"Common clothes are warm and vegetable roots are fragrant." In fact, many discarded things in the diet are also treasures. For example, vegetable roots also have high therapeutic and external medicinal value. As long as they are thoroughly cleaned and used rationally, they can be used. Nutritional health care, disease prevention and cure.

1. Cabbage root. It is sweet in taste and slightly cold in nature, and has the effects of clearing away heat and diuresis, relieving external symptoms and dispersing cold, nourishing the stomach and quenching thirst. Wash and slice the cabbage root into a decoction with ginger, scallions, etc. It can treat aversion to cold and fever in the early stages of a cold, as well as stomach heat and yin injuries.

2. Onion root. It is warm in nature and pungent in taste, and contains vitamin C and sugar. Mash green onion roots and light black soya bean into water, add brown sugar or cook it with an appropriate amount of rice to make porridge, which can prevent colds.

3. Eggplant root. It is sweet in taste and cold in nature, and contains a variety of alkaloids, vitamins B and C, carotene and fat. Chop the eggplant root and fry it into thick juice, add brown sugar and drink it to treat bronchitis.

4. Celery root. It tastes sweet and slightly bitter. Celery contains protein, fat, vitamins, phosphorus and calcium, which can strengthen the brain, refresh the mind, moisten the lungs and relieve cough. Decoction of celery root and jujube, eating jujube and drinking the soup, can prevent arteriosclerosis.

5. Leek root. It is pungent and warm in nature and flavor, and has the functions of warming the middle and promoting qi, dispersing blood and detoxifying, reducing swelling and relieving pain. Mash the leek root and apply it on the injured area to treat bruises.

6. Water spinach root. It is mild in nature, sweet in taste, contains protein, fat, vitamins B1, B2, vitamin C, etc. It has the effects of clearing heat, cooling blood, diuresis and detoxification. Decoction of 120 grams of water spinach root in water can treat dysentery; smashing it and applying it externally can treat swelling and pain from bruises; decoction and gargling can cure dental caries and toothache.

7. Spinach root. It is cool in nature and sweet in taste, and can nourish blood, stop bleeding, astringe yin, and moisturize dryness. Containing iron, protein, vitamins A, B1, B2, C, and vitamin K, which are generally lacking in fruits and vegetables, it helps prevent and treat bleeding tendencies in the skin and internal organs. In addition, regular consumption of spinach root can enhance physical fitness, beautify and detoxify, protect eyesight, and stabilize mood.