Effects and functions of peas:

1, treatment of diabetes

Peas are not eaten a lot in people's daily life. It may be due to the eating habits of Chinese people and the season of peas. What may not be clear to people is that peas have great medical functions. To a certain extent, they can cure diabetes.

2, cosmetic effects

The Materia Medica Compendium recorded that peas have the effect of "getting rid of black spots on the face, so that the face has a glossy". Eat peas and swelling, stretching the skin function, can tighten the wrinkles around the eyes.

Peas seedlings are rich in B vitamins, so they can be used as a good ingredient for moisturizing and sun protection. In late spring and early summer, when the sun's rays are fierce and the weather starts to get hot, and the skin is greasy and sweaty, applying freshly ground beans to the skin can remove the oil from the skin's surface and make the skin smooth and comfortable. In addition, there are also bean seedlings into juice used to wash the face, can make the skin full of luster.

3, antiseptic and antitoxic

Peas also contain antiviral, inhibit the growth of bacterial substances. Frequent eating is extremely beneficial to health.

4, cardiovascular protection

Peas are high in potassium and low in sodium, which is good for cardiovascular protection.

5, lower blood pressure

Peas are a very suitable for high blood pressure, diabetes, hot body and other people to eat health food. Scientists have found that peas in the K factor (potassium/sodium ratio) greatly exceeds the defined range of antihypertensive effect (K factor ≥ 10).

Modern therapeutic experts praise peas as "antihypertensive beans". Suffering from hypertension or elevated blood pressure, headache, heartburn, pulse string people, often take to peas and their products cooked dishes, soups, is very beneficial.

6, eye protection

Improve vision, stay up late to eat more people Pea tips have a clear liver and eyesight therapeutic effect, which contains a large number of carotenoids, lutein, these elements for the protection of the optic nerve, to improve eyesight has a very good help. Especially often stay up late with eyes, eye fatigue and dryness, blurred vision of friends more suitable for common use.

7, calcium

Elderly children are the most suitable, pea tips are especially suitable for calcium, iron and zinc deficiency in the elderly, children and pregnant women and other minerals are easy to lack of crowd consumption.

8, regulating the body

Pea tips are good alkaline food, with meat and other warm food can do acid-base balance. Often eat pea tips in moderation on the hot body has a good regulatory effect and anti-aging effect.

9, the treatment of qi and blood weakness

peas in moderation, light cooking often eat; applied to qi and blood weakness.

10, anti-allergy

If the calcium content in human body fluids is too low, the permeability of the capillaries will be enhanced, and the components of the blood can seep out of the blood vessels, which is the pathogenesis of certain allergic diseases. Peas are rich in calcium, and regular consumption of peas can prevent such allergic diseases.

Expanded:

Peas are sweet in taste and flat in nature, belonging to the spleen and stomach meridians; they have the effect of benefiting the middle qi, stopping diarrhea and dysentery, regulating the camp and defense, facilitating urination, eliminating carbuncles and swellings, and relieving lactic acid and poison; they are mainly used in the treatment of foot fungus, carbuncles and swellings, breast milk impassability, spleen and stomach discomforts, ergonomics and vomiting, distension of the heart and stomach, thirst and dysentery and other illnesses.

Seeds and young pods, seedlings are edible; seeds contain starch, oil, medicinal use has a strong, diuretic, antidiarrheal effect stem and leaves can be cool and relieve summer heat; and for green manure and fodder.

References:

Baidu Encyclopedia - Peas