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These sweet Chinese medicines might as well be kept at home.
The traditional Chinese medicines we usually use are not all bitter, but also sweet. Sweet Chinese medicine can also protect health and treat diseases. Raising these sweet Chinese medicines at home is not only helpful to diet and health, but also helpful to cure diseases. You might as well buy more and put them at home for emergency. The following is the introduction of 15 home essential sweet Chinese medicine, which is worth collecting!

1, corn must cure inflammation.

Corn silk is sweet, light and flat, and enters the liver, kidney and bladder meridian, which has the functions of diuresis, detumescence, calming the liver and benefiting gallbladder. Mainly used for acute and chronic nephritis, edema, acute cholecystitis, corn stigma bile duct stones and hypertension. Modern pharmacological research shows that corn silk contains a lot of potassium nitrate, vitamin K, sitosterol, stigmasterol and a volatile alkaloid. It has diuretic, antihypertensive, hypoglycemic, hemostatic and cholagogic effects. Patients with hyperlipidemia, hypertension and hyperglycemia can reduce blood lipid, blood pressure and blood sugar.

2. Ophiopogon japonicus is used for constipation

Ophiopogon japonicus has the effects of nourishing yin, promoting fluid production, moistening lung and clearing heart-fire, and is often used for dry cough due to lung dryness, cough due to fatigue, thirst due to body fluid injury, insomnia, thirst due to internal heat, and constipation due to intestinal dryness. Constipation is a common disease in life, especially in the elderly. If this happens, you can make your own Ophiopogon japonicus soup. Take 30 grams of Radix Scrophulariae, 24 grams of Radix Rehmanniae and 24 grams of Radix Ophiopogonis, take eight glasses of water, boil three cups, add 60 ml of honey, and take it three times. Zengye decoction can increase gastrointestinal peristalsis, and the effect of moistening intestine is very obvious. Not only that, zengye decoction has a good effect of drying dampness in winter, but diabetic patients should use it with caution.

3. hawthorn pill helps digestion

Because of the dry weather in autumn, if you eat too much, it will inevitably cause indigestion. You can eat some hawthorn pill at this time. The main ingredients of hawthorn pill are hawthorn, malt and medicated leaven. This medicine has a good effect of relaxing bowels and helping digestion, especially for food stagnation in the stomach. At the same time, hawthorn can also be used to stimulate appetite. If you don't digest greasy food, taking one tablet will usually relieve the symptoms in about 20 minutes.

4, medlar cure dry eye.

Lycium barbarum is sweet and flat, and has the effects of tonifying kidney, moistening lung, nourishing liver and improving eyesight. If there are patients with chronic atrophic gastritis at home, take appropriate amount of Lycium barbarum L. from Ningxia, wash it with clear water, dry it, break it and pack it. Take 20g daily and twice on an empty stomach. Two months is 1 course of treatment, and other Chinese and western medicines are stopped during the medication. If the elderly at home are thirsty at night, take 30 grams of medlar, wash it with water and chew it before going to bed. It usually takes effect after 10. Male infertility patients can take Lycium barbarum 1.5g, wash it with clear water, chew and swallow it every night, 1 course of treatment is 2 months, and sexual intercourse should be stopped properly during taking the medicine.

5. Kumquat Zhike Pills

This time is the popular season for colds and coughs. It's hard to avoid a little cough and a little phlegm in my throat, which is really unbearable. Then you can eat kumquat pills at this time. Kumquat pills are mostly called mouse excrement, which tastes sour, sweet and salty. They can relieve cough and resolve phlegm, and they are usually eaten when nothing happens. Kumquat pills are sweet and cool, and have a good cough relieving effect, which is especially suitable for children. Children can eat less, such as drinking three teaspoons each time, six or seven times a day.

As the saying goes, "Good medicine tastes bitter". In the eyes of many people, Chinese medicine is very, very bitter and difficult to drink. Many people refuse Chinese medicine because they are afraid of its bitter taste. These sweet Chinese medicines I recommend to you not only taste good, but also can solve common minor problems in life. You may wish to keep some at home.