Today, Du Ying, deputy chief physician of Gynecology Department I of our hospital, came to talk with you.
"Men don't leave leeks and women don't leave lotus roots" is a popular folk saying, which means that men should eat more leeks and women should eat more lotus roots. Leek and lotus root are common foods in life. These two foods have different nutritional values and are beneficial to the health of men and women respectively.
In fact, from the perspective of traditional Chinese medicine and nutrition, the words of our ancestors are not unreasonable.
Then let's take a look at the ingredients and effects of leek and lotus root respectively.
Components of leek
Efficacy of leek
1. Stimulate appetite: Chinese chives contain special components such as plant aromatic volatile oil and sulfide, giving off a unique pungent smell, which can stimulate appetite and enhance digestive function;
2. Removing blood stasis and promoting blood circulation: The pungent smell of leek has the effect of removing blood stasis and promoting blood circulation, which is beneficial to the human body to reduce blood lipid and prevent coronary heart disease, anemia and arteriosclerosis.
3, laxative: leek contains a lot of vitamins and crude fiber, which can promote gastrointestinal peristalsis, treat constipation and prevent intestinal cancer.
4, sterilization and anti-inflammatory: The sulfur-containing compounds contained in leeks have certain bactericidal and anti-inflammatory effects, which can inhibit Pseudomonas aeruginosa, dysentery, typhoid fever, Escherichia coli and Staphylococcus aureus.
5, skin care and eyesight: leek is rich in vitamin A, which can not only beautify skin care, improve eyesight and moisten lungs, but also reduce the chance of catching a cold, catching a cold and asthma.
6, tonifying kidney and strengthening yang: The ancients called leek "aphrodisiac grass", which can prevent and treat symptoms of kidney deficiency such as impotence, polyuria, low back pain and knee weakness. In particular, leek seeds have the effects of warming liver and kidney, strengthening yang, fixing sperm and warming waist and knees.
The function of leek recorded in ancient Chinese medicine books
"Bielu": Anwu Zang, in addition to stomach heat.
Herbal dietotherapy: benefiting the chest and diaphragm.
Notes on Materia Medica: Warming the middle warmer and lowering the qi, tonifying deficiency, harmonizing viscera, making people eat it, Yiyang, stopping pus discharge from mortar, and boiling it with cold pain in abdomen. Leaves and roots are crushed into juice, which is an antidote to mad dogs that want to bite; It can also kill snakes, slugs, scorpions and poisonous insects.
"Rihuazi Herbal Medicine": It stops bleeding and warms the waist and knees. It is eaten by fat people except for chills, chest chills, anorexia and abdominal pain. Apoplexy aphonia, heart and spleen and stomach pain, raw research clothes, snake and dog bite bad sores, tamping.
Addendum to Materia Medica: Studying cold drinks can dispel blood stasis and diaphragm, and replenish liver qi.
"Danxi Heart Therapy": If the menstrual blood is retrograde, or if it is bloody, or vomits blood or vomits blood, take it with leek juice. People who fall should drink leek juice or eat with porridge.
Southern Yunnan herbs: moisten the stomach, or eat gold, silver and copper in the stomach.
Outline: When drinking raw juice, the main body breathes to detoxify bacon. Boil juice to drink, quench thirst, night sweats, smoke pregnant women to promote blood circulation, wash intestines and hemorrhoids, and proctoptosis.
Guizhou folk prescription and drug collection: it can cure asthma and roar for a long time, and it can also dredge menstruation and promote lactation.
It seems that both men and women can eat leeks. However, it should be noted that people with cold constitution and yang deficiency constitution are more suitable for eating, whereas people with yin deficiency and yang hyperactivity are not suitable for eating.
Although leek has many benefits to human body, it is not the more the better. Compendium of Materia Medica once recorded: "Eating more leeks makes people dizzy, especially after drinking." Leek contains a lot of crude fiber, which is not easy to digest and absorb, so you can't eat too much leek at a time, otherwise a lot of crude fiber will stimulate the intestinal wall and often cause diarrhea.
Let's talk about lotus root again.
