Fishy grass is a type of traditional Chinese medicine with high medicinal value and can treat various diseases. It is known as "natural antibiotic". Traditional Chinese medicine believes that it has a pungent taste and cold properties, and can clear heat, detoxify, relieve pain, reduce swelling, treat sores, promote diuresis, eliminate dampness, improve digestion, and have antibacterial and anti-inflammatory effects. It is also effective for colds, fevers, and gynecological diseases in women. Today, I will recommend several traditional Chinese medicinal recipes using fishy grass, which have good antibacterial and anti-inflammatory effects.
1. Fishy Grass Winter Melon Lean Meat Soup
Ingredients: 30g fishy grass, 200g winter melon, 150g lean meat, 20g coix seed, 10g Fritillaria cirrhosa, salt to taste.
Instructions:
1. Wash the winter melon and cut it into chunks. Wash the lean meat and cut it into pieces. Wash the coix seed and soak it. Wash the Fritillaria cirrhosa.
2. Blanch the lean meat in boiling water to remove blood.
3. Put the winter melon, lean meat, coix seed, and Fritillaria cirrhosa into a pot, add an appropriate amount of water, and simmer for 1.5 hours. Add salt to taste.
Benefits:
1. Fishy grass: It has the functions of clearing heat, detoxifying, reducing swelling, promoting diuresis, stopping diarrhea, antibacterial, and improving digestion.
2. Winter melon: It has the effects of clearing heat, detoxifying, delaying aging, diuresis, reducing swelling, and weight loss.
3. Coix seed: It has the effects of detoxification, lipid-lowering, diuresis, relieving edema, beauty and skincare, dampness, and spleen health, and anti-cancer.
4. Lean meat: It has the functions of nourishing deficiency, nourishing yin, moistening dryness, and nourishing the skin.
5. Fishy grass winter melon lean meat soup: This soup has the effects of clearing heat and moistening the lungs, relieving cough and phlegm, diuresis and bowel movement, reducing swelling and detoxification, antibacterial and anti-inflammatory, and dampness and spleen health.
2. Fishy Grass Hawthorn Tea
Ingredients: 7g fishy grass (dried), 6g hawthorn.
Instructions:
1. Use hot water to warm the tea cup, drain the water to increase the temperature of the tea set to stabilize the temperature after brewing the tea leaves.
2. Put the fishy grass and hawthorn into the cup, pour in boiling water, cover the lid, and let it steep for about 10 minutes before drinking.
Benefits:
1. Fishy grass: It has a pungent taste and cold properties, and can clear heat, detoxify, regulate the intestines and stomach, and eliminate edema.
2. Hawthorn: It has the functions of appetizing, promoting digestion, promoting blood circulation, preventing cancer, and stopping diarrhea.
3. Fishy grass hawthorn tea: This tea has the effects of clearing heat, detoxifying, relieving diarrhea, antibacterial, and anti-inflammatory. It can assist in the treatment of enteritis, improve appetite, and regulate the intestines and stomach.
3. Cold Salad with Fishy Grass
Ingredients: 200g fishy grass.
Seasoning: Salt, monosodium glutamate, pepper powder, chili oil, and sugar to taste.
Instructions:
1. Wash the fishy grass and cut it into sections. Soak it in salt water for 5 minutes.
2. Add monosodium glutamate, salt, pepper powder, chili oil, and sugar. Mix well.
Benefits: Fishy grass has the effects of clearing heat, detoxifying, diuresis, and reducing swelling. Making it into a cold dish has certain therapeutic effects on respiratory infections, lung abscess, urinary tract infections, mastitis, cellulitis, otitis media, and enteritis.
Reminder: People with weak and cold constitution and those with carbuncles and ulcers caused by Yin cold should avoid eating it.
