Function:
First, the medicinal value.
Shepherd's purse is not only a delicious wild vegetable, but also has high medicinal value. It has sweet taste and high medicinal value, and has the effects of regulating spleen, inducing diuresis, stopping bleeding, improving eyesight and relieving fever.
2. Dithiophene thioketone contained in cancer prevention has cancer prevention effect, and it is also rich in vitamin C, which can prevent nitrate and nitrite from being converted into carcinogenic nitrosamines in the digestive tract and prevent gastric cancer and esophageal cancer.
3, promote digestion shepherd's purse contains a lot of crude fiber, after eating, it can enhance the peristalsis of the large intestine, promote excretion, thereby enhancing metabolism, and help prevent and treat hypertension, coronary heart disease, obesity, diabetes, intestinal cancer and hemorrhoids.
4. It can anticoagulate the shepherd's purse acid contained in shepherd's purse, which is an effective hemostatic ingredient and can shorten the bleeding and coagulation time.
5. lowering blood pressure shepherd's purse contains acetylcholine, sitosterol and quaternary ammonium compounds, which can not only reduce the contents of cholesterol and triglycerides in blood and liver, but also lower blood pressure.
6, relieve night blindness Shepherd's purse is rich in carotene, because carotene is provitamin A, so it is a good food for treating dry eye and night blindness.
Second, the value of diet therapy
Shepherd's purse shepherd's purse has high nutritional value. It is rich in vitamin C, carotene, crude fiber, flavonoid glycosides, choline and acetylcholine. Roots have the highest medicinal value, so don't go to the roots during dietotherapy.
There are many ways to eat shepherd's purse, such as stir-frying, boiling water and cold salad, especially hot pot, which is oily but not greasy, and the soup is fragrant and distinctive.
Note: loose stool people and people with excessive fire due to yin deficiency should not be eaten.