6 Chinese medicines that should be kept at home in daily life

There are 6 Chinese medicines that should be kept in your home. When people have minor illnesses, such as colds, diarrhea, headaches, etc., many people will choose to buy some medicine to treat the illness themselves. Therefore, people often prepare some medicine in advance to meet unexpected needs. Commonly available medicines include cold medicine, anti-inflammatory medicine, etc. Here are six Chinese medicinal herbs that every household should have on hand.

Wolfberry: Nighttime dry mouth in the elderly

Properties and effects: Wolfberry is sweet and mild in nature, and has the effects of nourishing the kidneys and lungs, replenishing the liver and improving eyesight.

Disease prevention and health care: If there are patients with chronic atrophic gastritis in the family, you can take an appropriate amount of wolfberry, wash it with clean water, dry it, crush it, and package it. Take 20 grams a day, divided into two times on an empty stomach. One course of treatment is 2 months. Stop taking other Chinese and Western medicines during the medication period; if the elderly at home have nighttime dry mouth, take 30 grams of wolfberry, wash it with clean water, chew it before going to bed, and it will usually be effective after 10 days; for male infertility patients, take 15 grams of wolfberry, wash it with clean water, chew it finely and swallow it every night. Two months is a course of treatment. Abstain from sexual intercourse appropriately during the medication period.

Corn silk: Patients with chronic nephritis

Properties and effects: Corn silk is sweet and mild in nature, and has the effects of 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 ml of warm water, and simmer for 20 to 30 minutes over low heat. When the liquid is boiled to 300 to 400 ml, remove the residue and take the juice, which should be taken once a day or in several doses. For patients with bleeding gums, take 50 grams of corn silk, put it in a thermos, brew it with boiling water, cover it and simmer for about 10 minutes, take it several times a day, 1 dose a day, and 7 days as a course of treatment. For patients with diabetes, take 30 grams of corn silk, decoct it in water, take 1 dose a day, twice a day, morning and evening. It usually takes 2 to 4 months to be effective.

Mugwort: Cold and cough

Properties and effects: Mugwort leaves are bitter and spicy, warm in nature, and have the effects of warming the meridians and stopping bleeding, dispelling cold and relieving pain, removing dampness and relieving itching, and calming the fetus.

Disease prevention and health care: For cough caused by cold, you can use the method of fumigating your feet with mugwort leaves. The specific method is: take an appropriate amount of mugwort leaves, put them into boiling water and boil for 15 minutes, remove the residue and take the juice, pour the liquid medicine into a basin, fumigate first and then wash your feet; when symptoms of boils appear on the skin, take a moxa stick, light one end, and fumigate 3 to 5 cm away from the affected area. During the fumigation process, the moxa stick should be rotated slowly with the boil as the center, and moxibustion until the boil and surrounding skin appear obvious redness and the patient feels slightly hot. Do this once a day for 10 minutes each time; for people who often have stomach pain, take an appropriate amount of mugwort leaves, wash and chop them, beat in eggs and stir evenly, put vegetable oil in the pot, put the mugwort and egg liquid in after the oil is heated, fry until half-cooked, add an appropriate amount of water and boil, when the temperature is suitable, take the residue and water together, 3 times a day.

Raw Rehmannia root: People who often suffer from constipation

Properties and effects: Raw Rehmannia root tastes sweet and bitter, and is cold in nature. It has the effects of clearing heat and cooling blood, nourishing yin and promoting body fluid.

Disease prevention and health care: People who often suffer from constipation may wish to drink a cup of raw Rehmannia honey water. The specific method is: take an appropriate amount of raw Rehmannia, add water and boil for 30 minutes, after the liquid cools down slightly, add 2 spoons of honey and stir evenly. Generally, it will take effect 5 to 10 minutes after drinking.

Yam: Weak spleen and stomach in children

Properties and effects: Yam is sweet and mild in nature, and has the effects of nourishing qi and yin, and tonifying the spleen, lungs and kidneys.

Disease prevention and health care: Children have weak spleen and stomach, often have no good appetite, and suffer from diarrhea from time to time. At this time, letting the children eat more yam will often have unexpected results; yam has certain effects on chronic cough and shortness of breath caused by weak lung qi in the elderly, or low back pain, weak legs, frequent urination at night caused by weak kidney qi; for people who are weak after illness and need long-term care, yam is a high-quality and low-cost tonic. Note: It can be used for making soup or porridge. Because yam has a mild medicinal property, it can be eaten for a long time.

Barley: removes dampness

Properties and effects: Job's tears are sweet and light in taste, slightly cold in nature, and have the effects of promoting diuresis and eliminating dampness, strengthening the spleen, clearing away heat and discharging pus.

Disease prevention and health care: In seasons or areas with heavy humidity, you can make soup with coix seeds. Because coix seed is slightly cold and cool in nature, people with yang deficiency who are usually afraid of cold should not take it for a long time.

Some minor illnesses do not require going to the hospital and can be solved by yourself. Therefore, people should keep some medicine at home.