The efficacy and effects of fishy grass

Fishy grass leaves lush, bright green color, a strong fishy smell, and it is rich in nutrients, containing protein, fat, vitamin C, calcium, phosphorus, iron and other nutritional elements, can be used as a vegetable to eat, can also be boiled or directly brewed with water as tea, more noteworthy is that the fishy grass also has a very high medicinal value, then the efficacy and effects of fishy grass and consumption methods are what?

Clearing heat and detoxifying

The cold nature of fishy grass drainage, to clear the lung heat is known, often combined with scutellaria, zhebei mother, ZhiMu and other Chinese medicine to treat phlegm and heat cough and asthma and other diseases.

Eliminating carbuncles and draining pus

It can be used externally to treat heat sores and can also be taken internally to treat phlegm-heat congestion of the lung, chest pain, coughing up pus and blood, and other conditions.

Diuretic and laxative

Fishy grass is good at clearing dampness and heat in the bladder, and has the effect of clearing heat and dampness, diuretic and laxative. It is long used in combination with Plantago lanceolata, Bupleurum album, Hesperidinum and other herbs to treat damp-heat diarrhea and dysentery, hot and astringent pain.

Anti-inflammatory and anti-viral

Fishy grass is a natural and safe antibiotic, which helps to clear heat and anti-inflammatory, anti-viral, and its medicinal properties reach the upper, middle and lower jiao of human body, which is very effective for various bacteria and viruses caused by wind-heat cold, pharyngitis, pneumonia and other inflammatory diseases, urinary system infection, reproductive system infection, skin inflammation.

Eliminate carbuncles and drain pus

It can treat phlegm-heat carbuncle and lung, chest pain, coughing up pus and blood, and phlegm-heat cough, and is often used in the treatment of surgical carbuncle and swelling.

Improve the immunity of the body

In the treatment of chronic bronchitis, synthetic fisetin can significantly improve the phagocytosis of white staphylococcus by leukocytes and raise serum preparations, which helps to improve the immunity of the body and is of great significance in the treatment of infectious diseases.

Diuretic

The extract quercetin in fishy grass can dilate capillaries and increase blood flow and urine secretion, while the large amount of potassium contained in it also has an enhanced diuretic effect.

Anti-viral

The fisetin in fisetail herb has certain inhibitory effect on glucococcus aureus, white staphylococcus, dysentery bacillus, Pseudomonas aeruginosa, Bacillus variegatus, Escherichia coli, gram-positive bacillus, and has strong inhibitory effect on staphylococcus. In addition, the volatile matter extracted by ether has good antiviral effect.

The medicinal value of fishy grass

1. Fishy grass and orris root, rutabaga, dongguaren can be eaten together to strengthen the detoxification of heat, swelling, for the treatment of pulmonary carbuncle coughing pus and blood, etc.; with Huangzen, mother of pearl, mulberry bark and other clear lung phlegm cough medicine can help treat lung heat cough, sputum yellow and thick, etc. 2. Fishy grass is used together with honeysuckle, forsythia, ziziphiopogon, etc. to clear heat and detoxify the toxins, and is used to treat heat and sores. 3. Fishy grass is used together with Chestnut, Slippery Rock, Mouton and other diuretic and laxative drugs for the treatment of hot and painful urination. 4. Use the appropriate amount of fresh fishy grass steeped in water for 10 to 12 minutes of future generations of tea, adhere to a course of ten days, stop taking other drugs during the period, help to treat habitual constipation.

How to eat fishy grass

Fishy grass can be eaten raw or cooked, in addition to soaking water to drink, can also be used to serve cold with meals, can effectively enhance appetite, improve digestive function, on the upper respiratory tract infection, lung abscess, urinary tract inflammation, mastitis, cellulitis, otitis media, enteritis, etc.; In addition, fishy grass can also be used to stir-fry food, soup, porridge, stew meat to eat, fishy grass stew meat, can make the broth more delicious and delicious, can Cure cough; fishy grass cooked noodles, has the effect of clearing fire; fishy grass cooked porridge, can cure heat poison; fishy grass dried, supplemented with tea to drink, both to quench thirst, but also has medicinal effects.

Precautions for consumption of fishy grass

Although the nutritional and medicinal value of fishy grass is high, and there are various ways to eat it, it should be noted that it is a cold food and should not be eaten, especially for people with a cold spleen and stomach, and people who are prone to wind and cold are better not to take it.