Brief introduction of water spinach
Potamogeton crispus, a panicum miliaceum of Cruciferae, is 30 ~ 40 cm high and stands upright or lies on the ground. The leaves at the lower part of the stem are oval, or pinnately divided, while the leaves at the upper part are less divided or not divided, and the edges have irregular serrations. Flowers small, arranged in racemes, pedicels about 0.5 cm long; Sepals 4, spreading, base equiwidth, back apex brownish; Petals 4, yellow, obovate, with narrow base; 6 stamens, 4 strong; Carpels 2, style 1, stigma undivided. Silique is linear, about 2.5 cm long, with thin and transparent septum, short stalk, no bracteoles and 2 rows of seeds. The seeds are small, numerous, egg-shaped and brown. Flowering from May to September, flowering and fruiting.
Water spinach not only has medicinal value, but also can be used as food. In Hubei, POTAMOGETON crispus is divided into red POTAMOGETON crispus and POTAMOGETON crispus. As a common species, Potamogeton crispus can be eaten.
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The function and function of water spinach
Clearing away heat, diuresis, promoting blood circulation and dredging menstruation. Treat common cold, hot cough, sore throat, measles, jaundice, edema, furuncle, amenorrhea and traumatic injury.
1, "Materia Medica": "Go to the air conditioner, the abdomen is cold for a long time, and the diet is unnecessary, which makes people eat."
2, "Outline": "beneficial to the chest and diaphragm, cold phlegm, heart and abdominal pain."
3, "Classification of Herbs": "Treating knife and axe injuries, ulcers, granulation, chewing."
4, "Lingnan Herb Collection Record": "Take it with raw fish decoction, it can get rid of the heat in the bones."
5, "Guizhou folk prescription medicine collection": "antipyretic diuretic. Treating ascites and stranguria; External use to treat soup fire injury. "
6. "Compilation of Common Folk Herbs": "External treatment of poison; Oral administration promotes qi and blood circulation. Treat women's milk and treat cough and jaundice. "
7. "Guiyang Folk Herbs": "Clearing away heat and toxic materials, relieving cough and resolving phlegm. Externally used to treat lacquer sores, furuncles and carbuncle swelling. "
8. Handbook of Common Chinese Herbal Medicines of Guangzhou Army: "Clearing heat and benefiting water, cooling blood and detoxifying. Treat cold and fever, sore throat and aphonia; Lung heat cough, hemoptysis; Acute rheumatoid arthritis; Edema. "
9. "Fujian Chinese Herbal Medicine": "Dispel wind and penetrate the exterior, regulate qi and stomach."
Medicinal value of water spinach
1, cure: one to two ounces of water spinach, three to five dollars of scallion. Decoct with water. (Fujian Chinese Herbal Medicine)
2, cure hot cough: wild rapeseed one or two five dollars. Decocting water clothes. (Guiyang Folk Herbs)
3, cure dizziness: wild rape (tender) chopped eggs, fried with oil. (Guiyang Folk Herbs)
4, cure stomachache: dry leeks one or two. Decoct with water. (Fujian Chinese Herbal Medicine)
5, the treatment of joint rheumatic pain: two or two fresh leeks. Decoct with water. (Fujian Chinese Herbal Medicine)
6, cure dry blood consumption: use one or two leeks every day, add brown sugar as appropriate. Decoct with water. (Common Chinese Herbal Medicines in Shanghai)
7. Measles can't be cured: fresh water spinach is whole grass, one or two times for one to two years old, and two or two times for two years old or older. Muddle the juice, adjust a little salt and take it with boiling water.
The function of water spinach
1, clearing away lung-heat, resolving phlegm, relieving cough and asthma
POTAMOGETON POTAMOGETON contained in POTAMOGETON POTAMOGETON has the functions of relieving cough, eliminating diseases and relieving asthma, and has certain effect on phlegm-heat cough.
2, sterilization and anti-inflammatory
Potamogeton pair, Staphylococcus aureus. Both Pseudomonas aeruginosa and Escherichia coli have inhibitory effects, which can be used as an auxiliary diet therapy for lung carbuncle, sore, furuncle, cold and so on.
3. Promote gastrointestinal peristalsis
Water spinach has the function of promoting gastrointestinal peristalsis, invigorating stomach and regulating qi, and is often used as an auxiliary diet therapy for abdominal stagnation, poor stool and loss of appetite.
The practice of water spinach
1, stir-fried water spinach
Practice: 250g fresh water spinach, cut into small pieces. First, fry a proper amount of cooking oil, add a little salt and dried red pepper (or pepper), and then add water spinach into fried cooked food.
Pepper and Zanthoxylum bungeanum can warm the stomach and relieve pain, and can be used to stir-fry water spinach to enhance the curative effect. Used for abdominal pain or fullness due to internal cold and loss of appetite.
2, water spinach ginger soup
Practice: 60g water spinach (90g fresh), chopped, ginger 10g. Decoct in water and warm clothes.
Efficacy: This prescription has the effects of warming lung, eliminating phlegm and relieving cough. Used for colds, cold, or cough due to lung cold.
3, water spinach radish juice
Practice: fresh water spinach 60g, fresh radish 10g. Mash and wring the juice, and take it once.
Efficacy: Water spinach with radish wringing juice is preferred to clear lung and eliminate phlegm. Used for cough due to lung heat, yellow and thick phlegm, dry mouth, etc.
4, water spinach corn beard soup
Practice: water spinach 60g, corn stigma 30g. Add water to decoct the soup, and take it 2~3 times or on behalf of tea.
Efficacy: This product can be used together with corn beard, which can promote gallbladder function and diuresis, and can enhance the functions of diuresis, dehumidification and yellowing. Used for damp-heat jaundice and dysuria.
Side effects of water spinach
Toxic rabbits were given 60mg/kg orally every day for *** 10 days, and no toxic reaction was found in ECG and visual inspection.
This product can't be used with Vitex negundo leaves, but it will make people.
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