Anti-inflammatory cough, promote digestion, detoxification and anti-cancer. Root vegetables, cruciferous radish plants. It has been cultivated for thousands of years, and is widely used in both dietary and Chinese medicine therapeutic fields.
Rutabaga
Rutabaga is the fresh or dried rhizome of the monocotyledonous plant Reed, family Gramineae; efficacy of clearing heat and generating fluids, removing vexation, stopping vomiting and diuretic; used for fever and thirst, gastric fever and vomiting, coughing in lung heat, vomiting pus from carbuncle, and feverish drenching and astringent pain.
Maoguan
Maoguan is the rhizome of the plant Cynomorium leucocephala of the family Gramineae; it is used to cool the blood and stop bleeding, clear away heat and promote the production of fluids, and promote diuresis; it is also used for treating hemorrhagic fever and bleeding, fever and thirst, vomiting and vomiting of gastric heat, coughing and lung heat, dysuria and astringent pain, edema, and other diseases. It is also used to treat blood-heat hemorrhage, fever and thirst, stomach-heat and vomiting, lung-heat and cough, urination and astringent pain, edema and jaundice. The source of the two medicines is not the same, is two varieties, the efficacy is similar.
Root belongs to the clearing of heat and fire medicine, is a monocotyledonous plant grass family reed fresh or dry rhizome of the general term, dry and cold in nature, there is a clearing of heat, to produce fluids, in addition to annoyance, vomiting, diuretic effect. It is effective in removing heat and thirst, vomiting and retching with stomach heat, coughing with lung heat, vomiting pus with lung carbuncle, and astringent pain with hot shower.
Rhizoma rehmanniae in combination with mulberry leaves, chrysanthemum, platycodon, etc., has the effect of curing wind-heat cough. With Sang Bai Pi, Scutellaria baicalensis, Bei Mu and other medicines, for lung heat, cough, phlegm thick and lung carbuncle, coughing up pus and blood and other diseases have the efficacy of clearing away heat, resolving phlegm, cough. Jin Gui Yu Huan Fang" recorded that rehmannia cure five choking, heart and diaphragm gas stagnation, boredom and vomiting, not down to eat, the consumption method is to take rehmannia five taels, filed into ash, boiled in three bowls of water into two bowls, remove the dregs, do not time, to be taken when the juice is warm and hot. Hunan Drug Journal" also recorded, rehmannia cure whooping cough.
Eating method: take 30g of reed root, 6g of curly cypress, 6g of wood butterfly, 7.5g of cowhide jelly, and decoct with water.
Rutabaga can also cure bleeding gums, as long as we usually will be boiled in water, when the tea drinking effect can be achieved. Quanzhou Materia Medica" records, rehmannia can also cure sore throat, as long as the fresh rehmannia mashed juice, mixed with honey can be served.
Contraindications of rehmannia
Because rehmannia is a cold medicine, it is effective in removing heat and relieving cough, but remember that rehmannia is forbidden to those who have a weak stomach and spleen, and those who do not have a weak stomach and spleen should not take it with croton.