Carrots, bamboo poles, horseshoes and boiled grass roots should be said to be a kind of health soup that Guangdong folk customs often drink in spring and summer. It has the effects of clearing away blood heat, quenching thirst and diuresis, moistening lung and relieving cough, promoting fluid production to quench thirst, clearing liver and stomach, and can be used for treating various urinary symptoms, eliminating acne rash and recovering residual heat, and treating children's rash fever, cystitis and urethritis.

1. Carrots are both food and medicine. Contemporary pharmacology believes that they contain carotene, which can strengthen the stomach, promote digestion and prevent diseases caused by vitamin D deficiency. Traditional Chinese medicine believes that it is warm and sweet, pungent, enters the lung and spleen meridians, and can relax the middle warmer, regulate qi and disperse gastrointestinal dampness.

2, bamboo cane-is a sweet, it contains a variety of nutrients, a variety of carbohydrates and calcium, phosphorus, iron and so on. Chinese medicine believes that it can clear away heat and promote diuresis, moisten the lungs and detoxify.

3, water chestnut-contains dietary fiber, crude protein, calcium, phosphorus, iron and vitamin C, which can clear away heat and detoxify, promote blood circulation and diuresis, moisten intestines and detoxify, relieve cough and resolve phlegm.

4, hairy root-is a kind of heat-clearing and detoxifying medicine, poria cocos has the effect of moistening dryness, entering the lungs, stomach and small intestine, dispersing blood and activating blood, clearing away heat and detoxifying, and facilitating urination.

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Efficacy of ingredients:

Maogen: Sweet in taste, cold in nature, and effective in cooling blood and nourishing blood, clearing heat and lowering blood pressure.

Bamboo cane: clearing away heat and quenching thirst, separating from medium width and running water. Used for fever, dry mouth, lung dryness, cough and sore throat.

Horseshoe: Horseshoe is a common name for water chestnut, a perennial herb growing in paddy fields, and its edible underground stems are oblate. According to the data, horseshoe is used as medicine, sweet in taste and cold in nature. Clearing away heat, promoting digestion and sobering up. "Compendium of Materia Medica" records that "Horseshoe can clear away heat and quench thirst, treat spleen heat, eliminate dampness and replenish qi, stimulate appetite, clear heart fire and improve eyesight, relieve fever and sterilize, clear jaundice, lower blood pressure and treat many diseases.

Carrot: Known as "Little Ginseng". Carrots are rich in sugar, fat, volatile oil, carotene, vitamin A, vitamin B 1, vitamin B2, anthocyanin, calcium, iron and other nutrients. Traditional Chinese medicine believes that carrots are sweet in taste and flat in nature, and have the effects of invigorating spleen and stomach, nourishing liver and improving eyesight, clearing away heat and toxic materials, strengthening yang and tonifying kidney, penetrating rash, lowering qi and relieving cough.

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