Chinese herbal medicine Da Chao Cai is the whole herb or seeds of the legume plant Da Chao Cai, which contains rich protein, vitamins, and various trace elements such as potassium, calcium, and zinc. Let's learn more about Da Chao Cai together.
【Benefits of Da Chao Cai】
1. "Ben Cao Shi Yi": Regulates the middle, promotes digestion in the small and large intestines.
2. "Hai Yao Ben Cao": Mainly promotes urination, reduces swelling, and moisturizes the large intestine.
3. "Pin Hui Jing Yao": Benefits Qi, moisturizes the skin, clears the mind, and strengthens determination.
4. "Cao Mu Bian Fang": Promotes blood circulation, breaks up blood clots, stops bleeding, and promotes tissue regeneration. Treats jaundice and swelling, clears organ heat, treats malaria, improves stomach health, and enhances vision and hearing.
5. "Sichuan Materia Medica": Nourishes the blood. Treats kidney deficiency, nocturnal emissions, back pain, and damp-heat edema.
【Ways to Consume Da Chao Cai】
1. Water soapberry and Da Chao Cai soup: 50g of Da Chao Cai, 30g of water soapberry. Boil them together and drink the soup.
Both ingredients in this recipe have diuretic properties. It is used for edema, urinary retention, or damp-heat with yellowing of the skin.
2. Da Chao Cai and shepherd's purse soup: 50g of fresh Da Chao Cai, 30g of shepherd's purse. Boil them together and drink the soup.
Both Da Chao Cai and shepherd's purse can stop bleeding, but they have cooling properties. It is used for nosebleeds, coughing up blood, and vomiting blood caused by blood heat.
【Methods of Using Da Chao Cai】
1. Treatment for malaria: 50g of Da Chao Cai, decocted in water and taken orally.
2. Treatment for nosebleeds: 50g of Da Chao Cai, decocted in sweet wine and consumed.
3. Treatment for irregular menstruation: 25g each of Da Chao Cai seeds and small blood vine, soaked in alcohol and taken orally.
4. Treatment for boils: Fresh Da Chao Cai, mashed and applied topically with salt brine.
