The characteristics and functions of eggplant, with the progress and development of civilization, people pay more and more attention to the knowledge of eating. Eggplant is a common vegetable for all of us, and it is usually sold in vegetable markets or supermarkets. There are various ways to do it. Let's first understand the characteristics and functions of eggplant.
Eggplant 1 eggplant has large leaves, oval to oblong oval, 8-18cm long or longer, 5- 1 1 cm wide or wider; The shape and size of fruits vary greatly, from long or round to white, red and purple. The flower is solitary, the stalk is about1-1.8cm, the filament is about 2.5mm, the anther is about 7.5mm, the ovary is round, and the style is 4-7mm.
Chinese medicine believes that eggplant belongs to cold food. Therefore, eating in summer helps to clear away heat and relieve summer heat, especially suitable for people who are prone to prickly heat and sores. People with indigestion and diarrhea should not eat more, as Li Shizhen said in Compendium of Materia Medica: "Eggplant is cold and beneficial, and eating more is good for abdominal pain." According to the herbs in southern Yunnan, eggplant can promote blood circulation, reduce swelling and moisten intestines.
Therefore, it is also helpful for people with constipation, hemorrhoid bleeding and damp-heat jaundice to eat more eggplant. You can choose purple eggplant and rice to cook porridge together. "Compendium of Materia Medica" introduces that eggplant with pedicle is baked and ground into fine powder, and blood under intestinal wind is treated with wine; Herbal medicine in southern Yunnan advocates that rice soup is appropriate, because blood due to intestinal wind and hemorrhoid bleeding are not suitable for wine. Bake the pedicled eggplant and grind it into fine powder, which is often used for external use.
To treat chilblain, two or three eggplant seedlings (with roots) in winter field are decocted in water, boiled for 20 minutes, soaked and washed with this, and scrubbed with eggplant seedlings for two or three times to cure. Eggplant has a good effect on reducing hyperlipidemia and hypertension. The specific method is as follows: select dark strips, cut into sections or shreds, and mix in sesame sauce and soy sauce. At dinner, it can effectively reduce and cure itself. The therapeutic effect of eggplant is sweet and cool, and enters the spleen, stomach and large intestine; Has the effects of clearing away heat, stopping bleeding, reducing swelling and relieving pain; Can be used for treating carbuncle, sore, aphtha, hemorrhoid bleeding, hematochezia, epistaxis, etc.
Characteristics and Functions of Eggplant 2 Eggplant is sweet and cool. Has the effects of clearing away heat and promoting blood circulation, relieving pain and swelling, expelling pathogenic wind and dredging collaterals, and diminishing inflammation.
Another name
Kunlun melon, dwarf melon, etc.
trait
Eggplant belongs to the genus Panicum in Solanaceae, which feeds on fruits. Originated in the tropical region of Southeast Asia, ancient India was the earliest planting place. China is the second origin of eggplant, which has been planted for more than 1000 years.
Eggplants are divided into round eggplant, long eggplant and oval eggplant according to their shapes. Round eggplant is mostly round, and it is planted more in the north; Solanum nigrum is slender and rod-shaped, planted in the south. Oval eggplant fruit is small, shaped like a light bulb, with poor quality and less planting. Eggplant can be divided into white eggplant, green eggplant and purple eggplant according to the color of peel, among which purple eggplant is planted more.
Time to market and purchase
Eggplant is one of the heat-resistant vegetables. It is planted in summer and goes on sale in summer and autumn. At present, the small arch shed is used to plant in advance in the northern region, and the market time is as early as spring, but the quality is slightly poor.
When buying eggplant, you should choose the kind with bright skin, dark color, uniform color, no wound and full skin. Pay special attention to the color of the peel around the eggplant stalk. If the peel around the stem is white, the eggplant is tender. If the peel shrinks, it means that the eggplant has been stored for too long and its quality has declined. At the same time, you can cut open the inside of the eggplant to observe the color of the seeds. The seeds are white, indicating that the eggplant is tender. Brown seeds indicate that eggplant is older.
Eggplants can be put in plastic bags and kept in the refrigerator.
Nutritional components and eating methods
Eggplant is rich in vitamin P, vitamin E and vitamin C, and contains protein, calcium and iron. At the same time, it also contains special alkaloids such as fenugreek, stachydrine, choline and solanine, as well as components such as eggplant glycoside, perilla glycoside and glucoside.
Young eggplant can be eaten raw as fruit. But the most common food is fried food. In addition, eggplant is steamed or dried and salted more.
Health care efficacy
(1) Protect the cardiovascular system against scurvy: Eggplant is rich in vitamin P, which can enhance the elasticity of human capillaries, reduce the brittleness and permeability of capillaries, prevent microvascular rupture and bleeding, and maintain their normal functions. In addition, eggplant can also prevent scurvy and promote wound healing.
(2) Prevention and treatment of gastric cancer: Eggplant contains a small amount of solanine, which can inhibit the proliferation of digestive system tumors and has an excellent effect on prevention and treatment of gastric cancer. In addition, eggplant has the function of clearing away cancer fever.
