Chicken Bone Grass, also known as Red Hen Grass and Pig's Waist Grass, is the whole grass of the plant Guangdong Acacia. It is also one of the more common herbs circulating in folklore. After drying the chicken bone grass looks rough and messy, as the roadside withered weeds. However, it is such an inconspicuous chicken bone grass, but it has the magical effect of both medicine and food.

Chicken bone grass is cool, sweet and bitter, into the liver, lung. It has the effect of clearing heat and detoxification, soothing the liver and relieving pain.

1, Curing liver disease

Chicken bone grass belongs to the liver, but also has the effect of soothing the liver, can be used to cure acute and chronic hepatitis, jaundice hepatitis, cirrhosis and other diseases. A number of Chinese herbal medicine books have documented the efficacy of chicken bone grass treatment of liver disease. Lingnan Herb Journal: "Treatment of jaundice: chicken bone grass two taels, red dates seven, eight. Decoction"

2, pain

Chicken bone grass has the effect of detoxification and pain relief, can be used to treat stomach pain, breast pain, bruises and swelling pain and other pain. It can also be used for the healing of insect and snake bites.

3, Clearing heat and eliminating dampness

Summer body dampness is heavy, commonly used chicken bone grass decoction to take to remove the body dampness and heat.

The general taste of herbs are bitter, if you can put herbs into the dish is a good choice. Chicken bone herb is one of the herbs that can be used as an ingredient. Generally, it is used to make soup. It is nutritious and delicious and has some food value.

Chicken Bone Herb in Chicken Soup

Ingredients:

Chicken Bone Herb, half a chicken, salt, water.

Methods:

Soak the chicken bone grass for 1 hour and wash it.

Chicken simply cleaned and cut into small pieces, and then boiled in boiling water to remove the blood foam, and then rinsed in cold water and spare.

Prepare a casserole, put in the chicken and chicken bone grass, add the right amount of water and open fire stew.

When the soup boils, turn down the heat and continue to simmer.

After about 2 hours, the chicken will be tender and the soup will be rich.

Functions: Chicken soup with chicken bones, no strong herbal bitter and strange flavor, drink more can clear heat, especially for summer consumption. In addition, it also has the effect of soothing the liver and dispersing blood stasis, which is suitable for hepatitis patients.