Clearing away heat and toxic materials, removing blood stasis and swelling, invigorating stomach and relieving pain, and relieving cough. Used for gastric and duodenal ulcer, acute dysentery and cough; Externally used for treating parotitis, mastitis, carbuncle and furuncle, snake bite, burn and scald. Traditional Chinese medicine believes that cactus has the functions of promoting qi and blood circulation, clearing away heat and toxic materials, and is mainly used to treat heartburn, lump, dysentery, hemorrhoids, cough, sore throat, lung abscess, breast abscess, furuncle, fire injury in soup, snake injury and so on. Edible cactus is one of the vegetables with the highest content of vitamin B2 and soluble fiber. Edible cactus contains 8 kinds of amino acids and various trace elements necessary for human body, which not only has many effects on human body, such as clearing away heat and toxic materials, invigorating stomach and spleen, clearing away throat and moistening lung, and beauty beauty, but also has obvious therapeutic effects on liver cancer, diabetes and bronchitis. Cactus is high in potassium, low in sodium and low in sugar, and its sugar content is lower than lettuce and cucumber.

Excerpt from: health-common sense of human body.