Three types of 'bitter pungent' vegetables are good for health

Bitter melon, mugwort, and parsley are three types of bitter-tasting vegetables, which have a lot of effect on clearing the heat and blood, processing them into delicious summer food.

Bitter melon

Bitter melon also known as bitter melon, salary, fruit long lozenge, the outer surface has more convex u. Young fruits are greenish-yellow and ripe with yellowish-yellow fruits, surrounded by flattened seeds surrounded by red membrane. In our country, bitter melon is grown everywhere, can be cooked with shrimp, lean pork, security bones, steamed with minced meat, pickled salt, mannequin, stir-fry, stock, eat raw .

Bitter melon has many effects on blood, heat, erectile . (Image: Specialty Produce).

Doctor Bui Dac Sang, from the Academy of Science and Technology, said that the fruit has a bitter glycoside called momordicin and vitamins B1, C, amino acids like adenin, betain . The seeds contain oily and bitter substances. .

In Eastern medicine, bitter melon, coolness. This fruit has a cooling effect, cool blood, bright eyes, laxative, very suitable in the summer. Along with that, bitter seeds, sweetness, increasing energy, positive energy. United calculated cool, supporting the prevention of stomach ulcers. Leaves also help to detoxify the heat.

"A bitter melon is eaten raw or decoction will give the effect of heat clearing, detoxifying the best," said the doctor. In addition, dry leaves powdered, drink 12 g once with alcohol, or use crushed fresh leaves, hot distillation, treat painful boils.

Wormwood

Wormwood also called wormwood, medicine. Wormwood leaves collected all year round can be used as nutritious vegetables. In the fifth lunar month, harvest dried plants for medicinal use. Small dried leaves called wormwood velvet, used as bait to rescue.

Wormwood is bitter, slightly spicy, acrid smell, warmth, heat, antiseptic effect, an pregnancy, abdominal pain caused by roundworm.

Some nutritious dishes from mugwort, such as wormwood, egg, chicken, bird, cow, egg cover, and hotpot cooking. Wormwood excellent drink with fresh ginger, cinnamon, dry ginger treat abdominal pain, when sweating will cure fever, hit welding, headache .

Herbalist Sang noted that mugwort has an anaphylactic substance that causes irritation, so do not use too much.

Asparagus

Parsley is a delicious, high-class vegetable, the use level is less common than other vegetables because it is expensive, due to relatively sophisticated production techniques. In our country, asparagus is imported but the cultivation area is very meager.

Asparagus root has a bitter taste, diuretic and cooling effect. In 100 g of asparagus diet contains 93.7 g of water, the rest are minerals like calcium, phosphor . without vitamins. Asparagin has a significant amount of nitrogen compound asparagin, which is helpful for building, dividing and restoring body cells.

Asparagus can be eaten raw or boiled, cooked or decocted, cures kidney weakness, strengthens the mind.