The efficacy of soaking papaya in water

The weather is hot in the summer, especially during the dog days of summer, when it feels even hotter. At this time, you need to drink more water, because you sweat a lot every day and your body will be seriously dehydrated. Dried papaya is a great choice for soaking in water. It contains a large amount of vitamins and trace elements, which can supplement the body's nutrients. It can stimulate more energy when dissolved in water. Drinking more papaya water can beautify your skin. Let me introduce it to you below.

1. Clear the heart and moisten the lungs. It can be stewed. Papaya stewed with rock sugar can clear the heart and moisten the lungs, and treat diseases such as laryngitis.

2. Prolong life Papaya is also known as the "longevity fruit" in China. Eating more papaya can prolong life.

3. To protect your hair, wash your hair with papaya decoction to increase the luster of your hair. It is recorded in "Taiping Shenghui Fang" that combing your hair with papaya soaked in oil can cure "dry and dull hair".

4. Treatment of athlete's foot: Washing feet with papaya can cure athlete's foot edema. There is an interesting story: There was a man named Gu Anzhong in Guangde, Anhui Province. He suffered from severe athlete's foot, his tendons were sore and his legs were swollen. He could not walk, so he had to take a boat home. As the boat sailed in the water, he looked worried. In his upset, he accidentally put his feet on a sack of goods. When he got off the boat, he found that his swollen legs had lessened and the pain had disappeared. He was very surprised and asked the boatman what was in the bag. The boatman answered it was papaya. After Gu Anzhong returned home, he bought some papaya slices and put them in a bag. He put his feet on the slices every day. Soon, his athlete's foot was cured. This record shows that papaya is indeed effective in treating rheumatic pain.

5. Apply to external hemorrhoids Papaya can also be used to apply to external hemorrhoids. Relieve ulcers: If you rub papaya juice on the ulcerated skin, it can accelerate the healing of the ulcer surface.

6. Antibacterial and antibacterial Modern medicine has also discovered that papaya contains carpaquinine, which has the effects of anesthetic central nervous system and anti-amebic dysentery, anti-tumor, antibacterial and anti-parasitic diseases. It has a significant therapeutic effect on gastrocnemius spasm and also has the function of anti-lymphocytic leukemia.

7. Promote digestion. Eating papaya is also beneficial to gastrointestinal digestion and absorption. When you eat more eggs, meat, milk, and some indigestible foods at a banquet or at a family meal, you will feel gastrointestinal discomfort. After eating some papaya, the gastrointestinal discomfort will disappear. The reason is that the protein-digesting enzyme in papaya is working. This enzyme can digest protein, which is beneficial to the body's digestion and absorption of food, and therefore has the effect of strengthening the spleen and digesting food. Also, if you eat too much meat, fat will accumulate in the lower body. At this time, after eating some papaya, the enzymes in the papaya will help break down the meat, reduce the workload of the gastrointestinal tract, and make the fleshy legs slowly become more bony.

8. Lightens spots and moisturizes the skin. Papaya can balance and strengthen the physiological metabolic balance of hormones in adolescents and pregnant women, reduce the formation of facial dark spots, pigmentation, and acne, and can lighten existing pigmentation and dark spots, moisturize the skin and nourish the face.