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Can onions, carrots and celery be boiled to lose weight?
Yes, you can.

1. The effect of celery on calming the liver and lowering blood pressure is mainly due to the acidic antihypertensive components contained in celery. Animal experiments have proved that intravenous injection of celery has obvious antihypertensive effect on rabbits and dogs. Clinically, it is effective for essential hypertension, pregnancy hypertension and climacteric hypertension.

2. An alkaline component separated from celery seed has sedative effect on animals and human body, which is helpful to calm mood and eliminate irritability.

3. Celery contains diuretic active ingredients, which can eliminate sodium retention in the body and promote diuresis and detumescence. Celery soup can treat chyluria clinically.

Celery is a kind of high-fiber food, which has the function of preventing cancer. It produces lignin or intestinal fat through intestinal digestion. Lignin or intestinal fat 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. Celery has a high iron content, which can supplement the loss of menstrual blood in women. It is a good vegetable for patients with iron deficiency anemia. Eating it can avoid pale, dry and dull skin, and also make eyes bright and hair black.

6. Celery is the first choice for adjuvant treatment of hypertension and its complications. Adjuvant treatment is also available for patients with arteriosclerosis and neurasthenia.

7. The leaves and stems of celery contain volatile substances, which are fragrant and can enhance people's appetite. Celery juice also has hypoglycemic effect. Eating celery regularly can neutralize uric acid and acidic substances in the body, which has a good effect on preventing gout.