1, clearing heat and cooling blood

Bitter vegetables are bitter and cold in nature, with the effect of clearing heat and cooling blood. It can be used to treat dysentery, jaundice, hemorrhagic drenching, hemorrhoidal fistula, healing swelling. Diannan Materia Medica" is recorded as "cool blood heat, cold stomach, hair belly in the abdomen, please accumulate, water." Compendium of Materia Medica, "treatment of hemorrhoids hemorrhoid rash". Spleen and stomach cold people avoid eating.

2, blood elimination

Bitter greens are rich in carotene, vitamin C and potassium salts, calcium salts, etc., on the prevention and treatment of anemia, to maintain the body's normal physiological activities, health care has a better role.

3, sterilization and anti-inflammatory

Bitter greens contain taraxerol, choline and other components, has a strong bactericidal effect on jaundiced hepatitis, pharyngitis, bacterial dysentery, colds and fever and chronic bronchitis, tonsillitis, etc. have a certain effect.

4, refreshing brain

Bitter greens and bitter foods with a certain degree of theobromine and caffeine, after consumption of the brain, there is a sense of comfort and ease of mind, which allows people to relax from the psychological state of the summer heat annoyance, so as to restore energy.

5, regulate the acid-base balance

Bitter food can also regulate the acid-base balance in the body. Acidic foods include cereals, rice and noodles, sugar, meat, eggs, etc. If you only consume this type of food, the blood will be close to acidic. When the body's blood acidification, people's hands and feet will be cold, easy to catch a cold, wounds are not easy to heal, and in serious cases can directly affect the brain and nerve function. To prevent "acidic body", we should eat a moderate amount of fruits and vegetables belonging to the alkaline food, especially those bitter food. This can prevent the body from becoming too acidic and neutralize the acidity to achieve the body's acid-base balance.

Bitter vegetables have a low calorie count of 35 calories/100g, which is more suitable for weight loss. Moreover, the feeling of satiety is quite strong, and the bitter flavoring it contains can also prevent fat from being absorbed.

7, promote development

Bitter cabbage young leaves in the amino acid species complete, and the proportion between the various amino acids is appropriate. Consumption of bitter vegetable helps to promote the synthesis of antibodies in the body, enhance immunity to promote brain function. Bitter cabbage in the rich iron is conducive to the prevention of anemia, a variety of inorganic salts and trace elements is conducive to the growth and development of children, a variety of vitamins can promote wound healing, to prevent vitamin deficiency.

8, prevention and treatment of cancer

Bitter cabbage is rich in vitamin B17, which has a powerful ability to kill cancer cells. Bitter cabbage decoction of acute lymphoblastic leukemia acute and chronic granulocytic leukemia patients with blood cell deoxygenase has a significant inhibitory effect, but also for the prevention of cervical cancer, rectal cancer, anal cancer.

Australian scientists have done experiments in the thigh muscles of mice inoculated with sarcoma, one week later, subcutaneous injection of extracts of bitter herbs, 48 hours after the killing of the mice, the naked eye and microscopic observation, can be seen in the sarcoma obvious hemorrhage, necrosis, proving that the bitter herbs extracts of anti-tumor effects.

Second, the bitter vegetable edible method

Bitter cabbage is bitter wild vegetables, but rich in nutrients, there are a variety of vitamins, minerals, sugars, etc. The human body needs. Edible parts of the young stem and leaves of the bitter vegetable, before eating should be placed in salted water for a long time or blanch in boiling water for 1 to 2 minutes, rinsing water, to remove the bitter taste. Then it can be fried, cold, can also be stuffed, roasted soup, but also can be made into canned wild vegetables, pickled sauerkraut.

(A) home cooking methods

1, bitter vegetables fried pork liver

Ingredients: 250g of bitter vegetables, 150g of pork liver and cooking wine, salt, monosodium glutamate (MSG), soy sauce, wet starch, green onions, ginger, lard and other seasonings.

Practice:

(1)Wash the bitter vegetable, blanch in boiling water, fish out and wash away the bitter taste cut section.

(2) pig liver washed and sliced, add cooking wine, salt, monosodium glutamate, soy sauce, wet starch and mix well.

(3) frying pan hot add onion, ginger stir incense, pour into the pig liver stir-fry until cooked and flavorful, into the bitter vegetable stir-fry to taste, out of the pot that is complete.

Effects: This dish has the effect of clearing heat and detoxification, tonifying the liver and brightening the eyes. It is suitable for yellow face, swelling, anemia, blurred eyes, night blindness, pediatric chancre and other diseases.

2, bitter vegetables fried meat

Instruments: 250g of bitter vegetables, 150g of pork and cooking wine, monosodium glutamate (MSG), scallions, ginger and other seasonings.

Practice:

(1)Wash the bitter vegetable, into the boiling water blanch, fish out of the rinsing to remove the bitter cut section, pork washed and sliced.

(2) wine, salt, monosodium glutamate, soy sauce, green onions and ginger with the bowl and stir into the gravy.

(3) frying pan is hot, under the pork stir-fry, pouring the gravy burned to taste, out of the pan that is complete.

Effects: This dish has a heat detoxification, nourishing yin and moist effect. Applicable to yin deficiency cough, thirst, jaundice, dysentery, hemorrhoidal fistula, constipation and other diseases of the diet.

3, bitter vegetables pumpkin soup

Instruments: 150 grams of bitter vegetables, pumpkin 50 grams, 10 grams of umeboshi.

Practice:

(1) Take 50 grams of pumpkin, peeled, cut into pieces and then boiled soup.

(2) Boil the water and then add the umeboshi to the pot.

(3)When cooked, put the bitter vegetables into the pot, no need to cover, the water boiled that is.

Effects: Clearing heat and removing toxins, generating fluids and quenching thirst, lowering blood sugar.

4, bitter vegetables cold

Washed bitter vegetables with boiling water blanching 1 minute, drained, with cold water. Accompanied by chili oil, monosodium glutamate, salt, sesame oil, vinegar, garlic, etc., can also be mixed according to their own tastes into different flavors of small dishes.

5, bitter beet brown sugar water

The bitter beet stems and leaves washed, drained, slightly bitter, with brown sugar, taste fresh and fragrant and refreshing. Especially the Yang deficiency external cold, weak spleen and stomach more need to match with brown sugar.

6, bitter vegetable filling

The bitter vegetable young stem and leaves after washing water blanching, a little clench, chopped, plus condiments into a filling (can also add meat) wrapped dumplings or buns.

(B) used in traditional Chinese medicine formulas

1, the bitter herbs 6 a 24 grams, honeysuckle, dandelion, purple flowers, 12 grams each, decoction of dregs, 2 times a day to serve.

Effects: This diet is used for appendicitis, women's pelvic inflammatory disease, multiple abscesses

2, bitter herbs, plantain 30 grams, decoction of dregs, tea, drink more. This diet is used for pyelonephritis

3, 30 grams of bitter herbs, 9 grams of Buddha's hand, decoction, allegedly a course of treatment (7 days), appetite, jaundice subsided, hepatomegaly disappeared. This dietary therapy is mostly used for acute infectious jaundice hepatitis.

4, internal, decoction, 9-15 grams (60-120 grams of fresh); external pounding. Use with caution if the spleen and stomach are weak.