Health Benefits of Water Spinach (Ipomoea aquatica) For Beauty and Medicine
Water Spinach (Ipomoea aquatica) is a semiaquatic, tropical plant grown as a vegetable for its tender shoots and leaves. It is found throughout the tropical and subtropical regions of the world, although it is not known where it originated. This plant is known in English as water spinach, river spinach, water morning glory, water convolvulus, or by the more ambiguous names Chinese spinach, Chinese Watercress, Chinese convolvulus, swamp cabbage or kangkong in Southeast Asia.
Occasionally, it has also been mistakenly called "kale" in English, although kale is a strain of mustard belonging to the species Brassica oleracea and is completely unrelated to water spinach, which is a species of morning glory. It is known as phak bung in Thai, ong choy in Cantonese, kongxincai in Mandarin Chinese, rau muống in Vietnamese, kangkong in Tagalog, trokuon in Khmer, kolmou xak in Assamese, kalmi shak in Bengali, kangkung in Indonesian, Malay and Sinhalese and hayoyo in Ghana.
Nutrient content of 100 grams of water spinach
- Energy 29 cal
- Protein 3 g Fat 0.3 g
- Carbohydrates 5.4 g
- Fiber 1.0 g
- Calcium 73 mg
- Phosphorus 50 mg
- Iron 2.5 mg
- Vitamin A 6,300 IU
- Vitamin B1 0.07 mg
- Vitamin C 32 mg
- Water 89.7 g
What are the Health Benefits of Water Spinach (Ipomoea aquatica) For Beauty and Medicine :
- Reduce Menstrual Diseases
- disease Nosebleed
- Disease Headache
- Hemorrhoid disease
- disease Insomnia
- Disease Toothache
- Smooth urine disease
- disease Dandruff
- Diseases Constipation, nausea for pregnant women
- Swollen gums disease
- disease Calluses
- Itchy skin diseases as eczema
- Centipede bites Disease
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