Houttuynia cordata is pungent and cold, belonging to lung meridian. It has effects in removing toxic materials, relieving swelling, treating sores, promoting diuresis, removing dampness and clearing heat, stopping dysentery, invigorating stomach, promoting digestion, and resolving food stagnation; and can be used for treating spleen and stomach heat accumulation caused by lung abscess, sore swelling, hemorrhoid, hematochezia, excess heat, heat toxin, dampness pathogen and disease heat. Modern pharmacological experiments show that this product has antibacterial, antitoxic, immune enhancing and diuretic effects.
Function of Houttuynia cordata Thunb
1, anti-inflammatory
Houttuynia cordata Thunb can be boiled in soup instead of tea, which can relieve all kinds of inflammation. Houttuynia cordata Thunb It can diminish inflammation and completely eliminate damp heat in the body.
2, clearing lung heat, detoxifying tobacco poison
Soaking dried houttuynia cordata with water can reduce the harm of smoking to you and prevent tracheitis and even lung cancer. Houttuynia cordata also wants to help quit smoking. People who want to quit smoking will feel less inclined to smoke if they drink some strong Houttuynia cordata tea every day.
3, can reduce fever and relieve cough
Wind-heat cold and flu are typical symptoms of fever and sore throat, and even cause pneumonia and edema. At the beginning of wind-heat cold, drinking some Houttuynia cordata water immediately to diminish inflammation can play a role in reducing fever.
4, cold sequelae
Some people have a cold for a long time, and the reason why they don't recover for a long time is that the humidity is heavy and food is accumulated in their stomachs. Over time, the moisture became damp and hot again. At this time, boiling water with houttuynia cordata can completely remove the damp-heat and cold sequelae in the body.
How to eat houttuynia cordata
1, houttuynia cordata tea
The easiest way is to drink Houttuynia cordata soup instead of tea. But houttuynia cordata can't be cooked for a long time, otherwise the anti-inflammatory components in houttuynia cordata will evaporate. Don't pour houttuynia cordata. You can add water when you drink it next time. Turn off the fire after boiling for two minutes. It can be cooked three times in all, just enough for one day.
2, Houttuynia scrambled eggs
Houttuynia cordata scrambled eggs can clear away heat and toxic materials, nourish yin and moisten the lungs. Stir-fry the eggs and houttuynia cordata together, add appropriate amount of water, stir-fry until the eggs are cooked and tasty, add monosodium glutamate and a little refined salt, and serve.
3. Houttuynia cordata and Sydney water
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4. Fried shredded pork with Houttuynia cordata Thunb
Fried shredded pork with fresh houttuynia cordata; Parching fresh Houttuynia cordata with salt and starch into shredded pork; Put oil in the hot pot; Stir-fry shredded pork until fragrant; Parching Herba Houttuyniae until cooked; Add a little water; Adding salt and chicken powder; Serve. Has the effects of diminishing inflammation, detoxicating, nourishing yin and moistening lung.
Houttuynia cordata Thunb, clearing away heat and toxic materials, diuresis and detumescence. Here are some remedies for Houttuynia cordata. For your reference.
Prescription of Houttuynia cordata Thunb.
1, dysentery: 20 grams of houttuynia cordata, 6 grams of hawthorn charcoal, decoction, honey.
2. Decoct 20g of Rabdosia rubescens and Houttuynia cordata 16g in water, or grind the above medicines into fine powder, concentrate the decoction filtrate, mix with the fine powder, and tablet, 0.3g each, 3-4 tablets each time, 3 times a day, and reduce the dosage for children as appropriate.
3, mumps: fresh Houttuynia cordata proper amount, mashed and applied to the affected area, wrapped with tape and fixed, twice a day.
4, lung abscess: Houttuynia cordata 30 grams, Platycodon grandiflorum 15 grams, decoction or grinding. You can also wash fresh grass and fry it, or take it with 50 grams of Houttuynia cordata, 0/2 grams of Platycodon grandiflorum/kloc-and 6 grams of Glycyrrhiza uralensis.
5. Acute icteric hepatitis: fresh Houttuynia cordata 1 80g, sugar 30g, decoction, daily1dose, 5 ~1dose.
6. Habitual constipation: Houttuynia cordata 5 ~ 10g. Soak in boiling water 10 ~ 12 minutes for future generations to drink tea. During the treatment, other drugs were stopped, and 10 day was a course of treatment.
7,: Frequent micturition pain: Take 50 grams of fresh grass or 30 grams of dry products and decoct them.
Houttuynia herb folk prescription. Recommend it to you.
8, acute bronchitis, tuberculosis, hemoptysis: 30 grams of Houttuynia cordata, 6 grams of licorice, 30 grams of plantain, decoction.
9, skin disease: coated with fresh mashed juice, or decocted juice orally, has the effect of clearing away heat and swelling, eliminating malnutrition and relieving itching. Treatment of pemphigus and tinea pedis by external washing with whole herb decoction.
10, carbuncle swelling and furuncle swelling (whether damaged or not): wrap fresh houttuynia cordata with wet paper, simmer with grey fire, take it out and mash it, and apply it to the affected area.
1 1, endocarditis, cervicitis, adnexitis, leucorrhea with reddish discharge and minor abdominal pain: 30g of houttuynia cordata, 30g of dandelion and 30g of honeysuckle, decocted in water.
12, snake bite: Take 62.5g of Houttuynia cordata Thunb, 31.25g of Rhus sumac Root, 0/5.6g of Astragalus membranaceus Leaf Root and 31.5g of Euonymus japonicus, and take it with decoction for snake bite.
13, hemorrhoid treatment: Wash Houttuynia cordata (the dosage depends on the size of the pot, there is no specific requirement, but the more the better). Put it in a pot and boil it with water, then put the water and houttuynia cordata in a spittoon and sit directly on it for steaming. When the water is cold, wash it with water to get hemorrhoids. The effect is good, and it is not easy to relapse after long-term use.
In addition, Houttuynia cordata contains aristolochic lactam, which will cause irreversible damage to the kidney and lead to upper urinary tract epithelial cancer, so it is not suitable for long-term consumption!