The benefits of eating more leeks

Although leek is a very common vegetable on the table of ordinary people, its aphrodisiac effect is obvious.

Chinese chives

Traditional medicine believes that leek is warm in nature, can warm the kidney and assist yang, benefit the spleen and stomach, and promote qi and blood circulation. Eating more leek can nourish the liver and strengthen the qi of the spleen and stomach. The sulfur-containing compounds in leek have the effect of lowering blood lipids and dilating blood vessels, and are suitable for the treatment of cardiovascular and cerebrovascular diseases and hypertension. In addition, this compound can also enhance the function of the tyrosine system in melanocytes, thereby regulating the melanin of skin hair follicles, eliminating white spots on the skin, and making the hair black and shiny. Leek can cure diseases. Using leek juice to drip into the nose can treat heatstroke and coma. Putting leek on the fire to heat it and rubbing it on the affected area can treat urticaria. Leek contains a lot of dietary fiber, which has a significant effect on colon cancer. Women with skin vitiligo can achieve the dual effects of removing spots and losing weight by eating leek regularly. Leek contains sexual stimulants that can excite sexual organs and is known as "yang-raising grass" in the pharmacopoeia. Leek contains more dietary fiber, which can promote gastrointestinal motility and effectively prevent habitual constipation and colon cancer. These dietary fibers can also wrap up hair, gravel, and even metal in the digestive tract and excrete them with feces, so it is known as "intestinal cleansing grass". In addition, because leeks contain more dietary fiber and are more chewy, people can exercise their chewing muscles when eating, which can also effectively prevent the occurrence of tooth decay.

Medicinal Diet Therapy

【Introduction】 Chives are the leaves of the leek plant of the Liliaceae family. It is also known as grass stalactite, yang-raising grass or aphrodisiac grass.

【Function】It can nourish the kidney and strengthen yang, strengthen the spleen and warm the stomach. It is mainly used to treat kidney yang deficiency, soreness and coldness of waist and knees, impotence and premature ejaculation, frequent urination, etc.; spleen and stomach deficiency and coldness, hiccups and nausea, cold pain in the abdomen, diarrhea or constipation, etc.

【Nature and flavor and meridians】Warm in nature, spicy in taste. Renpai, stomach, kidney meridians.

[Dosage and Usage] For internal use: mash the juice and drink it, 50-100 grams per day, or fry it and eat it as a dish. For external use: mash it and apply it, take the juice and drip it, stir-fry it and simmer it or boil it in water for fumigation and washing.

[Modern research] The leaves contain sulfides, glycosides and bitter substances, and are rich in carotene, vitamin C, and minerals such as calcium, phosphorus, and iron.

【Application of tonic】1. Kidney yang deficiency, sore waist and knees, frequent urination, male impotence and premature ejaculation, turbid spermatorrhea, increased leucorrhea in women, dysmenorrhea, children's enuresis and spleen and stomach deficiency and cold, cold pain in the abdomen, hiccups and nausea, cold diarrhea or constipation. Leek porridge: fresh leeks and polished rice in appropriate amounts. Wash the leeks and brew them into thin sections for later use. Wash the polished rice, put it in a pot, add water, boil it with high heat first, then simmer it with low heat for 10 to 20 minutes, add the leeks, and cook until the rice is cooked. It can be used for breakfast, dinner or snacks, and should be eaten immediately after cooking, and should not be left overnight.

2. Weak kidney yang, impotence and premature ejaculation, sore waist and knees or physical weakness, constipation. Stir-fried leek with walnut meat: 200 grams of leek, 50 grams of walnut meat, vegetable oil and salt as needed. Wash the leek, cut into sections and set aside. Wash the walnut meat and fry it in sesame oil until it turns yellow, then add the leek and stir-fry, add salt as needed, and turn off the heat when it is cooked. Eat as a dish.

3. For vomiting after eating, dull pain in the chest and abdomen, dry mouth and throat, and difficult bowel movements caused by loss of body fluid and upward stomach qi, use three juices to soothe the stomach: 2 cups of leek juice, 1 cup of ginger juice, and 1 cup of milk. Add ginger juice and milk to the leek juice and boil over low heat. Swallow slowly while it is warm.

4. For choking, nausea, and dull pain in the chest, soak raw leek leaves in boiling water, smash them and take the juice, 3 times a day, 100 ml each time.

5. For hemorrhoids, rectal prolapse, and uterine prolapse, boil leek roots in water, put them in a bamboo tube, and sit and fumigate them while they are hot. Do this twice a day. It will gradually shrink until the symptoms are healed.

6. For uterine bleeding, take 5 liang of leeks and cook them with glutinous rice wine.

7. For chronic constipation, mash 1 cup of leek root and leaf juice and drink it with warm water and a little wine.

8. For nosebleed, take 1 cup of mashed leek juice, drink it cold in summer and warm in winter. For nosebleed caused by yin deficiency and blood heat, wash and mash fresh leek roots and plug them into the nostrils.

.For stubborn ringworms, dry chives, grind them into fine powder, mix with lard and apply to the affected area;

For psoriasis, use 30 grams each of raw leeks and garlic, mash them into a paste, heat them and rub the affected area vigorously, once a day for several days.

10. For allergic dermatitis, apply mashed leek juice externally several times a day.

11. For pityriasis versicolor, mash leek juice and apply it to the affected area twice every morning.

Use continuously for 4 to 5 days.

12. For impotence and sperm production, grind leek seeds into powder, take 10 grams each morning and evening with boiled water.

13. Boil leukorrhea with vinegar, dry and grind leek seeds into powder, then make pills with honey.

Take with wine on an empty stomach, 30 pills each time (pills as big as sycamore seeds).

14. For dysentery and heartache, remove the tips of a handful of leeks and take the juice, mix it with a cup of wine, and it is called "leek juice wine". Drink it warm.

15. For night sweats and spontaneous sweating, take an appropriate amount of leek root decoction, twice a day.

16. For nausea and vomiting during pregnancy, take 50 ml of leek juice, 10 ml of ginger juice, add appropriate amount of sugar and drink it with water.