Nutritional value and efficacy of shepherd's purse Medicinal value of shepherd's purse

Every spring, people like to go to the wild to dig some wild vegetables to eat, and shepherd's purse is one of the most popular wild vegetables. It grows mostly on the roadside and in the fields and is easy for people to harvest. Shepherd's purse has high nutritional value and good health benefits. If you don't know about it, you can take a look at the detailed introduction I made to shepherd's purse below.

Nutritional value and efficacy of shepherd's purse

1. Shepherd’s purse is high in carotene

Shepherd's purse contains many nutrients that are beneficial to the human body, among which the content of carotene is very high. This substance can be converted into vitamin A after entering the human body, which can directly act on the human eyes. It has a good preventive effect on human dry eye disease and night blindness.

2. Shepherd’s purse can stop bleeding

Shepherd's purse contains a large amount of natural shepherd's purse acid, which is a hemostatic ingredient. It can inhibit bleeding in human blood vessels, regulate coagulation time, and have a certain reducing effect on the permeability of human blood vessels. Therefore, people can avoid the occurrence of capillary bleeding symptoms after eating shepherd's purse.

3. Shepherd’s purse can lower blood pressure

Shepherd's purse contains a variety of ingredients that can lower blood pressure, such as acetylcholine, sitosterol and some amine compounds, which can remove cholesterol and triglycerides from the blood, speed up blood flow, and lower high blood pressure. Shepherd's purse, a wild vegetable, also contains some natural dithiolthione, which can improve the antiviral ability of cells and reduce the formation of cancer cells. Therefore, eating shepherd's purse on a regular basis can play a good role in preventing and fighting cancer.