Anti-inflammatory, cough relieving, digestion promoting, detoxification and cancer prevention. Root vegetables, cruciferous radish plants. It has been planted for thousands of years and is widely used in the fields of diet and traditional Chinese medicine dietotherapy.

reed rhizome

The rhizome of reed is the fresh or dry rhizome of monocotyledonous reed; Clearing away heat, promoting fluid production, relieving vexation, stopping vomiting and inducing diuresis; Can be used for treating fever, polydipsia, vomiting due to stomach heat, cough due to lung heat, lung abscess, purulent discharge, heat stranguria, and astringent pain.

couchgrass root

The correct name of "cogongrass rhizome" is "cogongrass rhizome", which is the rhizome of grass plant cogongrass rhizome. Efficacy of cooling blood and stopping bleeding, clearing heat and promoting fluid production, diuresis and stranguria; Indications: bleeding due to blood heat, fever and polydipsia, vomiting due to stomach heat, asthma and cough due to lung heat, dysuria, edema and jaundice. These two herbs come from different sources and are two varieties with similar effects.

Reed is a medicine for clearing away heat and purging fire. It is the general name of fresh or dry rhizome of monocotyledonous reed. Its nature is dry and cold, and it has the effects of clearing away heat, promoting fluid production, relieving vexation, stopping vomiting and diuresis. It can be used for treating fever, polydipsia, vomiting due to stomach heat, cough due to lung heat, lung abscess and purulent discharge, and heat stranguria.

Phragmites communis is compatible with mulberry leaves, chrysanthemum, platycodon grandiflorum and other drugs, which has the effect of treating wind-heat cough. It is compatible with Cortex Mori, Scutellariae Radix, Fritillaria, etc., and has the effects of clearing away heat, resolving phlegm and relieving cough for lung heat, cough, thick phlegm, lung abscess and cough purulent discharge. According to the synopsis of the golden chamber, reed can cure five choking, qi stagnation in the heart diaphragm, boredom and vomiting, and inability to eat. How to eat it is to take five taels of reed root, file it into ashes, boil it into two bowls with three bowls of water, and take it when the medicine juice is warm. Hunan Medical Records also records that reeds treat pertussis.

How to eat: Take 30g reed, 6g Selaginella, 6g butterfly and 7.5g cowhide jelly, and decoct them in water.

Reed root can also cure gum bleeding, as long as we usually boil reed root in water and drink tea. Quanzhou Materia Medica records that reed roots can also cure sore throat, as long as fresh reed roots are mashed to get juice and mixed with honey.

Reed root taboo

Because reed root is a cold medicine, it has the effect of clearing away heat and relieving cough, but it should be remembered that people with spleen and stomach deficiency and cold are forbidden to take reed root, and people without spleen and stomach deficiency and cold should not take it with croton.