I made an analogy for shepherd's purse, like "licorice in vegetables". Its medicinal properties are so mild that even a one-month-old baby can use it.
The special feature of shepherd's purse is that it can not only dispel cold, but also dispel heat. Can dispel cold without getting angry, it can be said that cold and heat can kill people. It is a good helper to maintain the balance of cold and heat in human body, and can also strengthen the spleen and promote diuresis.
12 the function of shepherd's purse
Search Chen Han
Huangdi Neijing teaches us: "Winter is hurt by cold, and spring is bound to be warm." Winter is hurt by cold, and the cold will go deep into the human body and become "Chen Han". In spring, the yang rises, and the cold generates heat, which will cause excessive internal heat, colds and fever.
My mother told us from an early age that we must eat shepherd's purse, which can search for cold.
The word "search" is very vivid, indicating that it can find out the old cold of the human body. This is the biggest contribution of shepherd's purse to us.
Eliminating blood heat
Shepherd's purse is a good medicine for cold and heat. Many people don't know that cold constitution may also lead to blood fever. For example, people with stomach cold may also have liver and blood heat at the same time. People with liver-blood heat tend to have early gray hair.
Reducing stomach fire
People with heavy stomach fire have two characteristics, one is that they can't control their appetite, and the other is that their breath is heavy. Shepherd's purse not only reduces stomach fire, but also bitter cold does not hurt the stomach.
Prevent stomach trouble
Children often eat shepherd's purse, and it is not easy to get stomach trouble when they grow up.
Allergy prevention
In spring, women are prone to skin allergies, redness and peeling, which can be prevented by eating shepherd's purse often.
Clearing intestine fire
There is a fire in the small intestine, which is easy to urinate, and the urine is yellow. Sleeping at night will make you uneasy.
Regulate infant food accumulation
Shepherd's purse water is very peaceful and can be used by a one-month-old baby. Boil water with the whole shepherd's purse with roots, seeds and leaves.
Regulate blood pressure
Shepherd's purse has a certain effect on lowering blood pressure. Roots have a better effect.
Prevention of cataract
The common complication of diabetes is cataract, so it is suggested that diabetic patients often drink shepherd's purse water.
Prevention of lunar diseases
The puerpera must drink shepherd's purse water once in the second month, which is good for preventing postpartum fever. Take a shepherd's purse with you and drink it once.
Regulate gingival bleeding
Brushing teeth and bleeding gums are manifestations of spleen deficiency. You can often eat shepherd's purse to recuperate.
Prevent spring epidemics
Such as influenza, pink eye, excessive internal heat, skin allergy, etc.
How to choose shepherd's purse?
When picking shepherd's purse, pay attention to picking with roots, preferably with seeds, which has higher medicinal value.
The whole shepherd's purse can be taken home and dried for a whole year. Put some on the kitchen stove to avoid ants.
When you need to treat a disease, take a few plants and boil the water for seven or eight minutes, then you can drink soup. When there is no condition to cook, you can also make tea with dry products.
The first batch of shepherd's purse, which blooms and bears seeds after spring, has the best medicinal properties, because it stores the energy of the whole winter, and the weather is still cold and grows slowly in early spring, so it has the highest medicinal value. Shepherd's purse, which grows again in the future, grows fast and its medicinal value decreases.
Readers' wonderful comments: After drinking boiled water for three days, there is no phlegm in my throat.
Today, I found that after drinking boiled water for three days, the sputum left in my throat was gone because of acute pneumonia. I am so happy!