# Everyone pays attention to kidney health # The weather is hot in summer. Many people may have less urine, astringent pain, dark yellow color and even hematuria because of the hot weather, excessive sweating and insufficient water supply after exercise. In severe cases, it will damage our kidney cells. We all know that the kidney is an important metabolic organ of the human body. More than 90% of sodium and potassium salts in the human body need kidney transport and metabolism, and the damage of kidney cells is irreversible. Acute and chronic nephritis caused by bad living habits, Improper treatment may even require lifelong medication, which may eventually lead to renal failure and require hemodialysis treatment. Today, the small class of Chinese medicine will take you to learn about the blind Chinese medicine: cogongrass rhizome, which is a very good Chinese medicine and a homologous medicine and food, and has a certain therapeutic effect on acute and chronic nephritis.

Cogongrass rhizome, also known as cogongrass rhizome, cogongrass rhizome, hairy root, sweet root, hairy root, cogongrass rhizome and sweet root, is sweet in taste and cold in nature. Enter lung meridian, stomach meridian and bladder meridian. It has the effects of cooling blood, stopping bleeding, clearing away heat and promoting fluid production, and inducing diuresis to treat stranguria. It is commonly used in traditional Chinese medicine to treat hematemesis, epistaxis and hematuria caused by blood heat, as well as symptoms such as fever, polydipsia, jaundice, edema, and stranguria. Rhizoma Imperatae tastes sweet and cold, is good at clearing away heat and promoting diuresis, and can clear away heat accumulated in the lung and stomach. In modern clinic, it is often used for syndromes such as fever, polydipsia, vomiting due to stomach heat and cough due to lung heat.

Modern research shows that Rhizoma Imperatae contains triterpenes such as arundin, imperatorin, fernenol, heterodendroterpene alcohol and sago rhododendron alcohol, and also contains soluble calcium, glucose, sucrose, a small amount of fructose and xylose, potassium salt, carotene, chlorophyll, anemonin, palmitic acid and other nutrients. Its decoction can improve the positive-negative conversion rate of hepatitis B surface antigen, has certain anti-hepatitis effect and can improve the cure rate of hepatitis B patients. Cogongrass rhizome is rich in soluble calcium, which can shorten the time of plasma recalcification. It can also enhance the phagocytosis of macrophages in vivo, improve immunity, inhibit Shigella dysenteriae, and has antibacterial effect. Imperata rhizome contains potassium salt, which has diuretic effect, and has a good therapeutic effect on oliguria, hematuria and edema in acute and chronic nephritis. Its pulp juice also contains a lot of polysaccharides, which can regulate and control blood sugar and blood lipid levels, reduce the three highs of human body, and is very suitable for patients with cardiovascular diseases. In addition, cogongrass rhizome can also promote blood coagulation, replenish body fluids, produce sperm to quench thirst, diminish inflammation and relieve pain, and has the effects of lowering adverse reactions and stopping vomiting, and also has a certain therapeutic effect on sore throat. It contains special compounds, which can also inhibit metabolism, delay exercise and have sedative effect.

Let's share with you a few dietary remedies about imperata rhizome:

1, cogongrass ribs soup: 250g of ribs, 60g of cogongrass rhizome, 50g of carrots, 50g of yam, 0/00g of corn100g of salt. Wash the ribs and cut them into pieces, put them in a pot, add water to boil, remove the blood foam, take them out and wash them for later use, wash and cut the cogongrass rhizome, wash the carrots, yam and corn and cut them into pieces, put them into the pot together, add water 1500ml, boil them with strong fire for one and a half hours, add salt to taste, eat meat and drink soup, so as to clear away heat and promote fluid production.

2. cogongrass rhizome porridge: 200g of fresh cogongrass rhizome or 60g of dried cogongrass rhizome, 30g of carrot, 50g of yam and 250g of japonica rice. First, the carrot and yam are washed and cut into pieces for later use, then the cogongrass rhizome is washed and cut into pieces, put into a pot, add a proper amount of water 1200ml, decoct for half an hour, remove the residues, and then add the washed japonica rice, carrot and yam. Take 1-2 times a day for 1 week, which can clear away heat and toxic materials, promote diuresis and reduce swelling.

3, cogongrass rhizome syrup: water chestnut 100g, cogongrass rhizome 50g, sugar cane 20g, carrot 50g. Wash and cut the above ingredients, put them into a pot, add water 1500ml, and decoct them in water once in the morning and once in the evening for 7 days, which can clear away heat, cool blood and relieve cough.

Imperata rhizome is a very common food in our daily life, and it is also a kind of medicine and food with the same origin. It is rich in nutrition, widely used in medicine and easy to make into dishes. It is worth noting, however, that Rhizoma Imperatae is cold, which is easy to damage spleen yang and spleen and stomach deficiency. Patients with diarrhea and loose stool should not take it, and those with no fever in blood should avoid taking it. Because Rhizoma Imperatae is rich in potassium salt, long-term consumption will increase the excretion burden of the kidney, make the kidney work for a long time, weaken the kidney function and even damage the kidney cells. Therefore, patients with acute and chronic nephritis should take Rhizoma Imperatae correctly under the guidance of doctors to avoid eating it by mistake. That's all for today's Chinese medicine class. I hope you can enjoy it [come and see me].