Lotus root is slightly sweet and crisp, and can be eaten raw or cooked. It is one of the common dishes. Lotus root is also a kind of plant with high medicinal value. Its roots, leaves, flowers and fruits are all treasures, which can be nourishing and used as medicine. Lotus root powder can help digestion, stop diarrhea, stimulate appetite, clear away heat, nourish and prevent internal bleeding. It is a good liquid food and tonic for women, children and patients.
Composition of lotus root
Water content is 77.9g, protein 1.0g, Lipitor 0. 1g, carbohydrate 19.8g, heat 84kcal, crude fiber 0.5mg, ash 0.7g, calcium 19g and phosphorus 5 1mg.
The efficacy of lotus root: raw products clear away heat and promote fluid production, cool blood and stop bleeding; Familiar with spleen and stomach, benefiting blood and promoting granulation.
1. Clearing heat and cooling blood: Lotus root is cold, which has the effect of clearing heat and cooling blood and can be used to treat fever; Lotus root is sweet and light, which is especially beneficial to people with fever, thirst, epistaxis and hemoptysis.
2. Purging bowels and stopping diarrhea, invigorating spleen and appetizing: Lotus root contains mucin and dietary fiber, which can be combined with cholate in human body, cholesterol and triglyceride in food, so that it can be discharged from feces, thereby reducing the absorption of lipids. Lotus root gives off a unique fragrance, and also contains tannin, which has certain functions of invigorating spleen, stopping diarrhea, stimulating appetite, promoting digestion, stimulating appetite and strengthening the body, and is beneficial to the recovery of people with poor appetite.
3. Nourishing blood and promoting granulation: Lotus root has high nutritional value, is rich in trace elements such as iron and calcium, and is rich in plant protein, vitamins and starch, which has obvious functions of invigorating qi and blood and enhancing human immunity. Therefore, Chinese medicine calls it: "the Lord nourishes the spirit, benefiting qi and tonifying deficiency."
4. Hemostasis and blood stasis: Lotus root contains a lot of tannic acid, which has the effect of contracting blood vessels and can be used to stop bleeding. Lotus root can also cool blood and disperse blood. Traditional Chinese medicine believes that it can stop bleeding without leaving blood stasis, which is a good diet for fever.
The role of lotus root festival recorded in ancient Chinese medicine books
1, Compendium of Materia Medica: Removing blood stasis, clearing away heat and detoxifying.
2, "Materia Medica Seeking Truth": the taste of the knot is astringent. Tongsheng Di Tongzhi is good at stopping vomiting. Avoid iron.
3, "Materia Medica from the New": clearing away heat and toxic materials, eliminating stasis and resolving stagnation, and treating postpartum blood stasis.
Suitable for the crowd: the general population can eat it, so it is male and female.
1. It is especially suitable for the elderly, women and children, the infirm and sick, especially for patients with high fever, hematemesis, hypertension, liver disease, anorexia, iron deficiency anemia and malnutrition.
2. Lotus root is cold, so mothers should not eat it too early; Lotus root is cold and crisp when eaten raw, but it hinders the spleen and stomach. People with low digestive function of spleen and stomach and loose stool should not eat raw;
3. Lotus root decoction is taken orally, which has wide circulation of qi and charcoal can stop bleeding and remove blood stasis, and is used for various hemorrhagic diseases.
Therefore, men and women eat these foods, which can just regulate the body and help improve some bad symptoms of the body.
Tai Su wrote in Huangdi Neijing: "People eat food on an empty stomach, but patients take medicine". Traditional Chinese medicine has a theory of "homology of medicine and food" since ancient times. However, nutritious and beneficial food is not suitable for excessive consumption and abuse, and it is most suitable to eat moderately according to the seasonal climate and one's own physique.
Guidance expert
Ying Du
associate chief physician
Treatment of irregular menstruation, dysmenorrhea, gynecological inflammation, postpartum diseases, insomnia, menopausal syndrome, pregnancy preparation and conditioning, and female osteoporosis with combination of traditional Chinese and western medicine.
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