The benefits of eating watercress

Watercress is a green vegetable, also called watercress or watercress. It is one of the common vegetables in southern China. It is rich in nutrients and has certain medicinal effects. Regular consumption can supplement nutrition and prevent diseases. So what are the effects and functions of watercress?

The efficacy and function of watercress

1. The efficacy of watercress

Watercress tastes sweet and slightly bitter, and is cold in nature. It can enter the Qi meridian and bladder meridian. Its main effects are clearing dryness and moistening the lungs, resolving phlegm and relieving cough, and acting as a diuretic. It can be used to prevent and treat various adverse symptoms such as dry lungs, coughs, and body edema. The effect is very obvious. In addition, watercress can clear away heat and detoxify. Regular consumption can prevent the occurrence of various symptoms of getting angry.

2. Watercress can cure dry mouth and sore throat

Watercress can clear away heat and detoxify, and can also clear the throat. It has a good therapeutic effect on dry mouth and sore throat. In normal treatment, you can cook 500 grams of watercress and 200 grams of pork ribs together to make soup. When cooking, you can cut the ribs into sections and blanch them in boiling water, then put them into the pot and add clean water to cook. When the ribs are almost cooked, put the watercress in and cook them.

3. Watercress can cure lung heat and cough

Watercress also has a good therapeutic effect on human lung heat and cough. It can clear lung heat and relieve cough. You can usually cook 500 grams of watercress with 300 grams of pig lungs and 15 grams of southern almonds. When cooking, you should clean the pig lungs in advance, cut them into shreds, blanch them with boiling water to remove the blood, and then put them into the pot with watercress and southern almonds to make soup, and then take it out and take it.