For most people at this stage, it is common to have some emergency essential medicines at home. Some people believe that the effect of traditional Chinese medicine is not as effective as Western medicine. In fact, the efficacy of traditional Chinese medicine is also something that some Western medicines cannot achieve. Therefore, while we have a clear understanding of traditional Chinese medicine, we should also have some traditional Chinese medicine at home.
1. Chenpi
Properties and effects: Chenpi has a spicy and bitter taste, warm nature, and has the effects of regulating qi, harmonizing the middle, dispelling dampness, and resolving phlegm.
Prevention and health care: For patients with persistent cough and thin white phlegm, chenpi can be soaked in water and drunk.
2. Honeysuckle
Properties and effects: Honeysuckle has a sweet and cold taste, and has the effect of clearing heat and detoxifying.
Prevention and health care: For symptoms such as sore throat, dysentery caused by heat toxins, drinking honeysuckle tea brewed in water can take effect after one day; if a baby has heat rash, boiling honeysuckle into a thick soup and using a cotton ball to gently rub the affected area repeatedly will show results after one day.
3. Goji Berries
Properties and effects: 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.
Prevention and health care: For patients with chronic atrophic gastritis, take an appropriate amount of Ningxia goji berries, wash them with clean water, dry them, crush them, and divide them into portions. Take 20 grams every day, divided into two doses on an empty stomach. Two months is one course of treatment, and other Chinese and Western medicines should be discontinued during the medication.
For elderly people with dry mouth at night, take 30 grams of goji berries, rinse them with clean water, and chew them before bed. Generally, it will take effect after 10 days. For male infertility patients, take 15 grams of goji berries, rinse them with clean water, chew them finely, and swallow them every night. Two months is one course of treatment, and appropriate abstinence from sexual activity is recommended during the medication.
4. Coix Seed
Properties and effects: Coix seed has a sweet and bland taste, slightly cold nature, and has the effects of diuresis, spleen-tonifying, clearing heat, and promoting suppuration.
Prevention and health care: In seasons or areas with heavy humidity, coix seed can be boiled into soup and drunk. However, coix seed is slightly cold, so it is not suitable for long-term use by people with yang deficiency who are afraid of cold.
5. Rooster Inner Gold
Properties and effects: Rooster inner gold has a sweet and neutral taste, and has the effects of invigorating the stomach, promoting digestion, dissolving accumulations, promoting urination, etc.
Prevention and health care: When there are symptoms such as abdominal distension, dry stools, or childhood food stagnation, dry roasted rooster inner gold can be crushed and brewed with hawthorn to make a drink, or yam and rooster inner gold can be ground into fine powder and cooked with glutinous rice porridge.
6. Chrysanthemum
Properties and effects: Chrysanthemum has a spicy, sweet, and bitter taste, slightly cold nature, and has the effects of dispelling wind, clearing heat, detoxifying, and improving eyesight.
Prevention and health care: For symptoms caused by wind-heat colds or excessive liver fire, such as dizziness, headache, red and swollen eyes, drinking a cup of chrysanthemum tea can help.
7. Corn Silk
Properties and effects: Corn silk has a sweet and neutral taste, and has the effects of diuresis, clearing heat, calming the liver, and promoting bile secretion.
Prevention and health care: For patients with chronic nephritis, take 50 grams of dried corn silk, add 600 milliliters of warm water, simmer over low heat for 20-30 minutes, when the liquid is reduced to 300-400 milliliters, remove the residue and take the juice once a day or divide it into multiple doses. For patients with gum bleeding, take 50 grams of corn silk, put it in a thermos bottle, brew it with boiling water, cover it and let it steep for about 10 minutes, divide it into several doses within a day, one dose per day, and 7 days is one course of treatment. For patients with diabetes, 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 generally takes 2-4 months to take effect.
