Dendrobium flowers in water to drink to nourish the stomach and protect the kidney.
Dendrobium is sweet and slightly cold, good yin and fluid, the main into the stomach meridian, especially good to nourish the stomach yin, clear stomach heat, for the nourishment of the stomach yin of the main medicine, the main treatment of stomach yin insufficient thirst and dry throat, eat less dry vomiting, stomach and epigastric pain and discomfort, swollen gums, tongue and sores and other diseases. It can be used alone or in combination with maitong, shengdi, smallpox pollen and other products that nourish yin and clear heat. The Divine Husbandman's Classic of the Materia Medica says that it is "the main injury in the middle, remove paralysis, under the qi, supplement the five viscera deficiency, thin, strong yin; long service thick stomach and intestines, light body and prolong life". Modern research shows that dendrobium can inhibit gastric mucous membrane damage, regulate gastrointestinal motility and secretion of digestive juices and digestive enzymes, and improve intestinal flora imbalance.
Expanded Information:
Dendrobium is not only a valuable flower with high ornamental value, but also a famous "medicine", which is contained in "Shennong's Classic of the Materia Medica". Or dry stems into medicine, ranked in the Taoist canon "Daozang" recorded in the Chinese nine "immortal grass" of the first, to the raw stone, fine, expanding and slightly fleshy for the best.
References: