1, lowering blood pressure. Eggplant is rich in vitamin P, which is a flavonoid, which can soften blood vessels and lower blood pressure.
2, lower cholesterol. Eggplant contains fenugreek and choline, which can combine with excessive cholesterol in the small intestine and be excreted to maintain normal blood circulation and reduce cholesterol.
3. lose weight. Eggplant can also absorb fat and play a role in losing weight.
4, clearing heat and relieving summer heat. Eating eggplant in summer can clear away heat and relieve summer heat, especially suitable for people who are prone to prickly heat and sores in summer.
Sexual taste: sweet; Cool.
Meridian tropism: entering spleen, stomach and large intestine meridian.
Indications: clearing away heat, promoting blood circulation, relieving pain and reducing swelling. Treat intestinal wind and blood, heat toxic sores, carbuncle and sores.
(1) Meng Wei: the main cold and heat, five Tibetan labor. Rub it with vinegar and apply swelling poison.
(2) Cui Yuxi's "Food Classics": nourishing the skin, benefiting qi and beriberi.
3 "Rihuazi Materia Medica": Treating febrile diseases, clearing the body and discouraging.
④ Southern Yunnan herbs: dispersing blood, stopping breast pain, reducing swelling, widening intestine, burning grey rice soup and treating intestinal wind and blood hemorrhoids.
⑤ outline of medical forest: forgive the middle, disperse blood and quench thirst.
⑥ Life taste diet spectrum: promoting blood circulation, relieving pain, eliminating carbuncle, killing insects, malaria and hernia.
Usage and dosage: tamping or grinding and dressing. Oral: Take pills, powder or soak in wine.
Disadvantaged people:
1. Because eggplant is a cool vegetable, pregnant women with dyspepsia, diarrhea, spleen and stomach deficiency and loose stool symptoms should not eat more.
2, pregnant women friends should also choose fresh eggplant when choosing eggplant. It is best not to choose old eggplant, especially after autumn, which contains more solanine, which is harmful to human body and should not be eaten more.
3, eggplant contains extremely low calories, and the elderly and obese people may wish to eat it often. Eggplant is cold, people who are prone to prickly heat and sores can eat more, but people with spleen and stomach deficiency and asthma should not eat more.
4. Eggplant after autumn has certain toxin and bitter taste. It is best to eat less, especially for diabetics, and try not to eat eggplant before surgery.