The so-called "water celery" is the southern "small celery" on the market. Most of the stems of this celery are white, thin and short. This celery itself has a strong celery flavor, which can be used to remove the bad smell in other foods. Therefore, it often plays a role in improving taste in cooking.
Nutritional value of Oenanthe javanica
High fiber
Celery is a kind of high-fiber food, which has the function of preventing cancer. It produces a lignin or intestinal fatty substance through intestinal digestion, which is an antioxidant and can inhibit carcinogens produced at high concentration in enteric bacteria. It can also speed up the running time of feces in the intestine, reduce the contact between carcinogens and colon mucosa, and achieve the purpose of preventing colon cancer.
Celery has a high iron content and can supplement women's menstrual blood loss. It is a good vegetable for patients with iron deficiency anemia. Eating celery can avoid pale, dry and dull skin, and make eyes bright and hair black.
Celery contains zinc, which is a functional food and can promote people's sexual excitement. Known as "couple's dish" in the west, it was once listed as fasting by ancient Greek monks. A study in Thailand found that eating celery often can reduce the number of male sperm and may be helpful for contraception.
Apigenin
Water celery also contains apigenin, which has a good antihypertensive effect. Oenanthe javanica also contains rutin, Oenanthe javanica and aesculin.
Efficacy and function of Oenanthe javanica
Sexual taste: spicy; Slightly sweet; Indications of sexual cooling function: clearing heat and penetrating rash; Calm the liver and soothe the nerves. Primary measles; Upper liver yang; Insomnia and dreaminess. Oenanthe javanica can clear away heat and toxic materials, disperse lung and promote diuresis, and has a certain preventive and therapeutic effect on lung cancer. It can cure sudden fever and polydipsia, has the effect of clearing away heat and diuresis, and has a good auxiliary treatment effect on diseases such as urinary tract infection. The aqueous solution has a certain protective effect on hepatocytes. It can also lower blood pressure and treat mumps and hematochezia.
Shennong's Classic of Materia Medica contains "Housewife Chiwo". Stop bleeding, nourish essence, protect blood vessels, benefit qi, and make people fat and addicted to food. "
The Compendium of Medical Forest has the saying of "nourishing the heart, removing blood stasis and healing the wounded".
"Life Taste Diet Spectrum" contains "clearing stomach, removing heat, expelling wind and benefiting throat and eyes".
Gan Ping's hypotension
The effect of celery on calming the liver and lowering blood pressure is mainly due to the acidic antihypertensive components in celery. Animal experiments have proved that intravenous injection of celery has obvious antihypertensive effect on rabbits and dogs. Clinically, it is effective for essential hypertension, pregnancy hypertension and climacteric hypertension.
tranquilizing and allaying excitement
An alkaline component isolated from celery seed has sedative effect on animals and human body, which is beneficial to calm mood and eliminate irritability.
Diuretic detumescence
Celery contains diuretic active ingredients, which can eliminate sodium retention in the body, diuretic and detumescence. Celery soup can treat chyluria clinically.
Adjuvant treatment of hypertension and other diseases
Celery celery is the first choice for adjuvant treatment of hypertension and its complications. Adjuvant treatment is also available for patients with arteriosclerosis and neurasthenia.
Enhance appetite
The leaves and stems of celery contain volatile substances, which are fragrant and can enhance people's appetite.
Hyperglycemia
Celery juice also has hypoglycemic effect. Eating celery regularly can neutralize uric acid and acidic substances in the body, which has a good effect on preventing gout.
Is celery edible?
Can eat. Oenanthe javanica is a perennial herb, which grows in marshland or wetland, and its tender stems and petioles are used as vegetables. Oenanthe javanica is rich in vitamins and inorganic salts, among which the contents of calcium, phosphorus and iron are high. Regular consumption of Oenanthe javanica can clean human blood and reduce blood pressure and blood lipid, so Oenanthe javanica is considered as a kind of high-grade pollution-free herbal vegetable for food and medicine.
Oenanthe javanica is a vegetable, but it has many cultural meanings.
The Book of Songs Truffle Panshui says: "Think of music and panshui, but use its Qin." When people celebrate happily, they must have cress.
In ancient times, the Pangong on the Panjiang River was the residence of Lu. According to legend, if students are lucky enough to be admitted to high school, they must collect some cress in the pot pool next to the big city gate, put them in hats and offer sacrifices at the Confucius Temple. In this way, you can be regarded as a real scholar or scholar. Therefore, later generations called the scholar in the senior high school entrance examination "entering Pan" or "picking Qin". In A Dream of Red Mansions, Baoyu also called Qin Pickers "a land of new green roses and happy songs, and a good cloud fragrance protects Qin Pickers."
Cress is also a delicious vegetable.
"Lu Chunqiu's Book" says: "The beauty of food is the piano of clouds and dreams." Yunmeng is Chu, which means Chu Kui. Yi Yin, the God of Food in Shang Dynasty, also said: "The beauty of food is the flower of longevity wood, the leaf of redwood, the cloud of sunshine and the piano of clouds and dreams". Du Fu, a poet who lived in Sichuan in his later years, said in "Cui Shi Dongshan Caotang": "The white crow peels chestnuts at the mouth of the valley and cooks celery at the bottom of the green mud workshop."
Matters needing attention of Oenanthe javanica
Edible population
The general population can eat it. Celery has the function of lowering blood pressure and is suitable for patients with hypertension and arteriosclerosis. However, because celery is cool and slippery, people with spleen and stomach deficiency and intestinal instability should be careful to eat it. Eating celery regularly can reduce the number of male sperm and help contraception.
Xiangke food
Celery should not be eaten with turtles, chrysanthemums, clams, rabbit meat, cucumbers and crabs.