Fishwort is the dried watery part of perennial herb Houttuynia cordata of the family of Sambucus. Produced in China's Yangtze River basin south of the provinces. The name can be found in "Famous Doctor's Record". Tang Su Song said: "born in the wetlands, the valley shade can also be trailing, leaves like buckwheat and fat, purple and red stems, people in Jiangzuo good raw food, Guanzhong called minced vegetables, the leaf has a fishy smell, it is commonly known as: fishy grass.

The role of traditional Chinese medicine

Use

15 to 30g, should not be decocted for a long time; double the dosage of fresh products, decoction or pounded juice. Externally appropriate amount, pounding compress or decoction fumigation of the affected area.

Memory notes

Ming Dynasty Gong Tingxian's "medicinal properties of the song includes four hundred flavors": Houttuynia cordata is slightly cold, carbuncles should be served, fumigation of hemorrhoids, swelling and detoxification.

Traits

The stem of this product is flat cylindrical, twisted, 20-35cm long, 0.2-0.3cm in diameter; the surface is brownish-yellow with several longitudinal ribs, the nodes are obvious, and there is a remnant of fibrous roots on the lower nodes; the texture is brittle and easy to break. Leaves alternate, leaf blade folded and crumpled, heart-shaped when flattened, 3-5cm long, 3-4.5cm wide; apex acuminate, entire; upper surface dark yellow-green to dark brown, lower surface gray-green or gray-brown; petiole elongated, the base and stipules merged into a sheath-like. Spikes terminal, yellowish brown. Crushed with fishy odor, slightly astringent taste.

Characteristics

Houttuynia cordata is a perennial herb, 30-50 centimeters high, with a fishy odor throughout the plant; the stems are erect in the upper part, often purplish-red, creeping in the lower part, and rootlets are whorled at the nodes. Leaves alternate, thin papery, glandular dotted, especially abaxially, ovate or broadly ovate, 4-10 cm long, 2.5-6 cm wide, base cordate, entire, abaxially often purplish-red; palmate veins 5-7; petiole 1-3.5 cm long, glabrous; stipules membranous 1-2.5 cm long, the lower part of which merges with the petiole into a sheath. Flowers small, summer blooming, no perianth, arranged in spikes opposite the leaves, about 2 cm long; involucral bracts 4 pieces, born at the top of the common pedicel, white, petaloid, 1 ~ 2 cm long; 3 stamens, filaments long, the lower part and the ovary are united; the pistil consists of 3 united carpels. Capsule subglobose, 2-3 mm in diameter, apically dehiscent

Composition The whole herb contains volatile oil, the main components of the oil are methyl nonanone, lauric olefin, octanoic acid and lauric aldehyde, etc., with a special odor. In addition, it also contains irritating dipping vegetable alkali. Leaves contain quercetin. The flower and fruit spikes contain isoquercitrin.

Store in a dry place.

Pharmacological effects

1. Antipathogenic microorganisms, inhibit Staphylococcus aureus, Influenza bacteria, S. pneumoniae.

2. Diuretic effect, so that capillary dilation, increase renal blood flow and urine secretion, so also used for urinary tract infections of frequent urination astringent pain.

3. Enhance the role of the immune system, improve the phagocytosis of white blood cells in patients with chronic bronchitis.

4. Anti-tumor effects, inhibit Ehrlich ascites carcinoma by increasing CAMP in cancer cells.

[General dosage and usage]Three coins to one or two, decoction. Because this product contains volatile oil, it should not be decocted for a long time. Appropriate amount for external use

Functions Internally, it has diuretic, detoxification, anti-inflammatory, pus discharge and expectorant effects. According to recent research, this product decoction, powder, injection, bleeding on the liver has a good hemostatic effect, which is worth further study. According to the clinical experience of traditional Chinese medicine, it is effective in purulent inflammation such as lung abscess and carbuncle. Chewing the rhizome raw can relieve angina of coronary heart disease.

Cool Fishweed

Seasoning: salt, soy sauce, vinegar, sugar, chicken essence, red oil, dried chili peppers, pepper

Practice:

1, will be the old roots of fishweed, pinch off the whiskers, leaving the tender white roots and leaves, wash a few times with water, wash to remove the mud and sand, soaked in cold water for 10 minutes, fished out of the dry water and wait for use; you can also blanch it with boiling water.

