Eating carrots helps to treat gout
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Last Update: 2010-09-20
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Source: Internet
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Author: User
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There are proverbs in traditional Chinese medicine such as "fish makes fire, meat makes phlegm, cabbage and radish keep peace" Radish seed is commonly used in resolving phlegm In compendium of Materia Medica, Li Shizhen also mentioned that radish can "greatly reduce Qi, eliminate grain, and eliminate pathogenic heat" Generally, people with long illness are easy to produce phlegm (the phlegm mentioned in traditional Chinese medicine is the pathological product of body fluid running abnormally, which can be spread all over the body), especially when gout occurs repeatedly, local redness, swelling, heat and pain often become phlegm due to stasis, so eating some carrots properly in the acute period will help relieve symptoms, shorten the course of disease, and in the remission period, it will help dispel phlegm and dredge collaterals At the same time, modern research thinks that carrot is a kind of basic vegetable without purine, which can reduce blood lipid, cholesterol and stabilize blood pressure, but pay attention not to use it to cook soup, or add tofu and meat to cook together.
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