Bitter Greens: Good Food And Good Medicine

This plant has a scientific name as Bacopa monniera. It was used in traditional Indian medicine 3,000 years ago. The miraculous medicinal properties of this plant have made the ancient Indian people give it a respectful attitude.
Hindus also call this tree Brahmi, which is a word derived from "Brahma".
If anyone knows about Hinduism, which is very popular in India, then it is easy to know that Brahma is the creator, that is one of the three unified persons next to the other two, Vishnu

. (Conservator) and Shiva (Destroyer).
According to ancient Indian medical literature, this plant has the effect of increasing memory capacity, reducing mental fatigue, helping people become more alert, treating epilepsy, curing certain ailments. about the intestines .



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According to the researchers, Indians were early aware of the importance of the brain, because it plays an important role in human activities and because of the magical effect of Bacopa monniera for the brain. which it has been worshiped and worshiped as "Brahmi" by Hindus.
In fact, this plant is also very familiar to the people of Vietnam, especially those who live in the southern plains, fertile lands, interlaced canals.
Talking about Southern cuisine, we cannot mention bitter sea vegetables. This vegetable is "easy" as the people here, without care can still grow in places where there is soil such as: rice fields, bamboo bushes, mixed with grass, in the summer, at the corner of the garden.
Bitter greens are best when just after the rain, because they will be fat at that time Bitter vegetables can be dipped into hotpot, cook different types of soup such as copper fish soup, snakehead fish soup or simply dot with fish sauce.




People who are addicted to bitter vegetables also have a reason, because the majority of people feel after eating it is that the nervous stress due to work pressure also decreases, the next day working, the mind is more alert, more refreshing, the heat in the body makes people feel uncomfortable, some cases of digestive disorders are also somewhat stable ...
Decode the substance in bitter sea vegetables
Currently, scientists have shed some light on this vegetable. Bitter greens contain active ingredients saponin including bacoside A and bacoside B, which work to increase brain circulation, enhance impulse conduction in the nervous system, antioxidant brain cells, help alertness and awareness.
Some ancient Indians call this plant Phenavati. In Sanskrit, "Phena" can be roughly interpreted as foaming.
Indeed, when bitter vegetables are cooked with water, it will produce much foam which is now thought to be the saponin in the released bitter sea vegetable.




An alkaloid brahmine has also been found in bitter sea vegetables, similar to strychnin but less toxic.
According to traditional medicine documents, bitter vegetables have cool, bitter taste, have the ability to clear heat and eliminate poison, often used in cases of dysentery, red-eye swelling, hepatitis, asthma, nerve aids, heart aids , epilepsy, used as an enema, cough, external use to treat scabies ...
Modern scientists also discovered that bitter sea vegetables have analgesic, anti-inflammatory, inhibiting cancer cells, good for irritable bowel syndrome, for Alzheimer's patients, patients after stroke. ...



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