Is drinking perilla juice every day good for your health?
Health & Life Newspaper quoted Traditional Medicine Practitioner Tran Dang Tai - Vice President of the Oriental Medicine Association of Thai Hoa Town - Nghe An , saying that perilla leaves contain some active ingredients that cause high blood pressure and damage the cardiovascular system. In addition, drinking too much perilla juice can also cause digestive disorders, bloating, flatulence and many other unwanted side effects. Therefore, each person should only drink about 2 glasses of perilla leaf juice per day, divided into small portions. You should still use filtered water to provide enough water for the body.
On the other hand, if you sometimes feel bored with drinking plain water, you can boil perilla leaves with rock sugar to strengthen the body's immune system. Because these two types contain antioxidants and vitamin C, which help strengthen the immune system and fight against bacteria and viruses.
Perilla can make the following medical conditions worse, sweating more, uncontrolled night sweats, prolonged loose stools... leading to electrolyte disturbances and imbalances in the body. In addition, perilla leaves contain a lot of oxalic acid. If used too much, the body will accumulate oxalic acid in the adrenal glands, causing kidney failure and kidney stones.
As mentioned, perilla is a medicinal herb that is beneficial to health, however in some cases it alone cannot be a medicine and needs to be combined with other medicinal herbs.
Drinking perilla juice every day is good for health is a concern of many people.
Some remedies using perilla leaves
The article on the Medlatec General Hospital website has medical consultation from BSCKI. Duong Ngoc Van guides some remedies from perilla leaves as follows:
– Cold relief: Use a handful of fresh perilla leaves with 3 slices of ginger and 2 chopped onions, put them in a bowl, then crack in an egg and scoop in porridge, mix well and eat hot.
– Cure bloating and stomachache: Crush a handful of perilla leaves with a little salt and squeeze out the juice to drink.
– Cure shortness of breath and cough: Use the peeled roots of the mulberry tree and perilla leaves, put them in a pot and boil with enough water until there is only one cup of water left, then strain and drink.
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