Can boiling eggplant in water relieve cough?

Eggplant is a very common vegetable in daily life. In addition to being made into delicious food, eggplant also has high medicinal value. Eggplant is called "eggplant stalk" in traditional Chinese medicine. It has the effects of clearing heat and detoxifying, preventing and treating cardiovascular and cerebrovascular diseases. In life, many people use diet therapy to prevent diseases. Symptoms such as coughing are annoying to many people. Coughing is a stubborn symptom and sometimes drug treatment may not be effective, but diet therapy can overcome it step by step. So, can boiling eggplant in water relieve cough?

1. Medicinal value of eggplant

Eggplant is relatively cold in nature, and the eggplant stem can just balance its coldness. Everyone is well aware of the nutritional value of eggplant. In fact, the whole eggplant can be used as medicine. Its fruit, stalk, stalk, root, flower, leaf, and seedling all have the functions of relieving pain and swelling, clearing away heat, and promoting blood circulation. The eggplant stem has a thicker texture and is the key part with better medicinal properties. Eggplant stems contain a variety of vitamins, which can lower cholesterol, lower blood pressure, and have anti-cancer and cardiovascular and cerebrovascular disease prevention and treatment effects. Eggplant stems can also prevent oral ulcers. The medicinal value of eggplant stems has been recorded in ancient books: [Functions and indications] Cooling blood and detoxification. It is used to treat intestinal bleeding, carbuncle, mouth ulcer and toothache.

2. How to boil eggplant

Method: Take 3 fresh long purple eggplants and cut off the root and stems. Put them in the refrigerator and freeze them for half a day (make sure they are frozen thoroughly). Then put them in a pot and boil water. Boil the water for 5 minutes and turn off the heat. Remove the eggplant stems and drink the water, 3 times a day. The eggplant stems have medicinal value of clearing away heat, and after being frozen, their coldness increases. They can be said to be the right remedy for lung heat cough caused by internal heat.

3. Dietary precautions for eggplant

Be careful when eating eggplant, as it is cold. Unlike other cold foods, its cool nature goes directly into the stomach and causes a cold stomach. Therefore, eggplant is best eaten with garlic. Most people like to add garlic when cooking eggplant, as they feel the dish won’t taste good without garlic. In fact, this is the body's instinctive choice. Garlic is hot in nature and can warm the stomach, which can offset the cold nature of eggplant. There is another very important point. Eggplant is slightly poisonous, but garlic can detoxify. Adding more garlic when cooking eggplant can protect the spleen and stomach. Cough is a disease that is not easy to treat, so in the early stages of the disease, in addition to taking medicine, drinking boiled eggplant water can also help us effectively relieve the symptoms. However, it is not advisable to consume it in excess. If you take too much, your body will experience side effects. Everything has its own effect, and as long as it is used correctly, good results will appear.