Medicinal effects of leek
(1) Traditional medicine believes that leeks are warm in nature, can warm the kidneys and help the sun, benefit the spleen and stomach, and move qi and blood. Eating more leeks can nourish the liver and strengthen the qi of the spleen and stomach.
(2) The sulfur-containing compounds in leeks have the effect of lowering blood lipids and expanding blood vessels, which is suitable for the treatment of cardiovascular and cerebrovascular diseases and hypertension. In addition, this compound can make the function of tyrosine system in melanocytes enhanced, thus changing the melanin of skin hair follicles, eliminating skin white spots, and making hair black and shiny.
(3) leeks can cure diseases, with leeks pounded juice nose drops, can treat heat stroke coma. Put leeks on the fire roasted hot, rub the affected area, can treat urticaria. Leek contains a large amount of dietary fiber, colon cancer has a significant therapeutic effect.
(4) Women who suffer from skin leukoplakia, often eat leeks can achieve the double effect of spot removal and weight loss.
(5) Leek contains sexual stimulants, which can excite the sexual organs.
Consumption of leeks a few taboos
1, honey: leeks can not be believed with honey, because leeks and green onions, garlic with the same family and genus, are all the Lily family onion genus, and the food properties are pungent and hot, and all contain garlic chorine and sulfide, and honey is the opposite of sex, so the two can not be eaten together.
2, white wine: white wine sweet and bitter, sex too hot, containing ethanol. Wine has a stimulating, can expand blood vessels, accelerate blood flow, can cause gastritis and gastrointestinal ulcers recur, leeks are warm and sweet, can be a strong yang blood, eat raw leeks drink white wine, better than the fire on the oil. Long-term consumption, patients with bleeding disorders is even more unfavorable. Therefore, be careful to avoid white wine and leeks with food.
3, spinach: leeks can not be eaten with spinach, the two eat with the role of slippery bowel, easy to cause diarrhea.
4, due to the leek is not easy to digest, it should not eat too much, in general, the stomach is weak and hot, the lower part of the fire, dyspepsia, should not eat leeks.
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Shopping for leeks it is best to choose the whole plant dark green and tender, thick leaf flesh, not wilted, not rotting for the best. If you do not eat immediately, it is best to wrap it in plastic wrap and put it in the refrigerator, which can extend the freshness period.
Leeks according to the width of the leaves to points, there are wide-leaved leeks and narrow-leaved leeks. Wide-leafed leeks are tender phase, light flavor; narrow-leafed leeks are not as good as wide-leafed leeks, but the mouth is full of flavor. Really like to eat leeks, when the narrow-leaf leeks as the first choice. Be careful, the leaves are unusually wide leeks to be careful to buy, because the cultivation of the possible use of growth stimulants (synthetic plant hormones).
The leaves of leeks are made up of leaf blades and leaf sheaths, and the leaf sheaths are clasped together to form a "pseudostem". Cutting leeks that is in the pseudostem near the ground to open the knife. Just cut down, "pseudostem" at the cut flush, said fresh; such as has been cut down a few days, the cut will not be flat, and show the inverted pagoda-like.
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