What can I eat to detoxify?

Sometimes people may get poisoned by accidentally eating some poisonous food, or if a non-toxic food is added to another food, the nutrients of the two foods together may very likely cause poisoning. The first thing to do in case of poisoning is to induce vomiting or catharsis, and secondly you can take some detoxifying foods. Let’s find out what foods can be eaten to detoxify poisoning.

1. Mung Beans:

Traditional Chinese medicine believes that mung beans are sweet and cold in nature, and can detoxify metals, stones, arsenic, and plants. It can prevent and treat heavy metal poisoning, pesticide poisoning and other types of food poisoning. Mung bean soup is the best detoxifying water to accelerate the metabolic transformation of toxic substances in the body and excrete them out. Therefore, people who are often exposed to harmful substances such as lead, arsenic, cadmium, fertilizers, pesticides, etc. should eat more mung bean soup, mung bean porridge, and mung bean sprouts in their daily diet. Pig blood: Traditional Chinese medicine believes that pig blood is beneficial for bowel movements and removing intestinal dirt. Modern medicine has confirmed that the plasma protein in pig blood can produce a detoxifying and intestinal cleansing decomposition product after being decomposed by gastric acid in the human body. This substance can undergo a biochemical reaction with dust and harmful metal particles that invade the human body, and then be excreted from the digestive tract.

2. Kelp:

Traditional Chinese medicine believes that kelp is cold in nature and salty in taste, and has the functions of softening and dispersing lumps, clearing away heat and promoting diuresis, and removing fat and lowering blood pressure. Modern medicine believes that the alginate in kelp can reduce the absorption of radioactive element strontium by the intestines and excrete it out of the body. Therefore, kelp can prevent leukemia (blood cancer) and also has an excretion effect on cadmium that enters the body.

3. Tea:

The detoxifying effect of tea was recorded as early as in the "Shennengnong Materia Medica". Modern medicine believes that tea has the effect of accelerating the excretion of toxic substances in the body, which is inseparable from the combined effects of tea polyphenols, polysaccharides and vitamin C it contains. Fig: It is a top-quality fruit, rich in organic acids and various enzymes. It has the effects of clearing heat and moistening the intestines, aiding digestion, protecting the liver and detoxifying. In recent years, it has been discovered that figs have a certain resistance to toxic substances such as sulfur dioxide, sulfur trioxide, hydrogen chloride and benzene.

4. Carrots:

Carrots are also an effective detoxifying food.

5. Induce vomiting:

If the food is eaten within one to two hours, vomiting can be induced. Drinking concentrated salt water or ginger water can quickly induce vomiting. If the food you vomited is spoiled meat, you can take Ten Drops of Water to promote rapid vomiting. Some patients may also use chopsticks, fingers or goose feathers to irritate the throat and induce vomiting.

6. Catharsis:

If the patient has eaten the poisoned food for more than two hours and is still in good spirits, he can take some laxatives to help the poisoned food be excreted from the body as soon as possible.