Northeastern people usually do not recognize the fishweed, which can be understood, after all, in the northern region almost can not see the shadow of fishweed. And for northerners, the vast majority of people know fishweed very well. Fishweed, also known as folded earwort, side ear root, rake ear, cengzhao, stinky grass, Houttuynia cordata and so on.

In the rural areas of Jiangsu Province, the roadside, ditch side, small rivers, small streams, wet and cold under the mountain forests, usually there are crawling densely packed with wild plants Fishy Grass, overlapping green leaf drama will give a white flower spikes, and also releases a distinctive odor. Because the fishy grass is highly popular in the sales market, the market sales market is good, so many villages in the southern region are planted on a large scale fishy grass.

Fishy grass is a kind of food and medicine with dual-use ingredients, often used by others in coleslaw, pickles, or is used to fry bacon, some people will also fish fishy grass washed and dried after drinking water. Drinking water with sun-dried fishweed is a health care method that many health care people are very favorite, not only the actual operation is relatively simple, as long as the hot water can be brewed instead of tea, and did not let a lot of people feel pungent strong smell.

The question is, what will happen to the body if you drink water with fishweed?

Because fishy grass is a kind of Chinese herbal medicine, so it has certain effects and functions. Chinese medicine feels that drinking water with fishweed can have the effect of clearing heat and removing fire, favoring urination and eliminating dampness, eliminating pain and swelling of the legs, strengthening the spleen and nourishing the stomach, and other health care effects.

Contemporary scientific research has shown that fishweed with quercetin and other chlorogenic acids, with fishweed in water to drink, both can inhibit Kata gram-negative bacillus, Streptococcus pneumoniae, influenza streptococcus, Staphylococcus aureus infections, etc., but also able to alleviate some of the inflammation on the body.

Besides that, drinking water with fritillary can also be beneficial to urination, assisting the body to discharge the body's internal toxins, but also can improve the body's resistance. It is easy to see that drinking water with fishweed has many benefits for the body, can make the body healthier, is indeed a very worthwhile to try the health care method.

It is likely that some people are more attentive and careful, they will ask: can long-term use of fish and grass in water to drink?

Nutrition experts show that fishweed is cold, so it is not suitable for long-term with it to drink water, especially cold physical quality of people and their spleen and stomach weak people, pay more attention to, or it may be exacerbated to the situation of cold, in turn, will lead to the body of the harm is not good. Therefore, it is best to drink a few days on the slow down, every once in a while and then use it to drink water.