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Only 3,000 VND per day, will help many people reduce common diseases

In the book "Medicinal Herbs and Remedies of Vietnam" by Professor Do Tat Loi, it is mentioned that people in our country often pick young leaves of water spinach to eat raw as a condiment or to use as medicine. Water spinach is used to treat digestive issues such as indigestion, bloating, and gastrointestinal bleeding.

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14 January, 2024

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Depending on the region, it is called by many names such as ngò điếc, ngò om, ngò thơm, ngổ đắng, ngổ trâu, ngổ đất… In science, this vegetable is called Enydra fluctuans Lour. This vegetable belongs to the daisy family and Buffalo spinach is the English name for this vegetable.

In the ngổ vegetable, it contains 93% water, 2.1% protein, 1.2% carbohydrates, 2.1% cellulose, 0.8% ash. In addition, there is 0.72mg% carotene, 0.29mg% vitamin B, 2.11mg% vitamin C, and a little fragrant essential oil.

Ngổ vegetable

The ngổ vegetable is a spice used as a herb in Vietnamese family meals. But you may not know that this is also a medicinal plant that can treat many common diseases.

Ngổ vegetable treats kidney stones

According to Doctor Hoang Duy Tan, ngổ vegetable has a diuretic effect, reduces smooth muscle spasms, dilates blood vessels, increases filtration in the kidneys; therefore, it increases the amount of urine and facilitates the elimination of kidney stones.

How to use: Take 50g of fresh ngổ vegetable, wash it thoroughly, crush it, squeeze out the juice, add a little salt, drink it once, twice a day. Use for 5-7 days. Use it alone or in combination with maize silk, cockscomb, mortar grind. Persistent implementation of this prescription has fairly good results.

Or use finely mashed ngổ vegetable, add water and a little salt, drink twice a day (drink continuously for 7 days).

Or use 50-100g of fresh ngổ vegetable and blend it into a smoothie to drink daily (drink for 15-30 days) or cook with 2 cups of water, boil for 20 minutes and then drink.

Ngổ vegetable treats joint diseases

Can ngổ vegetable treat joint diseases? The answer is yes, because in the composition of ngổ vegetable, there are some ingredients that are good for joints such as coumarin, carotene… This is considered as an effective remedy for joints that minimizes the treatment cost, because ngổ vegetable is easy to grow and the cost is also cheap.

When the ngổ vegetable is harvested, it can be used immediately to prepare the medicine. Clean it, soak it in diluted salt water and remove it to dry. Boil about 50g of fresh ngổ vegetable with 1 liter of filtered water. With this formula, the patient only needs to simmer for about 20 minutes and then turn off the heat, let it cool down before drinking.

This prescription can be used daily to achieve good results for joint patients. The ideal time for ngổ vegetable to work effectively is to drink it every morning.

Ngổ vegetable treats chronic cough due to chronic bronchitis

If you have a long-lasting cough, use about 50g of fresh ngổ vegetable, clean it, crush or grind it and then squeeze out the juice, dissolve a few salt grains.

Right after waking up, drink immediately and regularly for 10-15 days.

Note that when waking up, drink immediately without brushing your teeth or rinsing your mouth.

Note:

In cuisine, ngổ vegetable is a kind of herb used in many dishes such as salads, served with pho, hu tieu or cooked sour soup with sea fish, freshwater fish to have a special delicious taste and prevent many diseases.

When used fresh, the plant stems have a lot of hair so it is difficult to clean all the bacteria that cause diseases, so when processing dishes, especially raw dishes, the vegetables must be thoroughly washed.

If possible, soak it with gentian violet to prevent food poisoning from ngổ vegetable; immerse the ngổ vegetable in boiling water with a temperature of 40-45 degrees Celsius to kill the eggs of parasites (because plants living in swamps, ponds often have insects or parasite eggs attached to stems and leaves).