Wednesday, December 25, 2024

What is the healthiest food we can eat?

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🍀Celery, a plant of the Umbelliferae family, is rich in protein, carbohydrates, carotene, B vitamins, calcium, phosphorus, iron, sodium, etc. At the same time, it has the effects of calming the liver and clearing away heat, dispelling wind and dampness, eliminating restlessness and swelling, cooling blood and stopping bleeding, detoxifying and clearing the lungs, strengthening the stomach and promoting blood circulation, clearing the intestines and facilitating bowel movements, moistening the lungs and relieving coughs, lowering blood pressure, and strengthening the brain and calming the nerves.

✅Nutritional value of celery

1️⃣ Clearing away heat and detoxifying

Eating celery regularly can help clear away heat and detoxify, remove diseases and strengthen the body. People with excessive liver fire, rough skin, frequent insomnia and headaches can eat more appropriately

2️⃣ Diuretic and detumescent

Celery contains diuretic active ingredients, which eliminate water and sodium retention in the body and can be used for chyluria

3️⃣ Sobering up and protecting the stomach

Celery is a high-fiber food that can speed up the digestion and elimination of the stomach. Then, through the diuretic function of celery, the alcohol in the stomach is excreted from the body through urine, thereby relieving the pressure of the stomach and achieving the effect of sobering up and protecting the stomach

4️⃣ Calming the liver and lowering blood pressure

Celery contains acidic antihypertensive ingredients, which can counteract the pressor response caused by nicotine and theophylline, and can cause blood pressure reduction. It is effective for primary, gestational and menopausal hypertension

5️⃣ Nourishing blood and beautifying

Celery has a high iron content, which can replenish the loss of menstrual blood in women. Eating it can prevent pale, dry and dull skin, and can make the eyes bright and the hair black and shiny

❌Contraindications for eating celery

🚫Allergic constitution

Celery is a photosensitive vegetable. Eating too much can easily cause an increase in photosensitive substances in the body. Therefore, people with allergic constitutions should not eat celery and try to avoid eating it

🚫People with weak spleen and stomach should eat it in moderation

Since celery is cold in nature, eating too much may increase the burden on the stomach and cause abdominal pain Symptoms such as diarrhea or loose stools, so people with weak spleen and stomach should eat in moderation

🚫People with low blood pressure

Celery usually contains apigenin, which has a certain effect of lowering blood pressure. Excessive consumption by people with low blood pressure may make blood pressure even lower, and may cause adverse symptoms such as fainting, dizziness, fatigue, pale complexion, etc.

🚫Special diseases

Some special diseases cannot eat celery. Celery is a photosensitive food. If it is exposed to sunlight outdoors after eating, it may aggravate symptoms such as erythema, which is not conducive to the recovery of the disease. Therefore, patients with lupus erythematosus are not recommended to eat celery

 

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