Houttuynia cordata Thunb.
Ingredients: pear 200g, houttuynia cordata 100g (fresh 250g), and appropriate amount of rock sugar.
How to make and eat: Wash the raw pear, remove the core and cut into pieces. Boil Herba Houttuyniae with 600ml of water, then decoct with slow fire for 20 minutes, discard the residues, add pears and rock sugar, and stew with slow fire until the pears are rotten, and take it twice a day. Take it for five days.
Functions: dispersing lung qi, dispersing stagnation, clearing away heat and toxic materials, relieving cough and resolving phlegm, nourishing yin and reducing fire, moistening lung and removing dryness, all of which are effective for all syndromes of excess heat in lung and stomach.
Houttuynia cordata and mung bean soup:
Ingredients: fresh houttuynia cordata 100g, mung bean 50g, pork belly 200g, ginger onion and salt.
How to make and eat: Wash Houttuynia cordata and mung bean, wash pork belly and cut into 2cm square pieces. First, put the pork tripe and mung bean into a stew pot, add about 800ml of water, put it on strong fire and boil it, then cook it with slow fire 1 hour. Add houttuynia cordata, ginger, onion and salt, and cook for 10 minute. Daily 1 time, 3 times a week.
Functions: clearing away heat and toxic materials, nourishing spleen and stomach, promoting diuresis and reducing swelling. It has adjuvant therapeutic effect on patients with chronic consumptive diseases such as chronic nephritis, chronic hepatitis, emphysema and pulmonary heart disease.
Steamed pig large intestine with houttuynia cordata;
Ingredients: fresh houttuynia cordata 150g (50g dry product), 200g pig intestine.
How to make and eat: Wash the pig's large intestine with salt, remove the attachments on the inner wall, rub it with a little sesame oil (to remove the smell of shame), then clean it, then put the washed Houttuynia cordata into the large intestine, tie the two ends with thread, put it in a pot, add a little salt and steam it in water. 1-2 days 1 time, five times in a row.
Function: clearing away heat and toxic materials, moistening intestines and relaxing bowels. It is suitable for constipation due to intestinal dryness and abdominal pain due to heat.
The edible methods of Houttuynia cordata Thunb. are introduced to you. Houttuynia cordata Thunb. is a Chinese herbal medicine, which can clear away heat and toxic materials, and can also clean up intestinal garbage, which has a certain effect on preventing constipation. Houttuynia cordata Thunb. can be used for making soup, making tea and stewing vegetables. You can try it and it has a good health preserving effect.