A fruit grown in almost every rural household, 90% of people don't know it can fight cancer

Jicama belongs to the Fabaceae family and is a cultivated variety of the genus Pachyrhizus that forms tuberous roots. It is an annual or perennial twining herbaceous vine. The tuberous root of jicama is plump, with white, crisp, tender and juicy flesh, rich in sugar and protein, and also contains abundant vitamin C. It can be eaten raw or cooked.

Traditional Chinese medicine also has records of jicama. "Sichuan Traditional Chinese Medicine Records" states: "Its nature is slightly cool, its taste is sweet, and it is non-toxic." It has the effects of clearing the lungs and promoting fluid production, promoting urination and lactation, and relieving alcohol toxicity. "Edible Traditional Chinese Medicine and Simple Recipes" introduces: "It promotes fluid production and quenches thirst, relieves alcohol toxicity, and lowers blood pressure." It has good therapeutic effects on diseases such as lung-heat cough, pulmonary abscess, heatstroke with thirst, diabetes, insufficient lactation, and difficult urination.

For symptoms of dizziness due to high blood pressure and dry hard stool, you can peel the jicama, remove the flesh, mash it into juice, and drink the juice directly; for drunkenness or chronic alcoholism, you can peel fresh jicama, slice it, and eat it raw with white sugar; for heatstroke, vexing heat, lung-heat cough, and coughing thick phlegm, you can eat jicama raw directly, and its effect of clearing the lungs and purging heat is very good.

The tuberous root of jicama stores well and can help regulate a balanced year-round supply of vegetables. The seeds, stems and leaves contain rotenone, which is toxic to humans and livestock and cannot be eaten. It can be made into dichlorvos, insecticides, and other poisons. If used to make soup, it is not only refreshing and sweet in taste, but can also relieve summer heat and reduce internal heat.

Jicama antitumor protein

A new jicama antitumor protein was purified and isolated from jicama seeds through a specific method. The jicama antitumor protein has activity in inhibiting liver cancer, stomach cancer and melanoma.

However, although jicama is delicious, not everyone can eat it. Because jicama is cool in nature, people with a cold constitution, spleen-stomach deficiency cold, and diabetes patients are not suitable to eat it, and it is also not suitable for those with cold-type dysmenorrhea and women during menstruation.