The folk so-called "fall of the eggplant, squash can not eat" said, there is no scientific basis.

The fall of the eggplant is not only non-toxic, and fresh eggplant protein and calcium content than the tomato more than three times, often eat eggplant on the prevention and treatment of hypertension, atherosclerosis, cardiovascular disease, scurvy have a certain therapeutic effect. Chinese traditional medicine that the eggplant on the dry stool, bleeding hemorrhoids have a certain therapeutic effect.

Autumn loofah refers to the loofah planted in the summer and harvested in the fall. Luffa is not only nutritious, but also has a certain medicinal value, all body is treasure. The loofah is cold and sweet, and has the effect of eliminating summer heat, removing wind and phlegm, cooling the blood and detoxifying the toxin, activating the meridians, moving the qi and removing the stasis, etc. It can also treat blood in the urine and stools, and help the mothers to get rid of the breast milk.

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Autumn loofah and autumn eggplant, although not poisonous, but the process of eating should pay attention to the following issues:

(1) loofah cold, more food will cause slippery bowel diarrhea, long illnesses, weak body, weak spleen and stomach, indigestion, or eat less for people.

(2) eggplant is a cold nature of the vegetable, the body has indigestion, easy diarrhea, spleen and stomach cold, loose symptoms of pregnant women friends should not eat more.

(3) When buying eggplant, choose fresh eggplant. It is better not to choose "old eggplants", especially "old eggplants after the fall", containing more eggplant alkaloids, harmful to the human body, should not be eaten.

(4) a large number of raw eggplant easy to poison, eggplant in a substance called lycopene, with antioxidant and inhibit the role of cancer cells, is one of the sources of health effects of eggplant. But it has a strong stimulating effect on the gastrointestinal tract, the respiratory center has an anesthetic effect, the human body will be poisoned when the intake is high.

(5) Eggplant contains very low calories, the elderly and obese people may wish to eat often. Eggplant is cold, for people who are prone to prickly heat, sores and boils can eat more, but the spleen and stomach cold, asthma should not eat more.

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