Characteristics of mustard essential oil and the benefits, effects and contraindications of mustard

What form, appearance or scent does mustard essential oil have: Mustard essential oil is extracted from the mustard plant. It has the smell of mustard oil, with a strong pungent mustard taste and a slight bitterness. Its color is yellow.

Benefits, effects and contraindications of mustard

Shepherd's purse (Capsella bursa-pastoris) was first recorded as a medicinal plant in Tao Hongjing's "Record of Famous Doctors", which states that it can "benefit the liver and harmonize the middle", and the "Compendium of Materia Medica" states that it can "improve eyesight and benefit the stomach". Traditional Chinese medicine holds that shepherd's purse is neutral in nature and sweet in taste, with effects of harmonizing the spleen, promoting diuresis, stopping bleeding, improving eyesight and lowering blood pressure, and it can be used to treat dysentery, edema, gonorrhea, chyluria, vomiting of blood, blood in the stool, metrorrhagia, excessive menstruation, red and swollen painful eyes, and so on.

Shepherd's purse has high medicinal value; its roots, flowers and seeds can all be used as medicine. The whole plant used as medicine has effects such as improving eyesight, cooling, reducing fever, promoting diuresis and treating dysentery. The flowers and seeds can stop bleeding and treat blood in the urine, nephritis, high blood pressure, coughing up blood, dysentery, measles, dizziness and eye pain, and other conditions. In addition, eating shepherd's purse in moderation can enhance sleep quality, has a certain inhibitory effect on mental excitement, and can stabilize mood; moreover, shepherd's purse also has a certain diuretic effect and a certain fever-reducing effect, and so on.

Contraindications of mustard

1. Shepherd's purse can relax the intestines and promote bowel movements, so people with loose stools should eat it with caution.

2. People with a weak and cold constitution should not eat shepherd's purse.

3. It is suggested not to add garlic, ginger or cooking wine when preparing shepherd's purse, so as not to destroy its own aroma.

4. Some sensitive people, for example those who are allergic to Chinese chives, should also be more careful when eating shepherd's purse, because shepherd's purse, like Chinese chives, is what is traditionally called a "stimulating food"; after eating it, uncomfortable reactions such as skin heat, itching and raised welts may appear. People who have inflammation in the body or who have wounds in a healing state should also eat less of it.