Now is the season for eating water spinach, a common vegetable that is well known to every household.

Water spinach is cold in nature and sweet in taste. It is a yin food. This vegetable grows very interestingly. There is a hollow in the middle of the pole. Chinese characters are pictographs, and Chinese medicine also pays attention to pictograms, often saying that form complements form. All hollow foods have roughly the same effect. For example, bamboo leaves have the effect of clearing away heat and diuresis, and lotus root has the effect of clearing away heat and cooling blood. Water spinach has the function of clearing heat from the stomach and intestines and clearing the bowels. Anyone who has bad breath means there is heat accumulation in the intestines and stomach and should eat more water spinach.

Water spinach has detoxifying properties. First of all, it can detoxify food. If you accidentally eat poisonous mushrooms or other poisonous plants, you can mash water spinach, squeeze the juice and drink it to detoxify. Secondly, it can remove blood toxins from the human body. If you develop acne or sores due to blood toxin accumulation on your skin, you should eat more water spinach to help detoxify. In summer, boiling water with water spinach to bathe babies suffering from eczema can provide good relief.

Water spinach has the function of clearing heat from the small intestine. If you have trouble urinating, yellow and red urine, or painful urination, which are all symptoms of heat, you can eat water spinach to clear the heat in the small intestine.

Since water spinach is cold in nature, it is not suitable for people with weak spleen and stomach and loose stools to eat more.

There are several ways to eat water spinach in my family:

1. Stir-fried, it tastes very good. If the body is not cold or hot, you can add some garlic to correct the cold nature of water spinach; If the small intestine is hot, there is no need to add garlic. This is to use the bias of food to correct the bias of the body and achieve the balance of yin and yang in the body.

2. Pinch off the young leaves of water spinach, put them into the noodle soup when cooking noodles, blanch them for a while and then eat them together with the noodles. It tastes very delicious.

3. Another interesting way is to fry the soybeans separately from the water spinach stalks. During the frying process, the soybeans get into the water spinach stalks one by one. This dish is not only fun to eat, but also has therapeutic benefits. Soybeans replenish qi and water spinach relieves dampness, which is perfect for eating in hot and humid summers.

Ordinary home-cooked dishes, when cooked correctly, are not only fun, but also full of wisdom.

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