In daily life, perilla leaf is a common plant, which can be eaten cold, fried or stewed. In some places, it is eaten with meat, but most people still don't know its efficacy. So what is the efficacy and function of perilla leaf?

Efficacy and function of perilla leaves

1.

Dispelling exterior cold: Perilla leaves can disperse exterior cold and have strong sweating ability. Can be used for treating common cold, fever, aversion to cold, headache, stuffy nose, cough or chest distress. Usually, perilla leaf can be decocted in water, or it can be used with honeysuckle and forsythia. You can eat perilla leaves properly without symptoms.

2. Promoting qi and preventing miscarriage: Perilla frutescens, a Chinese medicine, can also prevent miscarriage, and is often used with Amomum villosum and Pericarpium Citri Tangerinae to treat poor pregnancy and fetal movement.

3. Lose weight and lose weight: Perilla cotyledons can make people feel full and help to lose weight. After eating, it can stimulate gastrointestinal tract and prevent constipation, hemorrhoids and other diseases.

4. Eliminating phlegm and relieving cough: It has a good moisturizing and physiotherapy effect on the throat, which is conducive to the cure of local inflammation and can relieve local itching, thus blocking cough reflex and helping to relieve cough and phlegm.

5. Treatment of traumatic injury: Folium Perillae has the effect of treating traumatic injury. When the epidermis of the affected area is damaged or the skin is not damaged, and the subcutaneous congestion and swelling are painful, perilla leaves can be pounded and applied to the affected area, and the wound will heal naturally.

taboo

1. You can't eat with carp, or you will get toxic sores.

2. Patients with qi deficiency, yin deficiency and febrile diseases should not take perilla leaf, otherwise it will cause a variety of physical discomfort, which is not good for the body.

Note: Perilla cotyledon is not Perilla frutescens. They are different, but they can all be used as medicine.