Talk about the mood of dog tail grass

When I was a child, many naughty children would weave dog tail grass into rabbits and tigers. Besides the ornamental value, the sleeping trough also has high medicinal value. It is a plant with homology of medicine and food in the eyes of traditional Chinese medicine. The medical book Compendium of Materia Medica has recorded the medicinal value of Setaria viridis.

Setaria viridis is a sweet plant, which can dispel dampness and reduce swelling, detoxify and diminish inflammation after taking medicine. With the improvement of national health awareness, more and more people realize the importance of Chinese herbal medicine. Many healthy people will go to the field to pick dog tail grass and dry it into dry dog tail grass, and insist on soaking it in water. What benefits does drinking dog's tail grass water bring to the body?

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"Dog tail grass" is actually a treasure. Using it to boil water may help to improve four problems.

(1) diuresis and detumescence

At present, with the rapid development of society, many people tend to maintain bad habits in their daily diet and behavior under this fast-paced lifestyle, such as frequently eating foods that are harmful to health or eating foods with substandard sanitary conditions.

If you don't pay attention to the safety of diet, it is easy to accumulate toxins in the body because of the acquisition of food. However, there are different degrees of pollution problems in the living environment now, which will inevitably lead to the residue of toxic substances in the body during life contact.

The dog tail grass can play a certain detoxification role. If you want to improve the basic metabolic function and speed up the elimination of excess harmful components in the body, you can soak some water with dog tail grass every day. It can achieve a good diuretic and detoxification effect and reduce the running burden of the body.

(2) Clearing liver and improving eyesight

Modern people rely more and more on various electronic products. They stare at the screen for at least ten hours every day, which will not only lead to eye damage and decreased vision, but also easily lead to eye problems, especially for people with poor vision, and the situation will become more and more serious.

For people who use computers or mobile phones for a long time, it is advisable to use dog tail grass to make soup or soak in water, which can effectively reduce eye fatigue and make their eyesight better. If your eyes are cloudy and your eyesight is not good, you can also drink some dog tail grass soaked in water to improve your eyesight.

(3) clearing away heat and toxic materials

Dog tail grass has the peculiar effect of clearing away heat and toxic materials. Sometimes in summer, the temperature will be very high. Moisture and hot air accumulate in human body, which will affect human health. At this time, you can try soaking the dog's tail grass in the water.

Symptoms of excessive accumulation of moisture and hot air, such as excessive internal heat and oral ulcer, can be improved. You can try to wash the green bristlegrass and then boil it in water for 30 minutes, which can achieve the effect of reducing fire and detoxifying. For people who feel sultry and irritable, it can also help to improve their discomfort.

(4) Runchang laxative

Constipation is a big problem that puzzles many people, not only the elderly, but also many young people, because of bad eating habits and sedentary lifestyle, constipation gradually appears.

Long-term overeating and irregular diet will aggravate the chances of spleen and stomach damage, induce gastrointestinal diseases such as gastritis, gastric ulcer and duodenal ulcer, affect fecal discharge and increase the burden around anus.

Setaria viridis has the effect of regulating the spleen and stomach. People who are often constipated should drink 1~2 cups of dog's tail grass water every day to adjust the problem of gastrointestinal disharmony, improve the acid-base balance of the spleen and stomach, promote gastrointestinal peristalsis and digestion, accelerate the excretion of feces, and play a role in moistening the intestines and relaxing the bowels.

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What should I pay attention to when drinking dog tail grass water?

1, don't drink after cooling.

Chinese medicine says: dog tail grass is a cold plant, so it's best to drink it while it's hot. Don't wait until it's cold, otherwise it will make a lot of wet and cold gas invade the body and increase the burden and pressure on the gastrointestinal tract. For people who are afraid of the cold, it is more important to drink some dog tail grass water properly.

2. Pay attention to alcohol consumption

The dog tail grass has the effect of clearing away heat and toxic materials, and has a good health care effect on the human body. Nevertheless, you should control your intake when frying in a pot.

Drinking a lot will accumulate the content of damp and cold gas in the body, affect the health of the stomach and make the body suffer from a bad cold. It is suggested that adults drink two cups of dog tail grass water every day.

3. Menstrual women should not drink alcohol.

Women in menstrual period, because of their weak constitution and decreased immunity, had better not drink dog's tail grass water, otherwise it will cause excessive accumulation of damp and cold gas in the body, which will affect the health of gastrointestinal tract, not conducive to menstrual blood outflow, but also aggravate dysmenorrhea symptoms and seriously affect normal life.

4. Pregnant women should not drink alcohol.

For pregnant women, due to special physical reasons, it is best not to drink cold herbs or ingredients. Blind drinking will only bring a huge burden to the body, but also affect the normal function of internal organs, which is not conducive to the growth of the fetus in the abdomen and causes great harm to the mother and fetus.

5. Don't touch people who are allergic.

People who are allergic to dandelion, after drinking dandelion water, local skin is red, hot and painful, and the whole body is hot. It is best not to drink high fever, otherwise it will induce serious allergic reactions.

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Setaria viridis can be used externally and can also effectively treat synovitis.

-Synovitis

Synovium is the internal structure of joint capsule, and it is a thin and soft connective tissue membrane. It can secrete synovial fluid to lubricate joints, provide rich nutrition for meniscus and articular cartilage, and excrete metabolites.

Synovitis refers to synovium, inflammation and osteoarthropathy induced around it. Common causes include trauma, tuberculosis, rheumatic diseases, joint degenerative diseases, infection and so on. After synovitis occurs, the severity of the disease will even directly affect the normal life, bringing great burden and pressure to the patient's body.

If synovitis is not treated in time in the early stage, it will also lead to joint stiffness, muscle atrophy and severe synovitis. Patients can be treated under the advice and guidance of doctors, and the dog tail grass can be properly crushed and applied to swollen joints.

The substance in dog tail grass can effectively relieve the symptoms of knee joint swelling and pain, once every morning and evening for 2~3 weeks, which can effectively excrete the water in the joint and relieve the pain.

You can stick the hot water bottle on the swollen joint with dog tail grass, and the treatment effect will be better.