Ranking of the "contributors" to moisturizing the intestines and nourishing the skin: bitter foods are the best for preventing cancer and detoxification

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.

Traditional Chinese medicine believes that tea tastes sweet and bitter, is slightly cold in nature, and can relieve a variety of toxins. Tea contains a rich active substance called tea polyphenols, which has a detoxifying effect. Tea polyphenols, as a natural antioxidant, can scavenge active oxygen free radicals; it can precipitate or reduce heavy metal ions and can serve as an antidote for biological alkali poisoning. In addition, tea polyphenols can improve the body's antioxidant capacity, lower blood lipids, relieve blood hypercoagulability, enhance cell elasticity, prevent thrombosis, and relieve or delay the occurrence of atherosclerosis and hypertension.

Momordica charantia

Generally speaking, bitter foods have a slightly bitter taste with a sweet aftertaste. They have a detoxifying function and can clear away heat. Bitter melon has the effects of relieving heat, clearing away heat, improving eyesight and detoxifying. After analyzing the ingredients contained in bitter melon, it was found that bitter melon contains a protein with obvious anti-cancer physiological activity. This protein can stimulate the body's immune system defense function, increase the activity of immune cells, and eliminate harmful substances in the body.

Fig

Fig 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.

carrot

Carrots are an effective detoxifying food. Not only are they rich in carotene, which can increase the body's vitamin A after eating, they also contain a large amount of pectin. This substance combines with mercury to effectively reduce the concentration of mercury ions in the blood and accelerate the elimination of mercury ions in the body, thus having a mercury-removing effect.

In addition, there are many vegetables that we often eat that are good at detoxification. For example, tomatoes are sweet, sour and slightly cold, which can clear away heat and detoxify, promote fluid production and quench thirst, and cool blood and promote blood circulation; winter melon is sweet, light and slightly cold, and has obvious effects of clearing heat and detoxifying, promoting diuresis and reducing swelling, and resolving phlegm and quenching thirst; loofah is sweet, flat and cold in nature, and has the effects of clearing heat and cooling blood, detoxifying and activating blood circulation; cucumbers and bamboo shoots can clear away heat and promote diuresis; celery can clear away heat and promote diuresis, cool blood and clear liver heat, and has the effect of lowering blood pressure; carrots can combine with heavy metal mercury and excrete it from the body; garlic can reduce the concentration of lead in the body; mushrooms can cleanse the blood; sweet potatoes, taro, potatoes, etc. have the effect of cleansing the intestines.