White lemongrass root likes sunny environment, mainly grows in sunny roadside hayland or mountain slopes, and is widely distributed in China, mainly in northeast, north, east, south central, southwest and Shaanxi, Gansu and other places.
What C. alba Root Looks Like
C. alba Root is slender, ranging from 30 centimeters to 60 centimeters in length, 1.5 millimeters in diameter, cylindrical, and sometimes branched. It is creamy or yellowish-white in color, with light brownish-yellow, slightly elevated nodes, spaced about 3 cm apart, not easily broken, fibrous in section, yellowish-white in the center, and with a pore.
White lemongrass root efficacy and effect
White lemongrass root is a very common plant, but has a cool blood to stop bleeding, clearing heat and diuretic effect. It is hollow with knots and has diuretic effect, commonly used in the treatment of blood in urine, frequent urination, urinary urgency, urinary pain, etc., purpura nephritis is also commonly used. Fire, swollen mouth and tongue pain, may wish to use leucaena sativa boiled water, through the heat diuretic and the "fire" from the urine out of the body.
How to eat lemongrass root
1, lemongrass root boiled water: this is a kind of old wide often drink sugar water, taste great, especially in the summer of the herbal tea store, lemongrass root water must be one of the signature drinks, ready to bamboo cane, horseshoes, carrots, peeled and cut into pieces, lemongrass root washed and cut into small, all put into the soup pot, add the right amount of water, cook 1 hour. It can be boiled for 1 hour.
2, lemongrass root lean meat soup: lean meat cut into pieces, blanch in cold water to remove blood, drain water, lemongrass root cleaned and cut into sections for spare parts, lemongrass root, lean meat, ginger in a pot, add the right amount of water, large fire boiled to a small fire boiled for 1 hour, add the right amount of salt to taste can be consumed.