In fact, in many rural areas, people will use it to make tea. For example, in our hometown, adults will dig some wild herbs such as cogongrass rhizome, dandelion and reed rhizome to make tea together, which has a good effect of clearing away heat and promoting diuresis, promoting fluid production and moistening dryness.
First, cogongrass rhizome can clear away heat, promote fluid production and relieve annoyance.
Cogongrass rhizome is sweet in nature and cold in nature, which not only has a certain effect of nourishing viscera, but also can clear away the internal heat of viscera. Especially for stomach heat pathogen, lalang grass rhizome has the best effect? Clearing stomach heat, promoting fluid production to stop annoyance, and stopping vomiting and disobedience? Effect.
For example, in our life, if heat invades the stomach, causing stomach heat to go up and upset and want to vomit, we can use some cogongrass rhizome to clear stomach heat, stop vomiting and get rid of upset.
I believe many rural friends have had such experiences. Digging some fresh cogongrass rhizome and reed rhizome together to make tea in the wild not only tastes sweet, but also has a certain effect of clearing away heat and nourishing the stomach.
Second, cogongrass rhizome can dispel internal dampness, promote diuresis and reduce swelling.
In fact, cogongrass rhizome is a natural medicine for eliminating dampness. Did the ancients think cogongrass rhizome was used as medicine? Tonglin Lishui? This effect, for ordinary people? Skin edema, damp-heat jaundice, hot shower pain? Symptoms and other water-dampness diseases have a good relief effect.
For example, when the humidity in our body is serious enough to cause skin edema and poor urination, we can directly use cogongrass rhizome to make tea to relieve it. It can also be used in combination with Herba Plantaginis, Prunella vulgaris, Flos Chrysanthemi Indici, etc. The effect of clearing heat and promoting diuresis is better.
For some symptoms of heat stranguria and unfavorable urination, imperata rhizome can be used together with talc, coix seed, medulla tetrapanacis, qu and plantain seed, which can effectively induce diuresis and relieve stranguria.
Third, cogongrass rhizome can clear blood heat, cool blood and stop bleeding.
The rhizome of lalang grass is sweet and cold, and it also has a good effect on eliminating blood-heat evil. In fact, cogongrass rhizome is still a commonly used Chinese medicine. Clearing blood heat, cooling blood and stopping bleeding? This medicine has a good curative effect on some hemorrhagic diseases caused by blood heat.
For example, the common epistaxis caused by excessive internal heat can be taken orally with cogongrass rhizome decoction alone; For hemoptysis due to lung heat, it can be combined with Cortex Mori, Lotus Root Charcoal and Scutellariae Radix. There is also vomiting blood caused by stomach heat. It is also effective to use cogongrass rhizome with Bletilla striata and Sanguisorba charcoal.
In addition, cogongrass rhizome is also effective in combination with other diuretic and stranguria-relieving drugs, such as hematuria caused by some stranguria.