2, the dried chili pepper cut into segments, put into warm oil and fried until crispy, send out the flavor, along with the oil into a bowl to be used;

3, will be put into the pot, into the salt, soy sauce, sugar, vinegar, chicken essence, red oil, pepper, fried chili oil mix, can be consumed, the mouth can be adjusted according to their own preferences and regional differences accordingly.

Features: spicy sweet and sour, light and refreshing, is a good summer table.

Tips: edible fish grass can only eat the white roots and leaves, consumption must be soaked in cold water to eliminate the odor.

Steamed chicken with fritillary

I. Ingredients:

1. Main ingredients: tender hen 1 (weighing about 1500 grams), 200 grams of fritillary.

2. Seasonings: refined salt, monosodium glutamate, pepper, green onion, ginger.

Two, method:

1. Chicken slaughtered, dehairing, guts, feet and claws washed, put into a pot of boiling water blanch, fish out and wash blood. Fishweed will be removed and washed and cut into pieces.

2. Take the soup pot 1, put people whole chicken, salt, ginger, onion, pepper and the right amount of water, steam until the chicken is cooked, and then add the fish grass, monosodium glutamate, a little steam can be out of the cage.

According to: this dish by the clearing of heat and detoxification, diuretic and swelling of the fish and warming of the chicken, tonifying the marrow and adding essence of the chicken, can provide the body with rich protein, fat, carbohydrates and other nutrients, with anti-inflammatory and detoxification, warming of the efficacy of qi. It can be used as an auxiliary therapeutic dish for patients suffering from lung abscess, weakness, edema, prolapse and other conditions.

Fish grass scrambled eggs

A, raw materials:

1. Main ingredients: 150 grams of fresh fish grass, 4 eggs.

2. Seasonings: refined salt, monosodium glutamate, green onion, vegetarian oil.

Second, the method:

1. Fish grass to remove impurities, wash and cut small sections, eggs knocked into the bowl and stirred.

2. Pan oil is hot, into the shallot stir incense, put people fish grass stir fry a few times, pour into the egg stir fry to block, add the right amount of water and salt, stir fry until the eggs are cooked and flavor, point into the monosodium glutamate pushed uniform into.

Press: this dish is by the fish grass and moistening the lungs and pharynx, clearing heat and detoxification, nourishing yin and moistening the dryness of the egg with the composition of the efficacy of clearing heat and detoxification, nourishing yin and moistening the lungs. It can be used as an auxiliary nutritional therapeutic dish for patients with pneumonia, lung abscess, carbuncle, bleeding from deficiency labor, redness of the eyes, hot diarrhea and other diseases.

Shredded pork with fishweed

I. Ingredients:

1. Main ingredients: 200 grams of pork, 100 grams of fishweed.

2. Seasonings: refined salt, monosodium glutamate, ginger, wet starch, lard, fresh soup.

Second, method:

1. Wash and shred the pork, put in a bowl with salt, wet starch and mix well. Fish grass to remove impurities cleaned and cut into sections. Salt, monosodium glutamate, wet starch, fresh broth into juice.

2. pot of oil burned to 60% hot, under the shredded meat fried loose, put the fish fry a few times, cooking into the good juice, stir fry a few times from the pan into the plate.

Press: this dish by the fish grass and nourishing yin and dry, warm in the benefit of the pork and become, can provide the body with rich nutrients, with anti-inflammatory detoxification, nourishing yin and the efficacy of the lungs. It is suitable for pneumonia, lung abscess, thin and dry cough, malnutrition, prolapse and other diseases.

Fish grass burned pig lung

I. Ingredients:

1. Main ingredients: 250 grams of pig lung, 100 grams of fresh fish grass.

2. Seasonings: cooking wine, refined salt, monosodium glutamate, soy sauce, sugar, green onion, ginger, lard.

Two, method:

1. Cut the pig lungs into pieces, wash off the blood many times. Fish grass to remove impurities wash and cut into pieces.

2. pot with lard hot, put people pig lungs stir-fry to, cooking wine, soy sauce stir-fry a few times, add green onions, ginger, salt and the right amount of water, burned until the pig lungs cooked, add sugar, cooking wine continue to burn until the pig lungs are cooked through, put into the fish grass burned to taste, point into the monosodium glutamate can be out of the pot.

According to: Fishweed and tonic lung moisturizing lung pig lung composition of this dish, with anti-inflammatory detoxification, nourishing yin moisturizing effect of the lung. Can be used as pneumonia, lung abscess, lung deficiency cough, coughing up blood and lung impotence and other conditions of patients with auxiliary therapeutic dishes to see eat.