Can potatoes reduce swelling and blood stasis?

Due to some unexpected situations, the skin may be squeezed and collided, which will cause blood stasis. Blood stasis often causes swelling. Many people use potato slices to apply to the affected area, hoping to reduce swelling and remove blood stasis. The role of potato slices in this regard should be said to be relatively limited. If the condition is more serious, you can use Yunnan Baiyao aerosol, analgesic tincture, and cooperate with some drugs to achieve a good therapeutic effect.

1. Cucumber

There are many ways to eat cucumbers. They can be eaten raw, mixed with cold dishes, stir-fried, or added to soups. Cucumber is sweet and cold in nature. It enters the stomach and small intestine meridians and has the effects of clearing heat and quenching thirst, promoting diuresis and detoxifying. Eaten raw, it can quench thirst. If you want to promote diuresis and reduce swelling, it is best to drink it as soup. Note: Cucumbers are cold in nature, so people with cold stomachs should eat less.

2. Winter melon,

Winter melon tastes sweet and is neutral in nature. It has the effects of diuresis, swelling reduction, heat clearing and detoxification. Rich in vitamin B1 and fiber, it helps the large intestine to move and excrete waste and toxins. Winter melon is a natural diuretic and detumescent agent, and has a good detumescent effect on diabetics. The diuretic and anti-edema function of winter melon mainly lies in the rind, so it needs to be boiled with the rind.

3. Barley

Job's tears can be divided into two types: raw and cooked. The half raw and half cooked can balance each other and have a quick effect, so as to achieve the effect of strengthening the spleen and eliminating dampness. Coix seed contains various ingredients such as coix seed oil, coix ester, phytosterols, etc. Coix seed oil can prevent or reduce skeletal muscle contraction and has a stimulating effect on the uterus. Its fatty oil can lower serum calcium and blood sugar levels, and has antipyretic, sedative and analgesic effects. Job's tears can promote blood and water metabolism, has a diuretic and anti-edema effect, and can also excrete excess water from the body.

4. Coffee

Coffee is widely used to reduce fat and reduce edema. Caffeine can promote the body's metabolism, increase heat energy consumption and thus accelerate fat decomposition. At the same time, caffeine can also accelerate the body's water drainage and is also effective in removing edema from the face and eyes. Diabetics drink two cups of black coffee without sugar or milk every day, which not only reduces edema but also has a good weight loss effect