Nutritional Value of Celery

Celery belongs to the Umbelliferae family. Many people don't like to eat it because of its smell, but in fact, celery is very nutritious. So what are the nutritional values of celery ?

Nutritional Value

Clear away heat and relieve restlessness

Chinese medicine practitioners recommend that you eat more celery in summer because it has the effect of clearing away heat and relieving restlessness. Many people often experience various symptoms of restlessness and getting angry in summer. These symptoms will bring great inconvenience to our daily life and work, so eating more celery is an effective way to relieve these discomfort symptoms.

In addition to clearing away heat and relieving restlessness, eating more celery in daily life can also play a good role in calming the liver, promoting diuresis and reducing swelling, cooling blood and stopping bleeding. At the same time, it has a good effect and effect on headaches, dizziness , hot flashes and thirst caused by high blood pressure. At the same time, many people don’t know that eating more celery can actually effectively treat the symptoms of irregular menstruation in women.　

Lowering blood lipids

Celery has great pharmacological and therapeutic value. Studies have found that celery has a good effect in lowering blood pressure and blood lipids. It can be said that celery is a treasure from head to toe. Not only does its root and stem have good pharmacological effects, but its leaves and seeds can also be used as medicine. Therefore, experts recommend that patients with high blood pressure and high blood lipids should eat more celery in their daily lives to regulate blood lipids.

Celery also contains a large amount of calcium and phosphorus. Therefore, eating celery regularly can have a good calming and blood vessel protection effect. It can also quickly strengthen bones, which can effectively prevent osteoporosis for middle-aged and elderly people.

Sweet and cool stomach

Chinese medicine in my country points out that celery has a good effect of cooling the stomach and clearing the stomach, especially for poor appetite and indigestion caused by the hot weather in summer. Many people often have a loss of appetite in summer. At this time, eating more celery can not only effectively improve appetite, but also the crude fiber in celery can promote gastrointestinal motility, thereby promoting digestion.

Other therapeutic effects

1. Celery's liver-calming and blood pressure-lowering effects are mainly due to the acidic blood pressure-lowering components in celery. Animal experiments have shown that intravenous injection of celery has a significant blood pressure-lowering effect on rabbits and dogs. It is clinically effective for primary, gestational and menopausal hypertension. 2. An alkaline component isolated from celery seeds has a sedative effect on animals and can calm the nerves in humans, helping to calm emotions and eliminate irritability.

3. Celery contains diuretic active ingredients, which can eliminate sodium retention in the body, promote diuresis and reduce swelling. In clinical practice, celery decoction can be used to treat chyluria.

4. Celery is a high-fiber food with anti-cancer and cancer prevention effects. It produces a substance called lignin or enteric fat through intestinal digestion. This substance is an antioxidant that can inhibit the carcinogens produced by intestinal bacteria at high concentrations. It can also speed up the movement of feces in the intestine, reduce the contact between carcinogens and colon mucosa, and achieve the purpose of preventing colon cancer.

5. Celery has a high iron content, which can replenish the loss of women's menstrual blood. It is a good vegetable for patients with iron deficiency anemia. Eating it can prevent pale, dry skin, and dull complexion, and can make the eyes bright and the hair black and shiny.

6. Celery is the first choice for auxiliary treatment of hypertension and its complications. It also has an auxiliary therapeutic effect on patients with vascular sclerosis and neurasthenia.

7. Celery leaves and stems contain volatile substances, which are uniquely fragrant and can enhance people's appetite. Celery juice also has the effect of lowering blood sugar. Eating celery regularly can neutralize uric acid and acidic substances in the body, and has a good effect on preventing gout.

8. Celery contains zinc and is a sexual function food that can promote sexual excitement. It is called "couple food" in the West and was once listed as a forbidden food by ancient Greek monks. A study in Thailand found that eating celery regularly can reduce the number of male sperm and may help with contraception.

Dosage

1. Celery can be stir-fried, mixed, sautéed or used as an ingredient, or as a filling. 2. As the saying goes, "There is no waste in the eyes of a home cook." Many people only eat celery stalks, but in fact, celery leaves have a good blood pressure-lowering effect, are high in nutrients, and taste refreshing. The selected celery leaves can be mixed cold and added as a side dish. Celery leaves contain more vitamin C than stems, and the carotene content is also higher than that of stems, so don't throw away the edible young leaves when eating. We can make soup with celery leaves. Long-term consumption can help people sleep well and make the skin shiny.

3. When selecting celery, pinch the stalk of the celery. The celery that is easy to break is tender celery, and the celery that is not easy to break is old celery.

4. It is used for hypertension, dizziness, headache, red face and eyes, hematuria, carbuncle, etc. You can use 500 grams of fresh celery, mash it to extract juice, and take it with boiled water, 1 dose per day.

5. Applied to bloody stool: Take appropriate amount of water celery, wash and mash it, take half bowl of juice, add appropriate amount of brown sugar and drink.

6. For mumps: take appropriate amount of fresh water celery, mash it to extract the juice, add sour vinegar and drink it, then apply it to the affected area.

Edible effects

1. Calming the liver and lowering blood pressure Celery contains acidic antihypertensive ingredients, which have a significant antihypertensive effect on rabbits and dogs by intravenous injection; vascular perfusion can dilate blood vessels; using the aortic arch perfusion method, it can counteract the pressor response caused by nicotine and theophylline, and can cause blood pressure reduction. Clinically, it is effective for primary, gestational and menopausal hypertension. 2. Calming and tranquilizing Celery is an alkaline component isolated from celery seeds, which has a sedative effect on animals and a stabilizing effect on humans; taking celery sugar or apigenin orally can counteract the excitement of mice caused by cocaine, which is conducive to calming emotions and eliminating irritability.

3. Diuretic and detumescent Celery contains diuretic active ingredients, which can eliminate water and sodium retention in the body, and diuretic and detumescent. In clinical practice, the efficacy of celery decoction is 85.7%, which can treat chyluria.

4. Anti-cancer Celery is a high-fiber food. It produces a substance called lignin or enteric fat through intestinal digestion. This substance is an antioxidant that can inhibit the production of carcinogens by intestinal bacteria at high concentrations. It can also speed up the movement of feces in the intestines, reduce the contact between carcinogens and the colon mucosa, and prevent colon cancer.

5. Nourishing blood and replenishing deficiency. Celery has a high iron content, which can replenish the loss of women's menstrual blood. Eating it can avoid pale, dry skin, and dull complexion, and can make the eyes bright and the hair black and shiny.

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