Introduction: When it comes to dog tail grass, many friends living in rural areas are very familiar with it, dog tail grass is a very common weed in rural fields, is a plant that looks like a dog's tail, this plant is mainly distributed in subtropical and temperate regions.
It can also be said that in many rural areas, dogtail grass is a particularly inconspicuous plant, because dogtail grass is not only everywhere, but also easily affects the growth of crops.
For farmers, in order to ensure that crop growth is not affected, they will choose to use a hoe or some way to eradicate the dogtail grass.
But you may not know that the dogtail grass that people ignore in the countryside is a treasure if its practical use is correct, because everyone does not know that the national tail grass also has very good medicinal value.
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"Dog tail grass" is actually a treasure, and using it to boil water to drink may help solve these 4 problems
Speeds up wound healing
Because everyone's physical fitness is different, there are certain differences in the anticoagulant factors in the body, and when there is a problem with the anticoagulant factors, the healing speed of the wound will slow down, which will also affect the recovery of the disease.
At this time, you can choose to boil water with valley tail grass to drink, which can help promote blood circulation, and can also bring about the effect of activating blood and dispelling stasis, which can accelerate wound healing.
Clear liver and eyes
With the continuous progress and development of the times, a variety of electronic products have come to people's eyes, and electronic products are becoming more and more popular.
Due to the change of the times, many people will no longer do manual labor, but will sit in front of the computer to do mental work.
Long-term facing the computer will easily increase the discomfort of the eyes, especially if the body is myopic, it will be easy to cause problems like that in the eyes.
If you use your eyes regularly, you can use dogtail grass to boil water to drink, which can bring about the effect of clearing the liver and bright purpose, and can also help protect vision and alleviate visual fatigue.
Detoxification diuretic
Nowadays, people no longer require full food in terms of diet, but require abundant food, and many people have an irregular diet for a long time, which is easy to lead to some sub-health conditions in the body.
Many people especially love to eat some heavy food, which will easily cause some toxin problems in the body for a long time.
Drinking dogtail water properly can bring detoxification, diuresis, and accelerate the elimination of toxins and garbage.
Clear the heat and reduce the fire
Many people are now in a high-pressure environment for a long time, this kind of problem will make people appear sub-health phenomenon, now the weather is getting warmer, it is about to be summer, and in the summer many people will be prone to fire.
Perhaps many people have already had a strong liver fire situation, not only will it be easy to have a sore throat, but also easy to have mouth ulcers, dry mouth and dry tongue.
If you have such a problem, you can also use dogtail grass to boil water to drink, which can help clear the heat and reduce the fire, and bring about the elimination of the fire in the body.
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In addition to drinking, dog tail grass can also be applied externally and can also help us solve problems
Dogtail grass is actually a treasure, in addition to boiling water for internal use, it can also be used as an external medicine.
Dr. Fang Dazheng of the Department of Traditional Chinese Medicine and Traumatology of The Hospital of Integrated Traditional Chinese and Western Medicine in Jinan City said that dogtail grass can treat some synovitis diseases.
Patients with synovial inflammation due to rheumatic fever can be eaten with dogtail soup or applied to the affected area with dogtail. However, patients need to be cautious about using dogtail grass for treatment, and they should also use drugs rationally under the guidance of doctors before use, so that they can use symptomatic drugs and better help treatment.
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What are the precautions for dogtail soaking water?
Allergy people are banned: because there are some allergens in dogtail grass, so for friends who are prone to allergies, try not to drink multi-dimensional grass boiling water, if the wrong lady will easily bring sensitization problems, it will be easy to make the body uncomfortable;
Clean up: dogtail grass if used medicinally, must be thoroughly cleaned before it can be used, if not thoroughly cleaned, it is likely that there are bugs or drug residues inside, drinking such water will easily damage the body.
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For other cooking methods of dog tail grass, you may wish to try it
- Dog tail grass yam porridge
Prepare edamame kernels, yams, lean meats, carrots, brown rice, corn, and dogtail grass.
Wash the brown rice, soak the dogtail grass, and boil it into a soup.
Add yam, carrot and corn diced to the dog's tail brown rice soup that was previously boiled, add the remaining ingredients, and finally add a little salt to simmer for 5 to 10 minutes.
- Dog tail grass chicken soup
Prepare half a black chicken bone, dogtail grass, 5 jujubes, 10 grams of goji berries and the appropriate salt.
Wash the dog tail grass thoroughly, blanch the black chicken bones first, then fish out and set aside, prepare a large pot, first put the dog tail grass in the pot, add the appropriate water and simmer for 20 minutes.
Then add the remaining ingredients and bring to a boil over low heat, then season with the appropriate sesame oil and salt before finishing out of the pan.
05 Reading Extension: Are Wolf's Tail Grass and Dog's Tail Grass one thing?
Dogtail grass and wolftail grass are not one thing, they have the following differences:
Dogtail grass is linear lanceolate, while wolftail grass is linear, which means that dogtail grass is not the same thickness up and down, while wolftail grass is thick on the upper and lower sides.
In addition, the length of these two plants is also different, the dogtail grass is only 4 to 30 cm, while the wolf tail grass can reach 30 to 60 cm.
Conclusion: In general, although the dogtail grass is not very obvious, but as long as the use of the voucher can turn the grass into a treasure, in our daily life we can pay more attention to those plant herbs that can be seen everywhere, perhaps one day these inconspicuous plants can bring you great benefits.