In particular, teachers, salesmen and other people who need to talk often like to soak in water with boat-fruited Sterculia, because boat-fruited Sterculia has the effect of moistening the throat and relieving sore throat, which can protect people's voices. For example, "Materia Medica Justice" says that boat-fruited Sterculia is used as medicine to "spread lung qi, resolve phlegm and clear fur".
Chinese medicine believes that boat-fruited Sterculia is sweet in taste and cold in effect. Soaking it in water has the following main benefits to people's health.
1, boat-fruited Sterculia soaking in water can clear lung heat.
Boat-fruited Sterculia has a strong moistening effect, which can clear lung heat and moisten lung dryness. However, Chinese medicine believes that the lung governs the declaration of descent. If the lung heat is stagnant and the lung is dry and burning, it is easy to cause symptoms such as dry cough, dry cough and yellow phlegm.
Therefore, the use of boat-fruited Sterculia soaking in water in daily life can effectively prevent the evil of dryness and heat in the lungs, and at the same time, it can also play a certain role in clearing away lung heat and phlegm.
2, boat-fruited Sterculia soaking in water can benefit the throat.
Soaking in water can also protect the throat. For example, we often use our voice to cause hoarseness, sore throat, or even aphonia, or throat discomfort caused by chronic cough, which can be relieved by soaking in water with boat-fruited Sterculia.
Therefore, when the throat is used excessively, or when the pathogenic fire in the body hurts the throat, soaking the boat-fruited Sterculia in water can play a role in moistening the throat and relieving sore throat.
3, boat-fruited Sterculia soaking in water can moisten the intestines.
The sweetness of boat-fruited Sterculia can not only clear lung and throat, but also moisten intestines and relieve constipation.
Soaking in water with boat-fruited Sterculia is also effective to relieve serious heat evil in the body, damage body fluids, and make people's intestines dry and dry, accompanied by poor stool. Only boat-fruited Sterculia is weak in this respect, and it is generally effective for mild intestinal dryness constipation.
Although boat-fruited Sterculia has good medicinal value, we should not spend too much time using it. Generally, we can drink 1-3 tablets of water at a time.