5 familiar vegetables are precious medicinal items

Crabs, amaranth, water coconut vegetables, bitter vegetables, vegetables grown in the fields and river banks are remedies for many diseases.

According to pharmacist Le Kim Phung, former lecturer of Ho Chi Minh City University of Medicine and Pharmacy, familiar vegetables in Vietnamese daily meals can help cure and enhance health.

Vegetable crabs

Crab claws are used to treat abdominal pain, rheumatism . can process many familiar dishes.(Photo: GDV).

This vegetable grows much in wet soil. Active ingredients from crab vegetables have anti-inflammatory, analgesic, antibacterial, antifungal effect. Crab crabs also make medicine for abdominal pain, abscess, acne, scalds, gout, rheumatism .

Some countries in the world also use whole crabs to cure cough, high fever, heal wounds, lower cholesterol . Every day you should use 100 to 200 g of fresh vegetables or extract concentrated extract many times. drink during the day.

Spinach

Amaranth is sweet, cool, has diuretic, antiseptic, detoxifying effects. In leaf vegetables contain vitamins A, B, C, PP, many protid especially lysine with higher content than corn, wheat and soybeans.

Use 200 to 500 g of boiled spinach and drink water every day to help clear urine, laxative, cure constipation, dysentery, allergies, rashes, burning insects. Using flowers and amaranth seeds to cure heat and blurred vision.

Vegetable water coconut

This vegetable has spongy stems that help the tree float on the water surface, growing wild in many fields, ponds and ditches. Vegetable water coconut has high nutritional value, contains many protid, glucide, fiber, calcium, phosphorus, iron, carotene, vitamin C, flavonoit and tannin.

Vegetables have a sweet taste, cool properties, detoxifying heat effects, diuretic also used to treat fever, abdominal pain, used to crush finely treat snake bites, pimples, swollen. People can eat vegetables with stock or boiled soup.

Bitter vegetables

Bitter vegetables grow wildly along the river banks, the beach has a bitter taste, coolness helps to clear urine, livers . (Photo: GC).

This tree is also called round leaf bitter vegetable, grows wild on dry land next to river and coastal areas, the most in the Mekong Delta.

Bitter vegetables have bitter taste, cool properties, help with liver, urinate, treat menopause. In addition, vegetables are used to treat diseases such as jaundice, hives, and fever. You should pick at the time when the tree is not flowered, clean, eat raw or make vegetables with snakehead porridge. Everyday use 50-100g to cook soup or sharpener to drink water.

Vegetable salad

The vegetables are slightly bitter, cool, contain glycosit, saponin, mucus, organic acids, potassium salts and vitamins such as A, B1, B2, C, PP. Vegetables have effects on heat detoxification, blood purification, laxative, worm removal, sedation. This vegetable is used to treat acute enteritis, intestinal parasites such as roundworm, pinworm (extra milk grass), bloody bowel movement (more squid grass, cheeks), whooping cough, long-term cough .

Each day should eat 15 to 30 g of dry leaves or 50 to 100 g of fresh leaves for drinking water. Can be eaten as raw vegetables, cooked or cooked with vegetable sauce. In addition, you can pound finely to fix pimples and beard.