Celery is a common vegetable with good quality and low price. It is not only rich in insoluble fiber, calcium, magnesium, potassium and carotene, but also an excellent source of B vitamins and vitamin C.

"Materia Medica" records that celery "treats liver-yang headache, red face and red eyes, top-heavy, wobbly walking and other symptoms." In addition to clearing liver and purging fire, what effect does eating celery often have?

What are the benefits of celery?

1 Lowering blood pressure and calming liver

Animal experiments show that celery juice has obvious hypotensive effect on rabbits and dogs after intravenous injection.

Clinically, celery leaves also have a good effect on primary, pregnancy and menopausal hypertension.

However, the salt content of celery stalk is particularly high, and 1 kg celery stalk contains 2 grams of salt, so if you want to take advantage of the antihypertensive effect of celery, you must put less or even no salt in cooking.

2 clearing away heat and toxic materials

Celery tastes bitter and cool, and has the functions of clearing away heat and toxic materials, promoting fluid production and quenching thirst, and obviously relieves thirst caused by dry climate and excessive internal heat.

People who often have excessive liver fire, rough skin, insomnia and headache can eat more celery appropriately.

3 Calm and soothe the nerves

There is an experimental surface, an alkaline component in celery seed, which has sedative effect on animals and human body.

Conducive to calm emotions, eliminate irritability, and help to lower blood pressure mentally.

4 remove dental plaque

The crude fiber in celery is like a broom, which can not only remove some food residues and tartar from teeth, but also stimulate saliva secretion when chewing, thus playing an antibacterial and caries-preventing role.

Eat celery, not just stems.

Nutritionists tested the nutritional components of celery stems and leaves, and found that many indexes in celery leaves exceeded those in stems.

Nicotinic acid, vitamin B2 and vitamin C in celery leaves are more than twice as much as those in stems, while magnesium is 3.2 times as much as that in stems, and carotene is 8.6 times as much as that in stems.

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Traditional Chinese medicine believes that celery leaves are cool, sweet and non-toxic, and have the functions of dissipating heat, expelling wind and promoting diuresis, invigorating stomach and cooling blood, clearing intestine and relaxing bowels, moistening lung and relieving cough, lowering blood pressure, strengthening brain and tranquilizing the mind, and the antihypertensive effect is far superior to celery stems.

So, don't throw away celery leaves next time you eat celery. Apart from celery leaves, celery root, which is easily overlooked by us, is the most nutritious part of celery.

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Celery root has the functions of clearing heat, diuresis and lowering blood pressure, and is suitable for hypertension, insomnia and tracheitis.

People with insomnia can also boil celery root into soup and drink it before going to bed, which can relieve insomnia. Boiling water with celery root can relieve hypertension and headache well.

Celery is good, but any kind of food eaten alone can't achieve all kinds of magical effects. With other foods, the nutritional value of food can be fully exerted.

Nutritional eating method of celery

In order to give full play to the efficacy of celery, we must first distinguish the types of celery.

Celery is divided into celery, celery and medicinal celery. If you want to achieve the purpose of diet therapy, it is best to choose celery and medicinal celery.

Medicinal celery, that is, ordinary China celery; Parsley has thinner stems, and their effects are similar.

Qin Xiang tends to clear the lung and eliminate phlegm, while heptachord tends to calm the liver and promote diuresis. Celery can be used to lower blood sugar and regulate blood pressure.

Here are some delicious and nutritious ways to eat celery ~

Cold celery leaves

Ingredients: 200g celery leaves, garlic, sesame oil, salt and soy sauce.

Exercise:

1. Wash celery leaves, blanch with boiling water, take out, rinse with cold water, and plate.

2. Add minced garlic, sesame oil, a little salt and soy sauce to celery leaves and mix well.

Fried shrimps with celery

Ingredients: celery stalk 1 00g, shrimp 50g, peanut oil15ml, ginger 2g, onion 5g, garlic 5g, salt1g.

Exercise:

1. Wash celery and pat it flat with a kitchen knife.

2. Remove the shrimp line, cut the celery into sections, cut the onion into small pieces, shred the ginger, pat the garlic flat and cut into small pieces for later use.

3. Put oil in a hot pot, add onion, ginger, garlic and shrimp and stir fry.

4. Stir fry until the shrimps change color.

5. Add celery and stir fry until it is broken. Add a little salt and mix well when taking out the pot.

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