We all know that the accumulation of toxins can cause great harm to our bodies, and in order to eliminate these toxins, we need to rely not only on our body's natural detoxification function, but also on our external efforts, such as consuming detoxifying foods and using detoxifying traditional Chinese medicine. Let's take a look at some common detoxifying foods in our daily lives.
[Detoxifying Foods in Daily Life]
1. Mung Beans
Mung beans have a sweet and cold nature. They can accelerate the metabolism and conversion of toxic substances in the body and help people eliminate toxins in a timely manner.
Mung beans have a certain relieving effect on poisoning caused by toxic plants, metals, and arsenic, and can prevent and treat pesticide poisoning, various food poisoning, and heavy metal poisoning.
2. Kelp
Kelp has a salty and cold taste. It not only has the effects of reducing fat and lowering blood pressure, softening hard masses, and clearing heat and diuresis, but also helps to excrete cadmium from the body.
3. Figs
Figs can to a certain extent resist toxic substances such as benzene, hydrogen chloride, sulfur trioxide, and sulfur dioxide. The enzymes and organic acids contained in the fruit can also protect the liver, detoxify, aid digestion, and clear heat and moisten the intestines.
4. Pig's Blood
Pig's blood can remove intestinal impurities and promote bowel movements. Plasma proteins in pig's blood can be decomposed by gastric acid in the human body to produce intestinal detoxification products.
These substances will undergo biochemical reactions with harmful metal particles and dust that invade the human body, and then be excreted in a timely manner through the digestive tract.
[Common Detoxifying Traditional Chinese Medicine]
1. Honeysuckle
Honeysuckle has anti-inflammatory and antipyretic effects. It has inhibitory effects on influenza viruses, various pathogenic bacteria, and pathogenic skin fungi, reflecting its heat-clearing and detoxifying effects.
2. Isatis Root
Isatis root is the root of the cruciferous plants Isatis indigotica and Isatis tinctoria. It contains indigo root glucoside, indirubin, and beta-sitosterol, among others. Isatis root has significant antiviral effects. It has inhibitory effects on various pathogenic bacteria and spirochetes.
3. Dandelion
Dandelion is the whole plant with roots of the Asteraceae plant Taraxacum. It contains dandelion sterols, choline, inulin, and fruit acids, among others. Its decoction has an antimicrobial effect. It also has the functions of protecting the liver, promoting bile secretion, and improving immune function.
4. Cassia Seed
Cassia seed can clear the liver and improve eyesight, promote diuresis and bowel movements, and is suitable for redness, pain, and excessive tearing caused by liver heat or liver wind-heat. In addition, it is also effective in treating hypertension, hepatitis, cirrhotic ascites, and habitual constipation.
[Summer Heat-clearing and Detoxifying Porridge]
1. Mung Bean and Pumpkin Porridge
Take a handful of mung beans and about half a catty of pumpkin. Wash the mung beans and soak them in water overnight. Boil the mung beans the next day, then add the diced pumpkin, and simmer over medium heat until the pumpkin is soft.
Function: Clears heat, generates fluid, prevents heatstroke, and nourishes yin. It can adsorb bacterial toxins and other harmful substances in the body, such as lead and mercury in heavy metals.
2. Chinese Yam and Mung Bean Gruel
Take 400 grams of fresh Chinese yam and 500 grams of mung beans. After washing the mung beans, soak them in water. Boil the mung beans for about 1 hour, then use a juicer to blend the mung bean soup evenly. Wash and dice the Chinese yam, boil it with the mung bean soup, and add sugar to taste.
Function: Mung beans clear heat and detoxify, while Chinese yam supplements the spleen, nourishes the stomach, generates fluid, nourishes the lungs, and supplements the kidneys.
3. Millet and Mung Bean Porridge
Take an appropriate amount of millet, rice, and mung beans. After soaking the mung beans, put them in a pot and boil them with water until boiling, then add the rice grains and simmer over low heat for about 40 minutes until the mung beans are soft and the rice grains bloom. The porridge should be thick and creamy.
Function: Millet nourishes yin and blood, invigorates the spleen, and nourishes the stomach, while mung beans clear heat and detoxify, relieve summer heat, quench thirst, reduce swelling, and lower cholesterol.
