5 diuresis and detumescence
Lettuce helps to dredge meridians, soothe the nerves and smooth qi, strengthen bones and muscles, promote milk secretion, diuresis, improve body edema and help water to reduce swelling.
6 promote digestion
Lettuce leaves are slightly bitter, which can stimulate digestion, increase appetite and improve the function of digestive system. In addition, lettuce is rich in dietary fiber, which can effectively promote gastrointestinal peristalsis and promote food digestion and absorption.
Seven Nutrients of Lettuce
Lettuce contains more dietary fiber and vitamin C than cabbage, and its stems and leaves contain lettuce, so it tastes bitter, and has the functions of analgesia and hypnosis, lowering cholesterol and adjuvant treatment of neurasthenia. Lettuce contains mannitol and other effective components, which have diuretic and blood circulation promoting effects; The "interferon inducer" contained in lettuce can stimulate normal cells of human body to produce interferon and antiviral protein.
Different ways of eating lettuce have different nutritional values.
Sautéed Lettuce
It has the functions of relieving pain and hypnosis, lowering cholesterol, adjuvant treatment of neurasthenia, diuresis, promoting blood circulation, antivirus, clearing stomach and losing weight.
Garlic lettuce
Garlic lettuce not only has the effect of frying lettuce, but also has the functions of sterilization, anti-inflammation and lowering blood sugar. Lettuce is rich in vitamins, which can prevent gum bleeding and vitamin C deficiency. Garlic has the functions of detoxicating, resolving food stagnation and invigorating stomach, and has certain therapeutic effects on epigastric pain, dysentery, abdominal distension and diarrhea, whooping cough, cold and malaria.
Fried lettuce in oyster sauce
Oyster sauce is actually not an oil, but the soup left over from the processing of oyster sauce, which is what we often call oysters. This soup is oyster sauce after filtration and concentration. Friends are a kind of seasoning, rich in nutrition and delicious. Therefore, lettuce in oyster sauce can not only reduce blood fat, blood pressure and blood sugar, but also promote diuresis, promote blood circulation, resist virus, and prevent and treat heart disease and liver disease.
Tofu lettuce
Lettuce eaten with nutritious tofu has become a dish with high protein, low fat and cholesterol and multiple vitamins, which has the functions of clearing liver-fire, benefiting gallbladder, nourishing yin and tonifying kidney, whitening skin, losing weight and keeping fit. It has a certain dietotherapy effect on red eyes, swelling and pain, cough due to lung heat, thirst quenching, spleen deficiency and abdominal distension.
Mushroom lettuce
Mushrooms are rich in protein, which is easily absorbed by human body. It has the functions of invigorating spleen and qi, moistening dryness and resolving phlegm, and has strong nourishing effect. Eating with lettuce has a certain dietotherapy effect on hot cough, excessive phlegm, chest tightness, vomiting and diarrhea.