Benefits of leek
Appetite
Leek contains plant aromatic volatile oil, which has the effect of stimulating appetite. It is beneficial to improve health for the elderly, children and pregnant women to eat some spring leeks properly.
Nourishing liver and stomach
Leek contains volatile essential oil, sulfide and other special components, emitting a unique pungent smell, which helps to regulate liver qi, stimulate appetite and enhance digestive function.
Dispelling blood stasis and promoting blood circulation
Leek has the effect of removing blood stasis, promoting blood circulation and detoxicating, which is beneficial to lowering blood lipid and preventing and treating coronary heart disease, anemia and arteriosclerosis.
Eating leeks is taboo:
(1) People with excessive fire due to yin deficiency should not eat leek, which is pungent and warm to help yang. It can dry up the fire and exhaust the true yin. Animal experiments show that it can cause mania, spasm and even death of the animals being tested, so "Seeking Truth from Materia Medica" says: "Fire due to yin deficiency is the most taboo."
(2) You should not eat more leeks in summer. They are aging, with coarse fibers, which are not easy to be absorbed. In summer, gastrointestinal function is reduced, and eating more will cause abdominal distension, discomfort or diarrhea.
(3) When eating, it should not be heated for too long. Leek is rich in vitamin B. Heating can destroy this tonic. The longer the heating time, the more damage it will be. Therefore, it should not be eaten after long-term heating.
(4) Leek should not be eaten raw, because it is rich in cellulose and difficult to digest, and unlike onion and garlic, which can be peeled before eating, the edible part is close to the ground, which often pollutes the eggs of microorganisms and parasites, and there are many ramets, which are not easy to wash clean and easily infected with diseases, so it is not suitable for raw food.
(5) You should not eat leeks with honey at the same time. They are rich in vitamin C. When eaten with honey at the same time, the vitamin C contained in leeks is easily oxidized by copper and iron ions contained in honey and loses its function. It is also honey-like and smooth, and leek is rich in cellulose, which can guide diarrhea. When eaten together, it can lead to diarrhea. Therefore, the compendium of materia medica says, "Do not eat with honey."
(6) When taking vitamin K, you should not eat foods that contain too much vitamin C. This product has a high vitamin C content, which can reduce the curative effect of vitamin K..
(7) It is not suitable to eat with liquor, which may lead to gastritis, ulcer, liver disease and hemorrhagic disease.
(8) It is not suitable to eat with beef, which is easy to cause gum inflammation.