Morning glory benefits, properties, precautions

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Morning glory , also known as “Pak Tod Yot”, is a well-known health food because it helps nourish the eyes very well. In addition, morning glory has many more properties for your body than that. 

Varieties of morning glory

Before we get to know the benefits of morning glory, let’s first look at the varieties of morning glory that everyone likes to eat. In Thailand, ยูฟ่าเบท it is divided into 2 main varieties: Thai morning glory and Chinese morning glory. 

Thai morning glory is a naturally occurring species of morning glory found in rivers and canals, so it contains more latex than Chinese morning glory. Chinese morning glory is a species imported from abroad. Mostly, the type of morning glory that people like to grow is Chinese morning glory because it has a rather white, plump stem, light green leaves, white flowers, and has less latex than Thai morning glory. 

Nutritional value

100 grams of morning glory provides 22 calories and is rich in fiber, vitamins, and other minerals such as: 

  • Vitamin A 
  • Vitamin C 
  • Vitamin B1 
  • Vitamin B2 
  • Vitamin B3 
  • calcium 
  • phosphorus
  • Iron 

Thai morning glory is high in vitamin C and has more medicinal properties than Chinese morning glory, but it has less calcium and beta-carotene than Chinese morning glory. If eaten raw, the vitamins and minerals are not lost due to heat.

Good benefits of morning glory that you may not know

  1. Helps nourish eyesight and increase eye fluid.
  2. Treats nearsightedness, cataracts, blurred vision, red eyes, and frequent itchy eyes.
  3. It contains antioxidants, which helps to make the skin radiant and smooth.
  4. Helps prevent and reduce the chances of getting cancer.
  5. Enhance brain nourishment potential and enhance memory ability.
  6. It has a lot of fiber which helps with bowel movements and prevents constipation.
  7. Nourishes the blood and helps treat anemia.
  8. It can reduce blood sugar and cholesterol, helping to reduce the chances of diabetes.
  9. Helps to stimulate appetite
  10. Helps nourish the heart, reduces the risk of clogged arteries and heart attacks.
  11. It is low in calories, making it suitable for those who want to control their weight.
  12. Helps nourish the elements
  13. Morning glory tips can help cure nervous disorders.
  14. Helps relieve excessive sweating
  15. Helps relieve headaches and fatigue.
  16. Fresh stems of Thai morning glory help nourish bones and teeth.
  17. Morning glory has a cool taste, so it has properties that help remove toxins from intoxication.
  18. Morning glory roots have a bland, astringent taste and have properties that help detoxify.
  19. Helps fight bacteria
  20. Helps relieve bruises
  21. The flowers of the white morning glory can be used as a remedy for ringworm.
  22. Can be used to remove poison from insect bites and stings.
  23. Treat purulent wounds by boiling fresh roots in water for a long time, leaving them until warm, and then using the water to wash the wound once a day.
  24. Treat centipede bites by using fresh plants, adding salt, and pounding them and applying them to the bitten area.
  25. Fresh stems of the white morning glory can be used to treat burns and scalds.
  26. Fresh stems of white morning glory can help reduce inflammation and swelling.
  27. Helps remove toxins from the body
  28. It can be used to treat drug addicts or those who have been exposed to various toxic substances.

Benefits of morning glory roots

Did you know that the morning glory roots that most people tend to cut off before eating have medicinal properties that are no different? They can be use to treat asthma, relieve chronic coughs, and also reduce vaginal discharge in women. Mix the roots with vinegar and squeeze it to rinse your mouth to relieve pain from tooth decay.

Benefits of fresh morning glory

It has cooling properties, helps to reduce heat, relieve internal heat symptoms, and also helps to nourish the blood. 

If you want to use morning glory to treat canker sores inside your mouth, put fresh morning glory with salt in your mouth for 2 minutes, twice a day. And if it’s Thai morning glory, it can help reduce swelling and blisters, treat hot water burns, and reduce inflammation.

Morning glory is considered an easy-to-grow, inexpensive vegetable. That can be found everywhere in the countryside. But who would have thought that this vegetable has so much nutritional value and hidden medicinal properties? And the reason why restaurants often put morning glory in their dishes is because this vegetable has the property of helping us to have a better appetite.

Choosing between eating Thai morning glory or Chinese morning glory

Many people prefer to eat Chinese morning glory more than Thai morning glory because it tastes much better when stir-fried. It also has larger, softer leaves that are not as hard as Thai morning glory. However, Thai morning glory is more popularly eaten raw with papaya salad or larb. 

By the way, Thai morning glory is outstanding in terms of medicinal properties. Because the flowers can be used for more benefits, such as treating burns, scalds, and reducing various food allergies.

Therefore, both types of morning glory have benefits, but they just have different strengths.

But even though morning glory has many good properties, there are some exceptions that you have to be careful about. For example, those with low blood pressure should avoid eating morning glory because it has the property of lowering blood pressure, which can make it even lower, which can easily cause cramps. 

Another precaution when eating this vegetable is that you should wash off all the water spinach latex because it can cause diarrhea.

Now that you’ve seen so many benefits, you can try thinking of a menu using morning glory. It’s delicious, nutritious, and very cheap. But if you want to eat morning glory fresh or boiled, you’ll definitely get all the benefits.