Bok choy
Family is the stem and leaves of the cruciferous plant bok choy.
Alias Brassica napus, Brassica oleracea, oil cabbage.
Sex and flavor: warm, sweet, non-toxic; human lung, stomach, large intestine meridian.
Effects and IndicationsClearing heat and removing vexation, promoting the flow of Qi, eliminating blood stasis, subduing swelling and dispersing knots, and facilitating the flow of the stomach and intestines. It is used for treating lung-heat cough, body heat, thirst, chest tightness, heartburn, constipation and abdominal distension with little food.
Nutritional composition per 100 grams containing 94.5 grams of water, 1.3 grams of protein 0.3 grams of fat, 2.3 grams of carbohydrates, 0.6 grams of crude fiber, 10 grams of ash, 1.49 milligrams of carotene, 0.03 milligrams of vitamin B1, vitamin B20.08 milligrams of vitamin B1, 0.6 milligrams of niacin, 40 milligrams of vitamin C, calcium 56 milligrams of phosphorus 32 milligrams of iron, 1.2 milligrams of potassium. 1.2 mg, potassium 346 mg, sodium 66 mg, magnesium 23.4 mg, and chlorine 120 mg.
The therapeutic effect
1. Provide nutrition, strengthen the body Green vegetables for one of the richest vegetables containing vitamins and minerals, an adult if you eat 500 grams of green vegetables every day, to meet the human body's needs of vitamins, carotenoids, calcium, iron, etc., to ensure that the body's physiological needs to provide the physical conditions that will help enhance the immune ability of the organism.
2. Maintaining vascular elasticity Green vegetables contain a lot of crude fiber, which into everyone's body and the combination of fat, can prevent the formation of plasma cholesterol, cholesterol metabolites - bile acid can be discharged to reduce the formation of atherosclerosis, so as to maintain vascular elasticity.
3. moisturize the skin, delay aging Green vegetables contain a large number of carotene (1 times more than beans, more than tomatoes, melons 4 times) and vitamin C, into the human body, can promote the metabolism of the skin cells, to prevent skin roughness and hyperpigmentation, so that the skin is bright. Delay aging.
4. Anti-Cancer Vitamin C contained in bok choy, in the body will form a "hyaluronic acid inhibitor", this substance has an anti-cancer effect, can make the cancer cells lose vitality. In addition, the crude fiber contained in the green vegetables can promote peristalsis, increase the discharge of toxins in the colon, to achieve the purpose of cancer prevention and anti-cancer.
Health care recipes
1. vegetables rice round-grained rice, vegetables 50O grams. Take fresh cabbage heart, wash and cut fine; lard in the iron pot hot, add cabbage heart quickly stir-fried, under the appropriate amount of salt, soy sauce, start the pot; polished round-grained rice, add water for steaming, rice is seven mature, put into the fried cabbage heart, and evenly cooked until the rice can be cooked. This rice is light and delicious, with the spleen and stomach, laxative effect. Apply to poor appetite, loss of appetite, bowel movements, hemorrhoids and other diseases.
2. greens fried mixed fruit 500 grams of greens, white fruit, bamboo shoots, mushrooms 25 grams each, 5O grams of shredded meat, ginger juice. Wash and cut section; white fruit, mushrooms, shredded meat were fried in oil; bamboo shoots slices blanched; pot on high heat, add sesame oil, hot, dumped into the section of the green vegetables, a little stir-fry, pouring into the fried fruits, cooked shredded meat, bamboo shoots, mushrooms, etc., and then add soy sauce, ginger stir-fry to even, from the pot on the plate. This dish is rich in nutrients, has a moisturizing lungs and stomach, delay the effects of aging, weak and sick people eat the beneficial.
3. green cabbage lion head 500 grams of green cabbage, 50 grams of meat. Pork washed and chopped. Chopped into minced meat, add salt, kneaded into a ball shape, first steamed to make the meat stick together, standby; with high fire brussels sprouts, into the meat round, add soy sauce, salt, cooking wine, boiling can be. This dish has the effect of nourishing yin and moistening dryness, tonifying the spleen and stomach, on the fever and thirst, poor appetite has an auxiliary therapeutic effect.
4. light bamboo leaves mushroom heart light bamboo leaves, canned mushrooms 250 grams each, cabbage heart 12, ginger. Mangosteen leaves with water to take juice 100 ml; canned mushrooms dry; bok choy washed, ginger Parsons spare; frying pan on the fire, pour half of the mangosteen soup, add salt, monosodium glutamate (MSG), put people burned Qinglei, just cooked that is fished out of the row of dishes; frying pan on the fire, add peanut oil, sautéed ginger, and then poured the other half of the mangosteen soup, put mushrooms burned, put the bok choy on the soup; soup salt, MSG, hook starch thickening, will be poured on the soup on the mushrooms and the bok choy. Mushrooms and bok choy that is to become. This dish has the effect of antipyretic and diuretic, clearing the oral cavity. Apply to urinary unfavorable, oral ulceration, tongue small sores and other diseases.