The origin of its name is related to its shape. The whole plant has no leaves and looks like a small bamboo, so people call it grass saving.
Festival grass is generally wild. Although it is ugly, it is not an ordinary weed, but a kind of herbal medicine with high medicinal value. Many old people usually use it to soak their feet. Reasonable use can treat many diseases. Let's get to know each other.
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What is grass saving?
Casuarina equisetifolia and Casuarina equisetifolia are small and medium-sized plants in Equisetaceae and Equisetifolia. Their rhizomes are erect, horizontal or inclined, dark brown, and their nodes and roots are sparse, yellowish brown, long hair or smooth and hairless.
The aboveground branches are perennial plants, which propagate through rhizomes or spores. Rootstocks germinate in early March and produce sporangium ears in April. When mature, they spread out and germinate, becoming autumn grass. Widely distributed in all parts of China, like water, farmland weeds and Chinese herbal medicines.
Sweet and slightly bitter herbs mainly have the functions of clearing heat, diuresis, improving eyesight, eliminating phlegm and relieving cough. Burning grass and soaking feet is very beneficial for people entering the middle-aged and elderly stage.
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Doctor: Old people can use it to soak their feet or solve "old problems" for many years.
After being used as medicine, Lycopodium can not only clear away heat and toxic materials, but also relieve pain and itching. It is a commonly used medicine in clinical medicine to treat human stubborn psoriasis.
Old people use it to boil water to soak their feet, which is of great benefit to their health and can improve symptoms such as beriberi, tinea pedis and foot odor, with good results.
At the same time, it has certain anti-inflammatory and analgesic effects on swelling and pain caused by traumatic injury, joint swelling and pain caused by rheumatism, limited joint flexion and extension, kidney-yang deficiency, edema of lower limbs and so on. It can also relieve cough, promote blood circulation and strengthen body metabolism.
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What are the functions of saving grass?
-Relieve chronic tracheitis
Grass has the effect of relieving cough and resolving phlegm. Taking it with boiling water with gas can effectively relieve the symptoms of chronic bronchitis and has a good effect on improving expectoration.
However, Sarcandra glabra is generally a compound mixture, which is rarely used alone. In the treatment, besides preparing nodules before noon, you also need five dollars for plantain and horseshoe tendon, and one or two pieces of Huoxue Dan and four dollars for Huang Mao Saxifraga, the effect will be more obvious.
-Treat redness and pain.
As mentioned above, Lycopodium japonicum has the efficacy of clearing away heat and toxic materials, so it is still a good medicine for treating red eyes and swelling pain, and can effectively improve the symptoms of blurred vision of human beings.
First of all, add water to the grass to boil out the liquid medicine, then let the obtained liquid medicine cool and wash the eyes directly, which has a very good effect.
-invigorating qi and blood
Qi and blood are the foundation of human beings, but for various reasons, many people, especially female friends, have long-term deficiency of qi and blood, which will not only lead to pale face and loss of appetite, but also affect the normal operation of various organs and tissues in the body.
If you want to improve the symptoms of qi and blood deficiency, you can take it with water. If you feel bitter, you can add some honey water or medlar to relieve it.
-Treatment of pyelonephritis
The beneficial components contained in Gynostemma pentaphyllum can prevent urinary tract infection and have obvious therapeutic effect on pyelonephritis. Other Chinese herbal medicines, including Huoxue Dan, Dictyophora dictyophora, Hedyotis diffusa, Lily, Plantago, etc., need to be added during the treatment, and the inflammatory problems in the body can be eliminated quickly after taking them.
After reading the article, I believe everyone knows more about the medicinal value of the herb, but everything has two sides. Although it is good to save grass, it must be used reasonably to make it more effective.