Horseshoe is a better traditional Chinese medicine, there are clearing heat to quench thirst, diuresis, phlegm, lowering blood pressure, mostly used for fever, injury to the fluid thirst, sore throat, stomatitis, urinary incontinence, measles, lung fever cough and other diseases.
Characteristics of horseshoe
The characteristics of horseshoe is that its tuber is broad obovate, biconvex, not constricted at the tip, with a neck and into a collar-like ring, the color is generally brown, while the surface is relatively smooth.
The efficacy and role of horseshoes
1, laxative: it contains crude protein, starch, can promote peristalsis, clinically used in the treatment of heat caused by food accumulation plumping and fecal dryness, etc., horseshoes decoction can be diuretic discharge of gonorrhea, urinary tract infections patients with dietary therapy good products.
2, clearing the lungs and phlegm: horseshoes are sweet and cold, can clear the lungs and heat, and it contains mucus, have the effect of generating fluids and moisturizing the lungs and phlegm, can clear phlegm and heat, the treatment of lung-heat cough, coughing and vomiting of yellow viscous phlegm and other diseases.
3, dry throat pain: horseshoe fresh eating can be treated tongue red, dry throat pain, drunkenness and lethargy, etc., and made of horseshoe powder, you can clear the throat phlegm, throat, vocal cords with a health effect.
Horseshoe contraindication
1, spleen and stomach cold crowd: horseshoe cold, eating horseshoe will increase the body's cold gas, spleen and stomach cold crowd such as a large number of eating horseshoe will increase the digestive burden of the spleen and stomach, and even cause discomfort, aggravation of spleen and stomach cold symptoms.
2, the hoof allergy crowd: The hoof allergy is rare, but it does not exclude this situation, for the hoof allergy crowd, it is best not to consume the hoof, so as to avoid the phenomenon of allergy.