What are the benefits of eating taro?
Taro, also known as taro and cheese, is a common food for both food and vegetables. In ancient China, whenever there was rice shortage and famine, the government often used taro instead of grain to help the victims, because taro was not only adaptable, but also had high yield.
Taro is not only edible, but also used as medicine to treat diseases. Tao Hongjing pointed out that taro is "pungent, flat and poisonous" in "Records of Famous Doctors", and thought it had the effect of "widening the stomach, filling the skin and smoothing the middle". "Herbal Medicine in Southern Yunnan" says that taro is "sweet and hemp". To say that taro is poisonous means that it is slightly poisonous when eaten raw, but not when cooked. "Edible Materia Medica" also said that taro "cures vexation and heat, quenches thirst, makes people fat and white, stimulates appetite and relieves constipation". It can be seen that taro can not only strengthen the spleen and stomach and quench thirst, but also make people's gastrointestinal tract unobstructed and their skin fair.
People with bad stomach should eat more taro, which can strengthen the spleen and promote digestion, promote digestion and absorption, and enhance human nutrition. Because taro enters the spleen and stomach, it can replenish the spleen and enhance the digestive function of the spleen and stomach. Spleen is the transporter of human acquired nutrition and the "acquired foundation" of human beings. First of all, the spleen produces blood and the spleen and stomach are strong, so the human body is full of blood and biochemistry, strong and healthy; Secondly, the spleen governs the ascending, and the stomach governs the descending. If the spleen and stomach are weak, it will lead to the spleen not rising clear, the stomach not descending turbid, people will be dizzy, lose appetite, constipation, and taro can stimulate gastrointestinal peristalsis, increase the amount of stool, make people defecate smoothly and get rid of constipation. Finally, the spleen dominates the meat, and most people with weak spleen and stomach are sallow and emaciated. Eating more taro will enhance the digestion and absorption function and naturally "fat white".
In addition to eating taro, external application can also be beneficial to health. Taro has the function of disinfection and swelling reduction. Shen Kuo recorded such a story in Meng Qian Bi Tan, which told that Liu Tang, a hermit of Wuwangshan, saw a bumblebee stuck in a spider web at home and couldn't get away. At this time, Okumo climbed up and wanted to have a full meal, but he wanted to be stung by a wasp. Its toxic attack made the spider's body swell and dying. Who knows that the spider desperately climbed into the taro field outside the house, bit the stalk of the taro, and then rubbed the bee sting wound on the stalk of the taro. Soon, the swelling disappeared and the spider was "full of energy" again. This is the earliest record that taro can treat bee stings. In fact, not only taro stalks, but also taro itself has the function of disinfection. In the folk, if someone is stung by a bee, the most common way is to apply taro stalks or taro slices to the affected area, with amazing results.