Analysis of the effects of celery and spinach in lowering blood pressure, blood sugar, and cholesterol: dietary therapy and recipe recommendations
Celery: Clears heat, calms the liver, and lowers blood pressure, blood sugar, and cholesterol. Also known as dry celery, medicinal celery, and fragrant celery.
Taste and Properties: Sweet and pungent in flavor, cool in nature; enters the lung, stomach, and liver meridians. Recommended serving size: 50 grams per meal.
Nutritional Components: Dietary fiber, various vitamins, protein, carbohydrates, coriander glycosides, volatile oils, mannitol, inositol, phosphorus, calcium, iron, etc.
Effects in Lowering Blood Pressure, Blood Sugar, and Cholesterol: Celery contains acidic components that lower blood pressure, dilate blood vessels, and stabilize blood pressure. Celery contains 9.21% linoleic acid, which has important physiological functions and activities, can lower blood lipids, and prevent arteriosclerosis. The active ingredients in celery, such as apigenin and mannitol, have a blood sugar-lowering effect.
Effective Remedies
1. High Blood Pressure: Wash and pound raw celery (remove roots), extract juice, mix with an equal amount of honey, and take 40 ml three times daily; or add a little sugar to celery juice and drink it as tea daily; or decoct 60 grams of celery root in water and drink the decoction; or decoct 30 grams of celery and 9 grams of chrysanthemum in water or steep in boiling water and drink as tea.
2. Diabetes: Extract juice from 500 grams of celery, boil it, and add white sugar before drinking.
Efficacy: Celery contains diuretic components, which promote urination and reduce swelling. Celery is a high-fiber food; after intestinal digestion, it produces lignin, which, at high concentrations, can inhibit the production of carcinogens by intestinal bacteria and accelerate the transit time of feces in the intestines, reducing the contact between carcinogens and the colonic mucosa, thus preventing colon cancer. Celery leaves are high in iron, which can replenish the iron lost during menstruation in women, preventing pale, dry skin and dull complexion, and promoting bright eyes and shiny black hair.
Celery is cool in nature and slippery in texture. Those with weak spleen and stomach, or loose stools, should not eat too much. Celery has a blood pressure-lowering effect, so those with low blood pressure should use it with caution. Men planning to have children should eat it in moderation.
Health-Preserving Recipe:
◆Celery Strips for Lowering Blood Pressure
Main Ingredient: 300g Celery
Side Ingredient: 20g Red Bell Pepper
Seasoning: 2g Salt, 2g MSG, 1ml Sesame Oil
Instructions:
1. Wash the celery, remove the membranes, and cut into strips. Blanch the celery. Immediately rinse in cold water, drain, and set aside.
2. Wash the red bell pepper, cut into strips, and mix with the celery strips, salt, MSG, and sesame oil.
Say Goodbye to High Blood Pressure, High Cholesterol, and High Blood Sugar:
Spinach
◆Promotes Digestion and Controls High Blood Pressure, High Cholesterol, and High Blood Sugar
Also known as spinach or red-rooted spinach.
Taste and Nature: Sweet and pungent; cool in nature; enters the intestinal and stomach meridians.
Recommended serving size: 100-250g per meal. Nutritional Components: Carotene, Vitamin C, Vitamin E, Rutin, Coenzyme Q10, Calcium, Potassium, Phosphorus, Iron, etc.
Benefits for Lowering Blood Pressure, Blood Sugar, and Cholesterol: Spinach is rich in potassium, which can remove excess sodium from the body and effectively lower blood pressure. It also contains a large amount of fiber and an insulin-like substance, which can regulate blood sugar, stimulate intestinal peristalsis, help with bowel movements and detoxification, remove harmful toxins from the gastrointestinal tract, accelerate cholesterol excretion, and promote fat and sugar metabolism. It is an excellent food for controlling the three highs (high blood pressure, high blood sugar, and high cholesterol).
Remedies:
1. High Blood Pressure: Blanch fresh spinach in boiling water for a few minutes, then mix with sesame oil and eat twice daily.
2. Dry Mouth and Throat, High Blood Cholesterol: Simmer an appropriate amount of spinach roots in water and drink the broth regularly.
3. Diabetes: Wash and chop 150 grams of fresh spinach roots, add 10 grams of chicken gizzard lining, add an appropriate amount of water, simmer for 30 minutes, add an appropriate amount of washed rice, cook until it becomes porridge, season, and eat several times a day.
Spinach and Peanuts:
Main Ingredients: 200g spinach, 200g peanuts.
Additional Ingredients: 20g red bell pepper.
Seasonings: 2g salt, 2g MSG, 3ml aged vinegar, 1ml sesame oil, cooking oil as needed.
Instructions:
1. Wash the spinach thoroughly, blanch it, cut it into sections, and place it in a container.
2. Fry the peanuts until cooked, let them cool, and add them to the container.
3. Add red bell pepper, salt, MSG, aged vinegar, and sesame oil, and mix well.
◆ Spinach Tai Chi Porridge
Main Ingredients: 50g spinach, 100g rice.
Seasonings: Salt as needed.
Instructions:
1. Clean the spinach, blanch it in boiling water, rinse it with cold water, drain, and squeeze out the juice using cheesecloth; rinse the rice.
2. Pour water into a pot, add the rice, bring to a boil, then reduce to a simmer and cook for 30 minutes until thickened.
3. Divide the cooked porridge into two portions. Add spinach juice to one portion of porridge, mix well, and add salt.
4. Place an S-shaped divider in a bowl. Pour the two portions of porridge into opposite sides of the divider. Once the porridge has slightly solidified, remove the divider. Place a drop of plain porridge at 2/3 of the way up the spinach porridge, and a drop of spinach porridge at 2/3 of the way up the plain porridge.

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