Taro, also known as taro and taro, is the underground bulb of Araceae. Its shape and meat quality vary from variety to variety, and it is generally eaten with small taro. Perennial tuberous plants, usually cultivated as annual crops. Shield-shaped leaves, petioles long and fat, green or purplish red; Short stems are formed at the base of plants, which gradually accumulate nutrients and become fleshy bulbs, called "taro" or "mother taro", which are spherical, oval, ovoid or blocky.
Taro is rich in protein, calcium, phosphorus, iron, potassium, magnesium, sodium, carotene, nicotinic acid, vitamin C, B vitamins and saponins. Among the minerals, fluorine content is high, which has the functions of cleaning teeth, preventing caries and protecting teeth.
Its rich nutritional value can enhance human immune function and can be used as a common staple food for preventing and treating cancer. It plays an auxiliary role in cancer surgery or postoperative radiotherapy, chemotherapy and its rehabilitation;
Taro contains a mucin, which can be absorbed by the human body to produce immunoglobulin or antibody globulin, which can improve the body's resistance. Therefore, Chinese medicine believes that taro can detoxify, inhibit and digest swelling and toxic pain of human body, including cancer toxin, and can be used to prevent and treat tumors and lymphoid tuberculosis.
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Taro is an alkaline food, which can neutralize acidic substances accumulated in the body, adjust the acid-base balance of human body, produce beauty beauty and blacken hair, and can also be used for preventing and treating hyperacidity.
Taro is rich in mucosaponin and various trace elements, which can help the human body to correct the physiological abnormalities caused by the lack of trace elements, stimulate appetite and help digestion at the same time, so Chinese medicine believes that taro can tonify the middle energizer and replenish qi.
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Baidu encyclopedia-taro