The efficacy and role of scallions:
1. diastolic blood vessels
Scallions are rich in vitamin C, have diastolic small blood vessels, promote blood circulation, can prevent dizziness due to elevated blood pressure, keep the brain flexible, and prevent Alzheimer's disease. Onion volatile oil and spicy pigment, can get rid of fishy and other greasy thick flavor dishes in the odor, produce a special aroma, if eaten with mushrooms can also play a role in promoting blood circulation.
2. Reduce cholesterol
Scallions can reduce the accumulation of bad cholesterol, often eat scallions, even if fat fat, its cholesterol does not increase, and physical strength. The leafy part of the scallion contains more vitamins A and C and calcium than the white part.
3. Relieve fatigue
Raw onions, like onions, contain allyl sulfide, which stimulates the secretion of gastric juices and helps increase appetite. When consumed together with foods containing high levels of vitamin B1, it promotes the conversion of food starch and sugar into heat, which can relieve fatigue.
4. The various vitamins in the onion can ensure the normal secretion of human hormones, but also effectively stimulate the libido, so that the "yang yin". Therefore, for men, eat 3 times a week onion or fine scallions, fried vegetables, cold food, can also be used as a flavoring agent, in order to achieve the efficacy of the yang yang yin.
5. Detoxification and flavoring
Scallions are pungent in taste and slightly warm in nature, and they have the effect of publishing Yang, detoxification and flavoring. Mainly used for wind-cold cold, Yin cold abdominal pain, cold fever, headache, nasal congestion, lactation, two unfavorable. Onion contains volatile oil, the main component of the oil is allicin, and also contains diallyl sulfide, calcium oxalate. In addition, also contains fat, sugar, carotene, etc., vitamin B, C, niacin, calcium, magnesium, iron and other ingredients.
6. Prevent cancer
Scallions contain pectin, can significantly reduce the occurrence of colon cancer, anti-cancer effect. Scallions within the allicin can also inhibit the growth of cancer cells; scallions also contain trace elements of selenium, can reduce the content of nitrite in the gastric juice, on the prevention of stomach cancer and a variety of cancers have a certain role.
7. Sweating and anti-bacterial
Scallions have to stimulate the body's sweat glands to achieve the role of sweating; scallion oil can stimulate the upper respiratory tract, so that mucus phlegm is easy to cough up. Allicin contained in the onion, with obvious resistance to bacteria, viruses, especially dysentery bacilli and skin fungi inhibitory effect is stronger.