White grass root is an edible grass that is mainly distributed in the northeastern region of my country. Follow me below to take a look at the efficacy and functions of white grass root.

Efficacy and effects of white grass root

1. The taste of white grass root is sweet and can be fed to cattle and sheep, and people can also eat it directly. White grass root can treat internal heat and has the effect of clearing away heat and detoxifying. It is a common herbal tea made by boiling the roots of white grass in water. It tastes sweet and is not cold.

2. White grass root can clear away heat and diuresis. White grass root has the effect of cooling blood and stopping bleeding. White grass roots can treat diseases such as hot stranguria and hematuria. White grass root can treat lung-heat cough and epistaxis, and has certain effects on stomach heat and polydipsia.

3. White grass root can clear away heat and cool blood, nourish yin and clear away heat.

4. The taste of white grass root is sweet and a little cold, but it will not affect the human body. White grass root enters the four meridians of lung, stomach, liver and bladder.

How to take white grass root

1. White grass root can be eaten directly. Eating white grass root directly has a certain effect of clearing away heat, detoxifying and eliminating heat, and it also makes you feel full.

2. White grass root can be decoctioned in water or decoction and taken orally. Generally, it takes about 9g. It can be decoctioned in water and taken orally with some Chinese medicinal materials.

Contraindications of eating white grass root

Although white grass root is a Chinese herbal medicine that can be eaten directly, it is harmless to the human body. However, most of the white grass roots are now sprayed with pesticides. Do not eat the white grass roots directly directly as it can easily cause pesticide poisoning. In addition, after all, white grass root still has a little cooling component, which can be eaten, but it cannot be eaten in excess, as things will be reversed when they are extreme. Pregnant women and women on menstruation are best not to eat white grass roots. It is definitely not suitable for pregnant women and menstruating women to eat white grass roots, because white grass roots have cooling blood and diuretic effects, which are not suitable for these two people.

Characteristics of white grass root

Character identification: It is cylindrical, with some branches and different lengths. 30-60cm long, 0.2-0.4cm in diameter. The surface is yellow-white or light yellow, slightly shiny, with longitudinal wrinkles, obvious nodes, slightly protruding, and occasionally fibrous roots remaining. The length of the nodes varies, 1.5-3cm. The texture is hard, with a white pith in the center of the cross section, and the skin and middle column are not easy to peel off. Odorless, light taste.

Microscopic identification: Cross section of rhizome: The epidermis is composed of a row of small square cells, and some cells contain small siliceous pieces. The cortex is narrow, scattered with several limited tough and small leaf-trace vascular bundles, surrounded by fibers. The inner walls of the endothelial cells are extremely thick, and some have small silica masses. The pericycle is composed of 1-2 layers of thick-walled cells. There are many limited outer tough vascular bundles scattered in the pericycle, surrounded by vascular bundle sheath fibers. The center of the pericycle is often hollow.