(3) Anti-aging: Eggplant contains vitamin E, which can prevent bleeding and the increase of cholesterol in blood, and has a good effect on delaying human aging. (4) Regulating blood lipid: Eggplant is rich in vitamin P, which can enhance cell adhesion and lower serum cholesterol.
dietotherapy
(1) Mild diarrhea: Eggplant leaves 10 tablets, decocted in water, taken while it is hot, several times a day.
(2) Hematocrit in the stool: Bake the frosted eggplant (slender, dark purple, with fewer eggplant seeds is better) and grind it into powder, and take 9g on an empty stomach and 20g with yellow wine every morning, 1 week as a course of treatment.
(3) Excessive leucorrhea: white eggplant flower 15g, Rhizoma Smilacis Glabrae 30g, decocted in water twice a day.
(4) Emphysema: the eggplant plants that don't bear eggplant after autumn are dried and crushed, the peanut seedlings are chopped, decocted in water twice and concentrated into paste, dried in an oven, mixed in equal amounts and ground into powder, and starch slices (each containing 3.3g of crude drugs) are added, each time 10 slices, three times a day.
10 day is 1 course of treatment, which can be taken for 3 courses.
(5) Cough of the elderly: 60 grams of white eggplant, boiled, deslagging, and warmed with appropriate amount of honey twice a day.
(6) Stomatitis and children's aphtha: 1 Eggplant is dried and ground into fine powder after frost, and applied to the affected area (or mixed with appropriate amount of honey for external application).
(7) Skin stain: Take eggplant and burn it into fine powder, sprinkle it on vaseline gauze and apply it to the affected area.
(8) Rheumatalgia and numbness of hands and feet: 30g of Solanum lyratum Thunb, 9g of Herba Siegesbeckiae and 9g of Alternanthera philoxeroides are decocted in water; Or Rhizoma Solani Multiflori, Radix Stephaniae Tetrandrae and Herba Ajugae each 15g, and decocted in water. (9) chilblain: decoct the roots and stems of eggplant in water and soak the affected parts every night; Or appropriate amount of eggplant root and pepper are decocted and taken, and the affected part is cleaned, so that chilblain can be treated without ulcer.
(10) Hemorrhoids: Wash eggplant 1~2, add oil and a little salt, and steam cooked food in water. It has the effects of clearing away heat, reducing swelling, and relieving pain, and can be used as an adjuvant treatment for symptoms such as swelling and pain of internal hemorrhoids, hematochezia of initial internal hemorrhoids, hemorrhoid constipation, etc.
Small knowledge
Don't peel eggplant.
When some people cook eggplant dishes, they often remove the eggplant skin, which is actually equivalent to discarding some nutrients.
Eggplant is rich in tocopherol and vitamin P (namely limonin), with the highest content in the skin. These substances can not only reduce capillary fragility, prevent bleeding, reduce cholesterol concentration and enhance permeability, but also enhance cell adhesion and prevent microvascular rupture. At the same time, it also has obvious curative effect on hypertension, arteriosclerosis, scurvy and purple spot.
Characteristics and functions of eggplant. Function and function of eggplant
First, anti-aging
Eggplant contains vitamin E, which has hemostatic and anti-aging effects. Eating eggplant regularly can prevent the cholesterol level in the blood from rising, which has positive significance for delaying human aging. Soap, as long as you rub it gently with your hands, rinse it with clear water and put it in a cool and ventilated place to dry in the shade.
Second, clearing away heat and toxic materials.
Can be used for treating carbuncle, sore, aphtha, hemorrhoid bleeding, hematochezia, epistaxis, etc.
Third, the treatment of chilblain
Take two or three eggplant seedlings (with roots) in winter and fry them in water. After the water is boiled, boil for 20 minutes. Wash the frostbitten area with this water, and scrub the affected area with eggplant seedlings. It can be cured in two or three times.
Fourth, lower blood pressure.
Eggplant has a good effect on reducing hyperlipidemia and hypertension, and the specific methods are as follows:
Choose dark strips, cut into sections or shred, and mix with sesame sauce and soy sauce. At dinner time, it can effectively reduce and heal itself.
V. Protecting Cardiovascular and Ascorbic Acid
Eggplant is rich in vitamin P, which can enhance the adhesion between human cells, enhance the elasticity of capillaries, reduce the brittleness and permeability of capillaries, prevent microvascular rupture and bleeding, and maintain the normal function of cardiovascular system. In addition, eggplant can also prevent scurvy and promote wound healing.
Sixth, the prevention and treatment of gastric cancer.
Solanine is contained in eggplant, which can inhibit the proliferation of digestive system tumors and play a certain role in the prevention and treatment of gastric cancer. In addition, eggplant has the function of clearing away cancer fever.
Seven, swelling and pain relief
Has the effects of clearing away heat, stopping bleeding, reducing swelling and relieving pain.