Shepherd's purse is also rich in vitamin C, which can prevent nitrate and nitrite from turning into carcinogenic nitrosamines in the digestive tract and prevent gastric cancer and esophageal cancer.

2. Promote gastrointestinal peristalsis

Shepherd's shepherd's purse contains a lot of crude fiber, which can enhance the peristalsis of large intestine, promote excretion, thus enhance metabolism, and help to prevent and treat hypertension, coronary heart disease, obesity, diabetes, intestinal cancer and hemorrhoids.

3. Relieve night blindness

Shepherd's purse is rich in carotene, because carotene is a very important provitamin A, so it plays a very important role in treating eye diseases.

4. Anticoagulation

Capsaicic acid contained in Capsella bursa-pastoris is an effective hemostatic component, which can shorten the bleeding and clotting time.

Step 5 lower 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.

Eating too much shepherd's purse will cause the skin to turn yellow.

Capsella bursa-pastoris is rich in carotene. Every100g Capsella bursa-pastoris contains 2590 micrograms of carotene. If you eat too much, carotene will be inexhaustible, which will lead to accumulation in the body, such as cheeks, nose, palms, limbs and eyes, and yellow skin.

Eating too much shepherd's purse will stimulate uterine contraction.

Shepherd's purse has a component similar to ergot, which has the function of uterine contraction and hemostasis, so it is not good for pregnant women, which will lead to uterine contraction and have adverse effects on the fetus. Pregnant women are not recommended to eat shepherd's purse.

Eating too much shepherd's purse can cause menstrual pain in women.

Eating shepherd's purse during women's menstrual period will stimulate uterine contraction and promote uterine hemostasis, resulting in menstrual pain, decreased menstrual blood volume and other discomfort, so menstrual women are not suitable for eating.

Eating too much shepherd's purse can promote defecation.

Shepherd's shepherd's purse is rich in water and cellulose, which can promote intestinal peristalsis, has a good effect of moistening the intestines and relaxing the bowels, and cellulose can promote the formation of feces, which is helpful for people with poor defecation.

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