What are the uses of cactus

We all know that cacti have the function of radiation protection, so in addition to this, what are the uses of cacti?

What are the uses of cactus?

Cactus has many uses, and its contribution to medicine is very large. The whole plant is used as medicine (except thorns). It can be picked up in four seasons. Fresh or sliced and dried. It has the effects of clearing away heat and toxic materials, relaxing muscles and activating collaterals, dispersing stasis and detumescence, relieving intestinal toxicity, cooling blood and relieving pain, moistening intestines and stopping bleeding, strengthening stomach and relieving pain, relieving cough, etc. For stomach, duodenal ulcer, hemorrhoids, acute dysentery, cough; topical treatment of mumps, mastitis, carbuncle swelling poison, external hemorrhoids, snake bites, burns and scalds.

As a vegetable is also a kind of cactus use, cactus has always been a traditional American food, is an indispensable feature of people's daily life vegetables and fruits, people will be cactus washed and chopped in soup, or rack on the oven baking, or make pie filling, or directly marinate fresh cactus, there are cactus to wine (tequila). Cactus is one of the vegetables known to have the highest levels of vitamin B2 and soluble fiber, and cactus is high in potassium, low in sodium, low in sugar, and lower in sugar than lettuce and cucumber.

The simplest use of cactus is indoor green, known as the night "oxygen bar" cactus breathing more at night when it is cooler and humid. Breathing in carbon dioxide and releasing oxygen. Dust adsorption experts do not underestimate cactus, people or dust adsorption experts do! In antimony star, indoor place a cactus, especially hydroponic cactus (because hydroponic cactus cleaner environmental protection), can play a role in purifying the environment.

Cactus is also used in many aspects such as beauty and water storage. Cactus juice is cut open with a knife and applied to the face. After 15 minutes, it is washed with water. It has whitening and moisturizing effect. Cactus surface has a layer of wax, and its leaves have evolved into needles, reducing the surface area and thus reducing water transpiration. Cactus contains poison alkali, which can act on the central nervous system after eating, causing people to produce various illusions. It is an important plant for Peruvian local sacrifices to contact the spiritual world from the 1st to the 7th century AD.

How to eat cactus

Edible cactus if rich in vitamin B1, B2, carotene and calcium, magnesium, iron and other trace elements and a variety of amino acids, have clearing away heat and detoxification, pus and muscle, qi and blood circulation and other effects. At the same time, cactus contains more cellulose, after eating can inhibit the absorption of cholesterol and fat, but also can slow down the human body's blood intake of glucose, but also can supplement the body's essential crude fiber, is a new type of health vegetables.

Edible cactus cuticle has a small number of short thorns, before eating with a kitchen knife gently scrape off the surface of the soft thorns and thorns seat. Older stem slices, with fruit planing to both sides of the skin, the remaining stem meat part, and then placed in 1% salt water or sugar water soak for 5-10 minutes, and then do not rinse with water, can remove part of the sour taste, taste better. Edible cactus tender stems for vegetables, can be fresh, pickled or processed into other foods.

1. Make cold dishes: Cut the cacti into the required shape, blanch them in boiling water, and mix them with a variety of foods. According to different tastes, add different seasonings, can be made with carrot shreds, vermicelli, jellyfish skin, etc. cold dish. It can also be made into salad with other vegetables and fruits.

2, cooked food: can be cut into pieces, slices, silk, strips, Ding and other shapes, fried, fried, boiled can be. Such as fried eggs, stewed chicken, fried shredded pork, stewed ribs, stewed chicken soup, can also be cut into pieces and sweet corn, shrimp and so on to make appetizer soup.

3. Pickled vegetables: The whole stem slices can be put into the marinating tank, or they can be cut into pieces and pickled. Made into pickles, taste very good.

4. Fried (fried) cactus: After sprinkling some dry starch and seasonings on the cactus with its skin removed, the whole piece is fried or fried in an oil pan or frying pan until golden yellow, with unique flavor.

5. Processing into other foods: mincing cacti and mixing them with corn flour, flour and rice flour into cacti cakes. Cactus juice can also be made into drinks, cool thirst.