Specialist 2 Huynh Tan Vu, Lecturer at the University of Medicine and Pharmacy in Ho Chi Minh City, said that in our country, spinach is a very popular vegetable. This is a creeping herb with a thick, slimy, viscous stem. Spinach is not only a delicious vegetable, it is a useful remedy with many uses.
Fresh leaves of spinach contain many vitamins (mainly vitamins A and B), the plant contains protein, calcium, iron, vitamins, mucus. The pectin mucus of the spinach helps to prevent and treat many diseases, fight obesity, and has the effect of absorbing cholesterol.
According to the concept of Eastern medicine, spinach is sweet, sour, cold, has the effect of clearing heat, constipation, and detoxification. This plant is often used to treat constipation, difficult urination, bloody diarrhea, skin rashes, boils.
Therefore, following the Tet holiday with endless parties, the use of spinach is very good for health. Doctor Vu said that the simplest way you can use this vegetable is to cook daily soup such as clam soup, crab soup, fried spinach with garlic, boiled. Besides, Doctor Vu advises some remedies with this vegetable:
Treat constipation: 500g spinach, add salt sauce, soy sauce, vinegar, cook into a soup dish in the meal. Spinach can also replace laxatives. This vegetable promotes digestion by adding mucus and soluble fiber, making it easier for people with constipation to defecate.