1, calming the liver and lowering blood pressure: celery contains acidic antihypertensive components, and intravenous injection has obvious antihypertensive effect on rabbits and dogs. Clinically, it is effective for essential hypertension, pregnancy hypertension and climacteric hypertension.
2. Sedate and soothe the nerves: an alkaline component separated from celery seeds can stabilize the human body, help calm the mood and eliminate irritability;
3, diuretic swelling: celery contains diuretic active ingredients, eliminating sodium retention in the body, diuretic swelling. Celery soup can treat chyluria clinically.
4. Anti-cancer and anti-cancer: Celery is a high-fiber food, which produces lignin or intestinal fat through intestinal digestion. This kind of substance is an antioxidant, which can inhibit carcinogens produced by intestinal bacteria at high concentration. It can also speed up the running time of feces in the intestine, reduce the contact between carcinogens and colon mucosa, and achieve the purpose of preventing colon cancer;
5, nourishing blood and tonifying deficiency: celery has high iron content, which can supplement the loss of menstrual blood in women. Eating it can avoid pale, dry and dull skin, and also make eyes bright and hair black.
6. Nutritional components: Every 100g of fresh vegetables contains 3g of carbohydrate, 2.2g of protein, 0.3g of fat, VA240 international unit, VB 10.03mg, VB20.03mg, VC 10mg, calcium 170mg and phosphorus 30. Petiole is mainly eaten in most parts of China. In fact, the nutrient content of leaves is much higher than that of petioles.
7. Celery is cool and sweet. It contains aromatic oil, VP, vitamins, free amino acids and other substances, and has the effects of appetizing, lowering blood pressure, strengthening brain, clearing bowel, relaxing bowels, detoxicating, reducing swelling and promoting blood circulation. The experiment shows that celery has obvious antihypertensive effect, and the duration of the effect is prolonged with the increase of food intake. It also has sedative and anticonvulsant effects.
8. A celery contains only 7 calories, but when eating celery, the body consumes more than 7 calories.