Can eggplant be eaten raw? The therapeutic effects of eating raw eggplant

We all know that eggplant can be fried, boiled, or steamed, but can it be eaten raw?

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The therapeutic effects of eating raw eggplant

Eggplant is rich in vitamins, protein and calcium, which can soften blood vessels. Eating more eggplant can help reduce age spots. Eggplant has a blood stasis effect and can reduce the occurrence of cerebral thrombosis. Eggplant can also help lose weight.

Eating eggplant raw can retain more vitamin D and protect blood vessels. Chinese medicine believes that eggplant is cold in nature and has the effects of dispersing blood stasis, reducing swelling and relieving pain, treating cold and heat, dispelling wind and unblocking meridians, and stopping bleeding. The main ingredients of eggplant are: trigonelline, stachydrine, choline, protein, calcium, phosphorus, iron, VA, VB, VC, especially the sugar content is twice as high as that of tomatoes, and eggplant fiber also contains a certain amount of saponin, and purple eggplant contains rich VPP. Eating eggplant raw can prevent the increase of blood cholesterol content, because it is not easy to suffer from jaundice, liver enlargement, arteriosclerosis and other diseases.

In recent years, domestic and foreign studies have found that eggplant contains special beneficial ingredients that can prevent and treat some common diseases.

Diseases prevented:

1. Hemorrhagic diseases: Purple eggplant is rich in vitamin P, which can improve the fragility of blood vessels and prevent small blood vessel bleeding. It has a certain preventive and therapeutic effect on patients with hypertension, arteriosclerosis, hemoptysis, purpura and scurvy.

2. Lower cholesterol: Saponin contained in eggplant fiber has the effect of lowering cholesterol. Brazilian scientists conducted an experiment on obese rabbits and found that the total cholesterol content of rabbits that consumed eggplant juice was 10% lower than that of the control group.

3. Cancer prevention: Eggplant contains nightshade, which can inhibit the proliferation of digestive tract tumor cells, especially gastric cancer and rectal cancer. When some cancer patients receiving chemotherapy have fever, they can eat eggplant cooked and served cold, which has the effect of reducing fever. Eggplant can also be used as an auxiliary treatment food for the above two cancers.

4. Internal hemorrhoids and blood in the stool: Eggplant has the effect of clearing away heat, activating blood circulation, reducing swelling and relieving pain. Use 1-2 fresh eggplants every day, wash and put them in a bowl, add a little oil and salt, put them in a pot and steam them. Eating them for several days can treat internal hemorrhoids and blood in the stool, and it also has a certain effect on constipation.

In addition, eating eggplant regularly also has a certain therapeutic effect on pain, chronic gastritis and nephritis edema.

As blood vessels of the elderly gradually age and harden, "age spots" will appear on their skin. The spots will grow from small to large and connect to each other with age. This small subcutaneous hemorrhage is often a precursor to a stroke. Eating more eggplants can significantly reduce age spots.