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What are the benefits of cactus?
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Medicinal value: the whole plant is used as a medicine (except for thorns).
It can be harvested in all seasons. Use fresh or slice to dry.
Indications: Clearing heat and detoxifying, relaxing tendons and activating the nerves, dispersing stasis and reducing swelling, detoxifying the intestines, cooling blood and relieving pain, moistening the intestines and stopping bleeding, strengthening the stomach and relieving pain, and suppressing cough.
It is used for gastric and duodenal ulcers, hemorrhoids, acute dysentery, cough; External use for the treatment of mumps, mastitis, carbuncles, swelling and poison, hemorrhoids, snake bites, burns.
Precautions: The thorn contains poisonous juice, and after the human body is stabbed, it is easy to cause allergic symptoms such as redness, swelling, pain, itching, etc.
Edible value: cactus fried lily.
Cactus has always been a traditional food in the Americas, is an indispensable part of people's daily life of a special vegetable and fruit, the cactus is washed and chopped and boiled in soup, or roasted on the stove, or made into a pie filling, or directly cong envy the fresh cactus pickled, and some use cactus to make wine.
In the Mexican market, the young stems of some flaky cacti are available as vegetables**.
It is said that there are 101 ways to cook cacti in Mexico: steaming, frying, stir-frying, submerging, barging, or serving as a salad.
Among them, spicy fried cactus, egg fried cactus, and cactus salad are the most famous.
People eat cactus to eat the part of its tender stem, using cactus leaves to make vegetables, usually after thorning and peeling, boiled, sliced, oiled, put in seasoning to become a cold dish; If it is stir-fried, it does not need to be boiled, and it is directly cut and cooked.
Cactus for vegetables has the effect of lowering blood sugar, blood lipids and blood pressure.
Eating a piece of vegetable cactus every day can eliminate excess cholesterol, fat and sugar in the body, thereby inhibiting arteriosclerosis and obesity, and playing a role in promoting qi and blood, clearing heat and detoxifying and promoting metabolism.
Eating cactus often can avoid the accumulation of excessive glucose in the human body and has a certain hypoglycemic effect.
Especially for patients with non-insulin-dependent diabetes, after fasting for a few hours, eating roasted cactus stems can effectively lower blood sugar, improve the body's efficiency in using insulin, and promote glucose from the blood into human cells, and convert into fatty energy.
Because cactus contains more nutrients and is a low-fat, low-sugar food, it is very beneficial to human health and is an ideal food for controlling diabetes.
Mibangta edible cactus is not only nutritious, but also has high medicinal value, can be processed into a variety of health products, edible cactus can be eaten in many ways to use frying, stir-frying, frying, boiling, cold dressing and other cooking methods.
Environmental Purification: Known as the nocturnal "oxygen bar" cactus.
Cactus breathing is mostly done at night when it is cooler and wetter.
When you breathe, you inhale carbon dioxide and release oxygen.
Therefore, placing it in the room is tantamount to adding an air freshener, which can purify the indoor air.
Therefore, it is also an ideal flower for arranging indoor flowers at night.
At the same time, it is also a master of absorbing dust, and placing a cactus indoors, especially a hydroponic cactus (because hydroponic cacti are cleaner and more environmentally friendly), can play a role in purifying the environment.
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1. Hypoglycemia: As early as the beginning of the 20th century, it was discovered that cactus extract has obvious hypoglycemic effect. Especially for patients with type 2 diabetes, it can effectively reduce blood sugar concentration.
2. Delay aging: In addition to containing all the amino acids necessary for the body, cactus also contains high trace elements such as ZN, MN, SR, CR, CU, and CO. They are essential active factors for enzymes and vitamins because they participate in nucleic acid metabolism, thereby affecting the growth and development and lifespan of the body.
Secondly, cacti contain high vitamin E and polysaccharides, which have antioxidant capacity and delay aging.
3. Lowering blood lipids: The vitamins contained in cactus can inhibit the absorption of fat and cholesterol and play a role in reducing blood lipids.
4. Anti-inflammatory effect: Cactus can relieve inflammation, pain, itching and other conditions, because of the extraction of aromatic amines and sugars from cactus. In addition, cactus extract has an inhibitory effect on Staphylococcus aureus and Escherichia coli.
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What is the role and efficacy of cactus?
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It can be placed next to the computer to prevent radiation.
"Cactus" is often seen, but have you ever eaten its fruit? How about the taste.
Your cactus is not kept in the sun all the time, it is not always in the sun, if it is always in the sun, it will only be green and will not appear whitish. You put it in the shade to maintain, and the whitish can be removed.
"Cactus" is often seen, but have you ever eaten its fruit? How about the taste.
It can be applied externally, wrapped in a cloth after mashing, and pasted on the cheeks.
"Cactus" is often seen, but have you ever eaten its fruit? How about the taste.