There is a vegetable hailed as the "blood clot and plaque cleaner"

Doctors often say: "A person's lifespan matches the lifespan of their arteries." If the body's arteries become blocked and hardened, death is not far off.

Whether the blood vessels are healthy concerns the length of a person's life. Among home-cooked vegetables there is one hailed as the "blood clot and plaque cleaner," and that is cabbage.

Cabbage is also called round cabbage; generally speaking, most people may be more familiar with the name round cabbage. Round cabbage is highly regarded for its many medicinal benefits, and the Greeks and Romans considered it a universal remedy.

Round cabbage is rich in vitamin C, dietary fiber and carotene. It can lower cholesterol and blood lipids and prevent atherosclerosis. It is an auxiliary therapeutic dish for patients with arteriosclerosis and for obese people. Therefore, round cabbage is the garbage collector of the blood.

　　Dietary contraindications

The general population can eat it.

It is especially suitable for patients with arteriosclerosis, gallstones, obese patients, pregnant women, and those with digestive tract ulcers.

However, patients with itchy skin diseases or eye congestion should avoid eating it;

Round cabbage contains a large amount of coarse fiber and is hard in texture, so those with deficient cold of the spleen and stomach, diarrhea, and children with a weak spleen should not eat much of it;

It should not be eaten after abdominal and thoracic surgery, when gastrointestinal ulcers and their bleeding are especially severe, or during diarrhea and liver disease.

Round cabbage has a blood-nourishing effect, so people with thick, sticky blood should not eat it.

　　Recipes suitable for patients with arteriosclerosisMainly include:

Stir-fried round cabbage with tomato

Ingredients:

An appropriate amount of round cabbage, tomato and chopped scallion;

Effects: Sour and sweet, it whets the appetite and boosts qi and body fluids. It is suitable for conditions such as physical fatigue, restlessness and thirst, and poor appetite. For healthy people who eat it, it can prevent and resist disease and strengthen the body.

Cold dressed round cabbage

Ingredients:

An appropriate amount of round cabbage, onion, red pepper, garlic, ginger and vinegar;

Eating round cabbage raw is more nutritious than eating it cooked, because the cooking process causes a large loss of its nutrients, while eating it raw retains more of the nutritional components of round cabbage. It is recommended that elderly people often eat some round cabbage, which is of great help in preventing cardiovascular and cerebrovascular diseases in the elderly.

The above are recipes suitable for patients with arteriosclerosis. It is hoped that through the introduction above, it can be of some help to the many patients with arteriosclerosis and their families. While preparing the patient's diet well, the treatment of arteriosclerosis also requires special care, so that the patient's life is not endangered by a lack of effective treatment.Traditional Chinese medicine "Plaque-Dissolving, Turbidity-Lowering, Vessel-Unblocking Decoction"Treatment is a commonly used therapeutic method for patients with arteriosclerosis, and traditional Chinese medicine is not only for the treatment of advanced arteriosclerosis. The earlier traditional Chinese medicine is included in treatment, the more effectively it can raise patients' 5-year survival rate and reduce the probability.

Our hospital's "Plaque-Dissolving, Turbidity-Lowering, Vessel-Unblocking Decoction" focuses on treating arterial plaques and arterial stenosis