According to traditional medicine, leeks are warm in nature and can warm the kidneys and help the yang, benefit the spleen and stomach, and regulate blood flow. Eating more leeks can nourish the liver and strengthen the qi of the spleen and stomach. Leeks contain more dietary fiber, which enhances gastrointestinal motility and can effectively prevent habitual constipation and intestinal cancer. These dietary fibers can also wrap up hair, grit, and even metal in the digestive tract and expel it from the body with the stool, so it is known as “bowel cleansing grass”. In addition, because leeks contain more dietary fiber, more chewy, people can exercise chewing muscles when eating, but also can effectively prevent the production of dental caries. The sulfur compounds in leeks have the effect of lowering blood lipids and dilating blood vessels, which is suitable for treating cardiovascular diseases and hypertension. In addition, this compound enhances the function of the tyrosine system in melanocytes, thus regulating melanin in skin follicles, eliminating skin leukoplakia and making hair dark and shiny. Women with skin leukoplakia can achieve the dual effect of removing spots and losing weight by eating leeks regularly. Leeks contain sexual stimulants that excite the sexual organs and are known in the pharmacopoeia as the “Yang-boosting herb”. Can pregnant women eat leeks? It is reasonable to say that you can eat leeks during pregnancy because they contain a lot of iron and many trace elements that are good for your baby. But you can’t eat more, because leeks are spicy cold food, for pregnant women, it is not recommended to eat too much, and leeks have the effect of causing your milk to become less after giving birth, many women have shown that leeks can directly inhibit human milk secretion, which led to the statement that you can’t eat leeks. In addition, the leek now has more pesticide residues, cleaning is not clean, after eating, resulting in diarrhea, vomiting, etc., but indirectly on the baby’s impact. Pregnant women eating leek precautions 1, leek should not be eaten with beef: leek is pungent and warm, with the role of warming the Yang, beef is sweet and warm, with the benefit of the function of the Yang, the two eat together, such as pouring oil on the fire, easy to make people false fire rise, leading to gum swelling and pain. 2, leeks should not be eaten with honey: leeks in the vitamin C is easy to be destroyed by the minerals in honey, and leeks are rich in dietary fiber, and honey laxative, a large number of the same food, easy to cause diarrhea. 3, leeks should not be eaten with white wine: white wine is hot and pungent, will promote blood circulation, dilation of blood vessels, and leeks are pungent and warm, warm and aphrodisiac, the two eaten together, for people recovering from a serious illness is too hot and pungent, so can not eat together. 4, leek should not be eaten with vinegar: leek and vinegar with food, will destroy the carotenoids in leek, easy to cause nutrient flow. 5, leeks should not drink milk with food: leeks contain oxalic acid, milk is rich in calcium, and oxalic acid will affect the absorption of calcium in milk, will cause a lack of milk nutrition. 6, leeks are best with pork: leeks are not easy to digest, so try to eat with other foods that can ease the stimulation of leeks on the stomach and intestines. In addition, leeks are rich in sulfides, which can promote the body to absorb vitamin B1, so leeks are more nutritious to eat if they are paired with vitamin B1-rich pork-type foods. 7, summer should not eat more leeks. Summer leek has more aging, more fiber and rough, not easily absorbed, and summer gastrointestinal function is reduced, especially for pregnant women, gastrointestinal function is more fragile, eat more leeks are likely to cause abdominal distension discomfort or diarrhea. 8, eat leeks should not be heated for too long. Leeks are rich in vitamin B, heating can make this complementary components destroyed, the longer the heating time, the more damage. So should not be heated for a long time after eating. 9, should not eat leeks raw. The time of cooking leeks should be skillful, neither heated for too long nor eaten raw. Because leeks are more cellulose, and difficult to digest, and unlike onions and garlic can be peeled and eaten raw, the edible part is closer to the ground, often contaminated with microorganisms, parasitic eggs, and more strains, not easy to wash clean, easy to catch disease, so should not be eaten raw. 10, Yin deficiency fire people should not eat leeks pungent warm help Yang, can dry the fire, depleting the true Yin, animal experiments have shown that the experimental animals can be manic, spasms and even death, so the “Materia Medica for truth” said: “Fire Sheng Yin deficiency, the most contraindicated.” 11, in the leek, contains a substance called oxalic acid, which is a substance that can prevent trace elements from entering the fetus. So once a pregnant woman eats too many leeks, the oxalic acid substance in her body will appear in large quantities. If the fetus does not get timely compensation of trace elements, it is easy to have various congenital diseases, so pregnant women should be very careful about eating leeks. 12, leek is a cold food, if you eat too much, it is easy to cause diarrhea. If a pregnant woman has repeated diarrhea, she may have a pre-eclampsia miscarriage. 13, in addition to the amount of control on the consumption, it is best to be able to cook leeks before the water repeatedly several times, so that you can get rid of the leeks in the oxalic acid substances, to maximize the protection of the health of pregnant women.