For most people nowadays, it is common to have some essential emergency medicines at home. Some people believe that the effects of traditional Chinese medicine are not as effective as Western medicine. However, the medicinal effects of Chinese medicine are also unique and cannot be achieved by some Western medicines. Therefore, while we understand Chinese medicine, we should also have some Chinese medicines at home.
One: Chenpi
The properties and efficacy: Chenpi has a pungent and bitter taste, warm in nature, and has the effects of regulating qi, harmonizing the middle, dispelling dampness, and resolving phlegm.
Disease prevention and health care: For patients with persistent cough and thin white phlegm, chenpi can be soaked in water and consumed.
Two: Honeysuckle
The properties and efficacy: Honeysuckle has a sweet and cold taste, and has the effects of clearing heat and detoxifying.
Disease prevention and health care: For sore throat, dysentery caused by heat toxins, drinking honeysuckle water as a substitute for tea can be effective within one day. For babies with heat rash, boiling honeysuckle into a thick soup and using a cotton ball to apply the juice to the affected area can show results within one day.
Three: Goji Berries
The properties and efficacy: Goji berries have a sweet and neutral taste, and have the effects of nourishing the kidneys, moistening the lungs, nourishing the liver, and improving eyesight.
Disease prevention and health care: For patients with chronic atrophic gastritis, take an appropriate amount of Ningxia goji berries, wash, dry, crush, and divide them into doses. Take 20 grams per day on an empty stomach in 2 doses. Each course of treatment lasts for 2 months, during which other Chinese and Western medicines should be stopped. For elderly people with dry mouth at night, take 30 grams of goji berries, wash them with water, and chew before bedtime. Generally, it will be effective after 10 days. For male infertility patients, take 15 grams of goji berries, wash them with water, and chew and swallow every night. Each course of treatment lasts for 2 months, during which sexual activity should be restricted as appropriate.
Four: Coix Seed
The properties and efficacy: Coix seed has a sweet and bland taste, slightly cold in nature, and has the effects of promoting diuresis, strengthening the spleen, and clearing heat and pus.
Disease prevention and health care: In seasons or regions with heavy humidity, coix seed can be boiled into soup and consumed. However, coix seed is slightly cold, so people with yang deficiency who are prone to feeling cold should not take it for a long time.
Five: Chicken Gizzard Skin
The properties and efficacy: Chicken gizzard skin has a sweet and neutral taste, and has the effects of invigorating the stomach, promoting digestion, resolving accumulation, promoting urination, and firming and contracting urine.
Disease prevention and health care: When experiencing symptoms such as abdominal distension, dry stool, or infant food accumulation, roast dried chicken gizzard skin, crush it, and boil it with hawthorn to make a drink. Alternatively, grind yam and chicken gizzard skin into fine powder and cook it with glutinous rice to make porridge.
Six: Chrysanthemum
The properties and efficacy: Chrysanthemum has a pungent, sweet, and bitter taste, slightly cold in nature, and has the effects of dispelling wind, clearing heat, detoxifying, and improving eyesight.
Disease prevention and health care: For symptoms such as dizziness, headache, red and swollen eyes caused by colds or excessive liver fire, drinking a cup of chrysanthemum tea can be beneficial.
Seven: Corn Silk
The properties and efficacy: Corn silk has a sweet and neutral taste, and has the effects of promoting diuresis, clearing heat, calming the liver, and promoting bile secretion.
Disease prevention and health care: For patients with chronic nephritis, take 50 grams of dried corn silk, add 600 milliliters of warm water, simmer for 20-30 minutes over low heat, remove the residue, and take the juice once a day or in divided doses. For patients with gum bleeding, take 50 grams of corn silk, put it in a thermos, brew with boiling water, cover and steep for about 10 minutes, divide it into several doses within one day, take one dose per day, and each course of treatment lasts for 7 days. For diabetic patients, take 30 grams of corn silk, decoct it in water, take one dose per day, divide it into two doses in the morning and evening, and it will generally be effective in 2-4 months.
