Cabbage: Chinese medicine believes that cabbage is sweet and slightly cold, belonging to the large intestine and stomach meridian. Has the effects of nourishing stomach, promoting fluid production, clearing away heat and toxic materials, relieving vexation, quenching thirst, promoting diuresis and relaxing bowels. It is not only a good vegetable for supplementing nutrition, purifying blood and promoting metabolism, but also can be used as an auxiliary treatment material for constipation, erysipelas and lacquer sore. Therefore, there is a folk proverb in China, "Fish makes a fire, meat produces phlegm, and cabbage and tofu keep you safe". However, it should be noted that people with cold stomach and abdominal pain should eat less Chinese cabbage. In addition, rotten cabbage must not be eaten, because it contains nitrite, which is very easy to cause poisoning.
Spinach: Spinach has many functions, such as nourishing the spleen and stomach, nourishing blood to stop bleeding and helping digestion. It has a good therapeutic effect on constipation, hypertension, diabetes and other diseases.
Lettuce: Chinese medicine believes that lettuce is sweet, bitter and cold, and has the effects of nourishing the stomach, clearing away heat and refreshing, reducing fat and losing weight. Lettuce is washed, torn into pieces by hand, and eaten directly with appropriate amount of salad dressing, which is beneficial for women to keep slim. Lettuce can be eaten by the general population, but people with cold stomach and frequent urination should not eat more.
Water spinach: the scientific name of water spinach is water spinach, which is cold in nature and slightly sweet in taste and can enter the large intestine and stomach. Eating regularly in summer can nourish yin and stomach, invigorate qi and spleen, prevent heatstroke and reduce fever, cool blood and detoxify, clear away heat and diuresis, and prevent dysentery. At the same time, it has a good therapeutic effect on food poisoning, hematemesis, nosebleed, hematuria, carbuncle, furuncle and other diseases.
Green vegetables: Chinese medicine believes that they are cool and sweet, and enter the lungs, stomach and large intestine. Has the effects of dredging gastrointestinal tract, clearing away heat, relieving restlessness, promoting qi circulation, removing blood stasis, and relieving swelling and resolving hard mass. Suitable for body heat, thirst, chest distress, upset, anorexia, constipation, abdominal distension and other symptoms. The best way to cook green vegetables is to stir-fry them raw. Stir-frying vegetables quickly in an emergency can not only keep nutrients from losing, but also prevent vegetables from turning yellow and wilting. But it should be noted that people with cold vegetables, spleen and stomach deficiency and cold, and loose stool should eat less.
In addition, lettuce, leek and coriander are also green leafy vegetables and can be eaten reasonably. Different green leafy vegetables have different dietotherapy and health preserving functions. Therefore, when eating, we should also take a proper amount, and we should not be partial to one or dislike one.