Since ancient Greece and Rome, people have known the wonderful uses of this vegetable.
BSCKII Huynh Tan Vu, University of Medicine and Pharmacy Hospital, Ho Chi Minh City, said that cabbage - a staple vegetable in the Brassicaceae family - is a fairly popular vegetable for Vietnamese people.
Since ancient Greece and Rome, people have known about the nutritional, medicinal and beauty benefits of cabbage. In Europe, cabbage has been used as medicine since ancient times, and is known as "medicine for the poor".
Nowadays, cabbage is known to have many health benefits with many nutritional values. Specifically, 100g of cabbage contains: 0.8g lipid, 1.7g fiber, 2.4g total minerals. cabbage is a vegetable that contains a lot of vitamin C, vitamin P.
Doctor Vu said that cabbage juice helps to strengthen the stomach . In 1948, scientists discovered that cabbage contains an anti-ulcer substance called vitamin U , which helps to treat gastric and duodenal ulcers, gastritis, and colitis.
Cabbage juice is good for health. (illustrative photo).
According to folk experience, the effect of cabbage juice will be increased if mixed with celery juice.
According to Dr. Vu, some research from New York University shows that eating cabbage regularly helps reduce the risk of digestive tract cancer.
Nowadays, people have known many uses of cabbage such as treating worms, healing scars of wounds and pimples. Cabbage juice is also considered a medicine to fight nervous stimulation, insomnia.
According to Oriental medicine, cabbage is sweet, cold, non-toxic, has the effect of activating blood circulation, stopping bleeding, diuretic, clearing the lungs, clearing heat, eliminating phlegm, detoxifying, producing body fluids, quenching thirst, cooling the stomach, and nourishing the spleen and stomach.
Cabbage is benign but Dr. Vu noted that it should not be used for people with cold constitution. If you want to use it, you must combine it with fresh ginger . People with constipation and little urination should not eat raw cabbage or pickled cabbage but must cook it.
Cabbage contains a small amount of goitrin , which is an antioxidant, but it can cause goiter if eaten in large amounts. People with thyroid disorders or goiter should not eat cabbage because it will cause the thyroid gland or goiter to enlarge.
If you want to eat cabbage, only eat a moderate amount. Before eating, you should cut each leaf, soak and wash it, then chop it finely. Leave it for 10-15 minutes before cooking. This will cause the goitrin to decompose completely.
People with severe kidney failure or those undergoing dialysis should not use cabbage.
