Does okra really have the effect of tonifying the kidney and strengthening yang?
Pro side:
Legend has it that it has the function of tonifying the kidney and strengthening yang. Back in the day it was nicknamed Golden Armor! The bull whip of the plant world! Great for men to eat!
Someone left a comment online saying: How should I put it, I ate an okra tonight, and then the time for boom boom boom was noticeably longer!
Others say it has the effect of nourishing yin, tonifying the kidney and beautifying the skin for women..... after eating it the skin is especially good
Con side:
A: Okra is so hard to eat.
B: It feels like there's something like snot inside it, I personally don't really like this kind of slimy stuff. There are so many tasty dishes out there, why eat this.
C: Around here we call it sheep pepper, also called horn pepper, and privately I call it snot pepper. You can see this stuff in any random little corner, half a person tall, and after it blooms it desperately grows peppers, as if they cost nothing, it's one of the cheaper vegetables, apart from the flowers being quite pretty, there really isn't anything about it I like, pick up a chopstickful, all gooey and stringy, I'm the kind of person who loves to associate things, and once I start associating I can't eat it.....
D says: I heard it strengthens yang, so I purposely ate half a jin, and that night I had an allergic reaction, dizzy, almost went to the hospital!
What do you think of okra? Tasty? Hard to eat? The Viagra of the plant world? Boom boom boom time increased??? Welcome to leave a comment at the very bottom to discuss!!
Experts say
Okra is on the cool-natured side, and generally people with poor digestion or who get diarrhea easily are not suited to eating okra. It is suitable for people with deficiency and damp-heat constitutions and for people who are relatively overweight, while people with weak and cold spleen and stomach should eat less or not eat it, otherwise they will easily get diarrhea. In addition, because it contains calcium oxalate, people with kidney stones and high uric acid are also not suited to eating okra.
Objectively speaking, okra is a vegetable with relatively high nutritional value, and it does indeed have a certain (a tiny bit, some vegetables all have this effect) effect of aiding digestion and promoting bowel movements, lowering blood sugar, lowering blood lipids, and fighting fatigue.