This commonly eaten vegetable is actually a good medicine for toothache, chilblains, and constipation

You may remember that when taking photos, in order to keep everyone smiling nicely, the photographer asks everyone to say two words, and the most commonly used ones are "eggplant". Because when people say "eggplant", the mouth shape they make looks like they are smiling, and the mouth is also in a smiling position, so the expression also looks more natural.

But eggplant is not only widely used when taking photos. More importantly, eggplant has already become part of our lives. When shopping for groceries in the supermarket, there is almost always eggplant. When ordering food in a restaurant, quite a few menus also include eggplant dishes. In other words, eggplant, as a vegetable, has already become an everyday dish for ordinary people.

But eggplant is not only a vegetable, it is also a whole-body treasure of a healing medicine. For example, the "Diannan Bencao" records that eggplant "disperses blood, stops breast pain, reduces swelling and relaxes the intestines; burnt to ash and taken with rice water, it treats incessant bloody stool from intestinal wind and bleeding hemorrhoids." Another example is the "Suixiju Yinshi Pu", which records that eggplant "invigorates the blood, stops pain, reduces abscesses, kills parasites, and treats malaria and various diseases such as abdominal masses and hernia."

In fact, regarding eggplant's use in treating illness, what left the deepest impression on me is using the stems, leaves, or roots of eggplant, decocted into a liquid for fumigation and washing, to treat chilblains. In fact, this vegetable eggplant is a treasure in every part. For example, the flowers of eggplant are a good medicine for treating "toothache" and "excessive vaginal discharge in women". Autumn eggplant flowers burned until charred and ground into powder, then applied to the affected area, can treat toothache. Using 15 grams of eggplant flowers and 30 grams of Tufuling (Smilax glabra), decocted in water, can treat excessive vaginal discharge in women.

Some people also throw away the eggplant calyx when eating eggplant, but in fact this eggplant calyx is also a good medicine! Ordinarily, you can collect some eggplant calyxes, dry them in the sun, then put them in a pot and bake them until brownish yellow, grind them into a fine powder, and each time use 10 grams of eggplant calyx, brew it with boiling water and drink it as tea, which can relieve various symptoms caused by excess internal heat, such as bleeding gums, nosebleeds, red and swollen throat, excessive eye discharge, and yellow urine.

For people with hemorrhoids, eggplant is also a relatively good food therapy. First, you can take 1 to 2 eggplants, wash them clean, put them in a dish, steam them thoroughly over water, take them out after cooking, add an appropriate amount of salt, and then eat them. Second, use 200 grams of eggplant, 100 grams of minced meat, and 100 grams of japonica rice to cook porridge and eat it, which has a certain effect for patients with constipation and bleeding hemorrhoids.

Eggplant is so good, but not everyone can eat it. For example, patients with deficiency-cold of the spleen and stomach, weak constitution, loose stools, or asthma should not eat eggplant; in addition, it is also not advisable to eat eggplant before surgery.

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