The effects and functions of 藌

If the human body feels stressed, it will get inflamed, and various discomforts will occur when it gets inflamed, such as toothache, inflamed lips, mouth ulcers, etc. It is best to avoid getting inflamed, adjust a good mentality and don't get inflamed at ordinary times. Grassroots ophiopogon is a traditional Chinese medicine that can reduce internal heat, improve eyesight and treat headaches. What are the effects of grassroots ophiopogon? Let’s take a look at it next.

1. What are the effects of grass

It has the effect of clearing heat and improving eyesight, and can treat red, swollen and painful eyes, headaches, etc. Usage and dosage of Prunella Vulgaris: For internal use: decoction, 9-15g, boil into paste or make into pills or powder. For external use: decoct in water for washing or mash for application.

2. What fruits to eat to reduce internal heat

1. Watermelon:

It tastes sweet and is cold in nature. It has the functions of clearing away heat and relieving summer heat, purging fire and relieving restlessness, stimulating appetite, aiding digestion and acting as a diuretic. It is mainly used for summer heat, thirst and difficulty urinating. However, patients with heart failure and edema should not eat too much.

2. Banana:

It helps stabilize blood pressure and has a laxative effect, has the effects of moistening the lungs, promoting fluid production, nourishing yin and eliminating dryness, can treat skin diseases and fight cancer. However, eating it on an empty stomach can have an inhibitory effect on the cardiovascular system, causing symptoms such as numbness, drowsiness and fatigue. People with weak spleen and stomach, stomach pain and diarrhea should eat less. People with excessive stomach acid, poor stomach function, and arthritis and muscle pain should avoid eating it. It has serious side effects on kidney patients, slowing down local blood circulation, causing metabolites to accumulate, causing joint and muscle pain, and aggravating chronic nephritis. Patients with edema symptoms should eat it with caution. Due to its high sugar content, diabetic patients should eat less or no food.

3. Sugarcane:

It tastes sweet and is cold in nature. It has the functions of clearing away heat, promoting body fluid, lowering qi and moistening dryness. It is often used for damage to body fluid caused by febrile diseases, irritability and thirst, nausea and vomiting, dry cough due to lung dryness, and dry and hard stool.

4. Olives:

It tastes sweet, astringent and sour, and is neutral in nature. It has the functions of clearing the lungs, promoting salivation, relieving sore throat and detoxifying. It is mainly used for sore throat, thirst, lung heat cough, hemoptysis, food stagnation, alcohol toxicity and damp heat.

5. Water Chestnuts:

It tastes sweet and is cold in nature. It has the function of clearing heat from the lungs and stomach, resolving phlegm and eliminating accumulation. It can improve eyesight, remove cataracts, treat hemorrhoids, and blood in the stool. It can prevent meningitis and hypertension, and can assist in the treatment of chronic cough and thick sputum.

6. Apple:

It tastes sweet and is cool in nature. It has the effects of promoting body fluid and relieving restlessness, stimulating appetite and harmonizing the spleen, moistening the lungs and pleasing the heart, and astringing the intestines and stopping diarrhea. It can lower cholesterol, prevent arteriosclerosis, and has anti-cancer effects. However, people with myocardial infarction and diabetes should not eat it because it contains a lot of hyaluronic acid, which can easily cause constipation.

7. Pears:

It tastes sweet and is cool in nature, slightly sour. It has the functions of clearing away heat and promoting body fluid, moistening the lungs and resolving phlegm. It is often used for damage to body fluid caused by febrile diseases, thirst, hot cough or dry cough, asthma and aphonia, constipation, etc. However, people with cold stomach, weak spleen and diarrhea should avoid eating it.

8. Orange:

It tastes sweet and is mild in nature. It has the effects of soothing the liver, promoting qi and relieving pain. It is mainly used to relieve stagnant cold in the Jueyin meridian, as well as to treat women's poor milk discharge, redness, swelling, hardness and pain in the breasts, etc.

9. Loquat:

It benefits the lungs, resolves phlegm and relieves cough (hot cough), harmonizes the stomach and lowers qi, and has the effect of cooling, promoting salivation and quenching thirst. People with constipation, sores, and bronchitis should avoid eating it.

10. Persimmon:

It tastes sweet and astringent and is cold in nature. It moistens the lungs and relieves cough, clears away heat, promotes body fluid, resolves phlegm, softens hard masses, strengthens the spleen, astringes the intestines, cures cough, stops bleeding, and is effective for hypertension and hemorrhoidal bleeding. Eating too much will cause persimmon stones.