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7. Is it effective to treat constipation with kelp?
6. Constipation is a problem that troubles many people, so the treatment of constipation also needs to be taken seriously. In daily life, attention should be paid to choosing effective foods that can help improve constipation, such as seaweed and kelp, which have certain effects on improving constipation.
1. Kelp and seaweed are the most common algae foods on the dining table, which are favored by people for their rich iodine and other nutrients. According to traditional Chinese medicine, kelp is salty and cold in taste and property, with the effects of softening hardness, resolving phlegm, and promoting diuresis and heat evacuation, suitable for patients with goiter, hypertension, edema, and other conditions; seaweed is sweet, salty, and cold in taste and property, with the effects of clearing heat and promoting diuresis, suitable for patients with goiter, chronic bronchitis, cough, edema, and insomnia due to restlessness.
2. Seaweed and kelp are both common algae foods on the dining table, which are favored by people for their rich iodine and other nutrients. Traditional Chinese medicine believes that kelp is salty and cold in taste and property, with the effects of softening hardness, resolving phlegm, and promoting diuresis and heat evacuation, suitable for patients with goiter, hypertension, edema, and other conditions; seaweed is sweet, salty, and cold in taste and property, with the effects of clearing heat and promoting diuresis, suitable for patients with goiter, chronic bronchitis, cough, edema, and insomnia due to restlessness.
3. Kelp can prevent the deposition of fat on the arterial wall and has the effects of lowering blood pressure and blood lipids. There has been a practice of using kelp to lower blood pressure in folk medicine in China and Japan. Therefore, hypertension patients can take 30 grams of kelp and 15 grams of cassia seed. After washing the kelp, soak it for 5 hours, then put it in a pot with the soup, add cassia seed, and boil for more than an hour. After cooling, drink the soup and eat the kelp, which has the effects of clearing heat, improving eyesight, and lowering blood fat and pressure.
4. The most prominent advantage of seaweed is its abundant in very soft rough fiber. Each 100 grams of dried product contains 4.8 grams of rough fiber, acting as a dedicated ‘cleaner’ in the human intestines. It can remove mucus, gas, and decayed matter in the intestines in time, which is beneficial for the excretion of harmful substances in the body and can effectively prevent the occurrence of colorectal cancer and constipation. For constipation patients, taking 10 grams of seaweed, with a moderate amount of sesame oil, soy sauce, and monosodium glutamate, half an hour before dinner, and drinking the soup the next day can be effective. It is also effective to drink one or two bowls of seaweed soup on an empty stomach every morning, which has a significant therapeutic effect on constipation. Although kelp also has the effect of defecation, it is slightly inferior to seaweed.
5. In addition, seaweed is rich in vitamin U, which is 70 times higher than that of cabbage. Vitamin U has the function of preventing ulcers and promoting the healing of ulcers. Therefore, eating seaweed soup regularly has a certain auxiliary therapeutic effect on gastric and duodenal ulcers.
