.
Chinese cabbage is rich in nutrients, including sugar, fat, protein, crude fiber, calcium, phosphorus, iron, carotene, thiamine, nicotinic acid and so on. The contents of vitamin C and riboflavin are 5 times and 4 times higher than those of apples and pears, respectively. Trace element zinc is higher than meat and contains molybdenum which can inhibit the absorption of ammonium nitrite. Among them, vitamin C can increase the body's resistance to infection, and is used to prevent and treat scurvy, gingival bleeding and various acute and chronic infectious diseases. The cellulose contained in Chinese cabbage can enhance gastrointestinal peristalsis, reduce the retention time of feces in the body, help digestion and excretion, thus reducing the burden on liver and kidney and preventing the occurrence of various stomach diseases.